Blog

Founders

• Dear Advisor: Can I just survey my customers to help me decide what to build next? (July 2021)

• Dear Advisor: How do I get clean data? (June 2021)

• Dear Advisor: I’d like to make data-driven decisions. Where do I start? (May, July 2021)

• Dear Advisor: I have a start-up idea, what should I do next? (September 2020, March, May -- August 2021)

• Dear Advisor: Who should be my first data hire? (April 2021)

• What are the most common pre-seed and seed-stage pitch deck mistakes? (December 2020)

• Dear Advisor: My MVP demos are not converting (November 2020)

• Product Market Fit Roadmap in 6 Parts (November 2020)

• Resources for Extending your Runway (July 2020, updated monthly through April 2021)

• Dear Advisor: What metrics should I be thinking about? (September 2020)

• Dear Advisor: Should I pivot? (August 2020)

• Dear Advisor: How do I avoid the biggest data/AI/ML mistakes others make? (June 2020, updated August 2020, September 2020 + April 2021)

• How to Deliver Business Impact with Data (January 2020, updated May 2020, June 2020, October 2020 + April 2021)

• 5 Aspects of your Business you Need to Track Today to make any Data-Driven Decisions (October 2019)

Data Professionals

• ML model in production is doing worse than locally (January 2021, updated February 2021)

• How to get your Resume to Stand out? (October 2020)

• Companies still Hiring during COVID (May 2020, updated monthly through April 2021)

• 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Considering a Continuing Education Program (April 2020, updated June 2020, September 2020 + April 2021)

• How to Run a Jupyter Notebook in a Virtual Environment (March 2020)

• Four "R"s of Machine Learning Software Development (February 2020, updated December 2020)

• Iterative Development of Machine Learning Models (January 2020, updated June 2020)

• How to Deliver Business Impact with Data (January 2020, updated May 2020, June 2020, October 2020 + April 2021)

• How to Break into your First Data Role as a Non-Analytics Manager (February 2021)

• How to Break into your First Data Role: Tips to Tackling the Cold Start Problem (October 2019, updated May + September 2020)

Freelancers

• What do I Need to Know to Start my own Business? (December 2019, updated June 2020)

• Why my strategy calls are NDA-free (August 2021)

Leadership

• Who should be my first data hire? (April 2021)

• How to Break into your First Data Role as a Non-Analytics Manager (February 2021)

Project Management

• Column: Your Business Has Lots of Ideas on What To Work On. Here’s How To Decide on What’s Next (April 2021)

• How I "built, measured, and learned" that long-distance running is for me (March 2021)

• How to “build, measure, learn” to see if your startup needs to pivot OR improve its product (March 2021)

• Dear Advisor: Should I pivot? (Or what is "build, measure, learn"? (August 2020)

• How to Prioritize when Everything is High Priority: the Data-Driven Approach (April 2020)

• Product Market Fit Roadmap in 6 Parts (November 2020)

Please see Publications for links to peer-reviewed publications and pre-prints.