This is part 2 of our guide on how to build a strong understanding of blockchain, protocols, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and other blockchain-native concepts. Our previous post covered lessons #1 to #3. In this article, we continue with lessons #4 to #10. About the authors: Georgiana Mirea was SVP Product…

Todays’s headline hit hard: “DeFi Attack Drains $130M From CREAM Finance!”. This event certainly raises plenty of questions. What are the risks to investors, going forward? Was this attack an ominous milestone for the crypto currency sector; an example of a new threat? Was what happened a crime, like theft…

How will we recruit some of the best and brightest PMs to work on blockchain projects? What roles will they play? I wrote this to help blockchain projects connect to product managers interested in joining the blockchain movement. As we know, us human beings find it hard to choose something…

Dan Ariely and NFX wrote an in-depth post about the pitfall of assuming user behavior that simply does not match reality. Read on for 3 Ways your startup can avoid failure. Most startups look back in hindsight and realize they held onto poor assumptions about user behavior for too long. …

A recent (June 26) McKinsey & Company survey of executives found that 80 percent of employees are expected to return to the workplace by September. While initiatives are well underway for physical measures — such as separating desks — companies are lagging in the identifying and isolating potentially infectious people…

A set of reminders for starting a new role in a new start up. During my 15-year career in product leadership roles in start ups I’ve often had the chance to reflect on what I’d do differently or better next time. Sometimes this reflection has come a few years after…

What’s behind the magic of a search engine? I deepened my knowledge of search engines, with the goal of being able to explain it to someone who is curious about it, but not in the weeds of technology — like my kids or my parents. What is a search engine supposed to do? There’s a lot of publicly…

Solving the biggest issues in the future of work. A recent breakfast discussion with Dean Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Harvard Business School, inspired this article. The harsh truth is that if you are an employee, you are either already obsolete — and won’t get a coveted role — or you are going to become obsolete in that role…

We all know someone who was inspired to aim higher, dramatically change field or acquire new skills. Our economy will need vast amounts of this behavior. All trends around the “future of work” require human beings to be open to more dramatic change, more frequently. Employers have job needs which could be filled, if only someone would be willing to re-imagine or re-skill to fit the need. Assume that (1) new jobs are emerging, (2) training…