Lessons from a Startup Life
Doug LevinAI and enterprise adoption, governance and trust, founder and board perspectives, and the evolving dynamics of VC, PE, blockchain, and crypto—offered through a free-plus-subscription model with select essays free and deeper, real-time analysis for sub's.
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"Great Covers": The List (today) and Spotify Playlist
I wanted to wrap this blog post and project up before the weekend hits so you can dive right in. Here are the suggestions:
Finding the perfect cover is its own art form. You start by sifting through the songs you genuinely love—the origina...
Calling All Readers: The Greatest Covers List
One of the unexpected pleasures of writing the Lessons blog has been discovering just how musically fluent, opinionated, and deeply knowledgeable so many readers are. Every time I write about music, the responses arrive quickly — thoughtful...
Today’s Startup Badass, and are they Thriving?
The piece argues that the startup ecosystem has drifted from rewarding genuine resilience, competence, and conviction toward rewarding optics and performance, while true “badasses” still thrive in hard, high-stakes domains where skill and i...
Calling All Readers: The Greatest Covers List
What began as a reader suggestion for a “greatest covers” list evolved into a collaborative project exploring what truly makes a cover song transformative — from reinvention and emotional depth to versions that rival or even surpass the ori...
The Suburbs Become the Middle Layer of the AI Stack
This week, Nvidia, smart-panel startup Span, and major homebuilder PulteGroup announced a project built around “XFRA nodes” — compact AI-processing units designed to turn suburban homes into a decentralized cloud.
Rather than relying on a...
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Strategic, candid startup insights from Doug Levin—HBS Fellow, 4x CEO, Black Duck founder. Cutting through AI hype for founders, operators, investors & directors who want to know what actually matters.
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