Startups

“Good engineering management” is a fad

As I get older, I increasingly think about whether I’m spending my time the right way to advance my career and my life. This is also a...

Enshitification – Feld Thoughts

I’ve been a long-time Cory Doctorow fan. His new book Enshitification is delicious. Yup – I understand that a shit emoji doesn’t inspire deliciousness.Now...

Google's upgraded Nano Banana Pro AI image model hailed as 'absolutely bonkers' for enterprises and users

Infographics rendered without a single spelling error. Complex diagrams one-shotted from paragraph prompts. Logos restored from fragments. And visual outputs so sharp with so...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 2: The Transship Story: A Journey from Cold Storage to AI-Powered Shipping with Amit Hasak

SummaryIn this episode of the Fuel Podcast, Grace Gill sits down with...

Steve Blank The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed

Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).  The DoW has pivoted...

How Victoria Moll Built a Six-Figure Brand in a Small Niche

Here at SPI, we talk a lot about how the riches are in the niches—and Victoria Moll of Contempo Coding is living, breathing proof...

What Is a Referral Rewards Program and How Does It Work?

A Referral Rewards Program is a strategic marketing tool designed to encourage your existing customers to bring in new clients. By offering rewards, such...

Which Ones Actually Ship a Decent Site?

AI website builders promise a lot: “Describe your business in a sentence and we’ll generate a beautiful, high-converting site in 30 seconds.” Sometimes you actually...

The Airbnbs

December 2020To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb.What was special...

Hollywood demos vs. real-world demos

There are two types of AI demos: the “Hollywood demo,” which is highly produced, polished, and looks pretty perfect; and the “real-world demo,” which...

Collaboration sucks – by Charles Cook

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together”This phrase will slowly kill your company and I’m...

The Bear Roars: Dan and Brad

I recently joined Dan Caruso on The Bear Roars podcast, and our conversation brought one thing into focus: we’re living through a shift that’s...

Terminal-Bench 2.0 launches alongside Harbor, a new framework for testing agents in containers

The developers of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating the performance of autonomous AI agents on real-world terminal-based tasks, have released version 2.0 alongside...

The Startup Junkies Podcast | 27: De ONG a Startup: El viaje emprendedor de Diego Angarita

SummaryEn este inspirador episodio de Querido Emprendedor, Ignacio Balderrama conversa con Diego...

Steve Blank It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy

I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing tactics on how...

How to Start a YouTube Channel in 2024

I’ve built two successful YouTube channels, one in the area of business and entrepreneurship, and the other related to my passion for collecting Pokémon...