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Paul O'BrienIn-depth analysis & opinion of startups, innovation, venture capital, & entrepreneurship. "This read right here is better than half the classes at most incubators and 1000% better than any entrepreneur course at a university." Nicolia Wiles - PRIMEPR
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Founders, Most of You Are Wrong About the MVP, and It’s Causing Your Failure
Ask ten founders to define the Minimum Viable Product and you’ll get ten variations of the same wrong answer: “the simplest version of my product I can launch.” That answer is why your startup is going to fail, and the proof of that claim i...
Unbreakable Oklahoma: America’s Proving Ground for the Startup Economy
Every region has a founding story. Oklahoma has about a dozen of them, and most of them, I found, involve catastrophe. Whether you credit the unique history of the state, the sorts of people who have always been drawn to this region, or jus...
What the Workforce Is Actually Telling Us (And Why Nobody’s Listening)
I have a reputation for telling people they’re wrong; not as a conversational icebreaker, exactly, but as a diagnostic tool. You sit down with a city official, a founder, a board member, a policy director, and within ten minutes you’re watc...
The Smörgåsbord Standard: Sweden Startups and Why the Rest of the World Should Be Taking Notes
My dad’s side is Irish, and I have leaned into that identity for most of my life. Then André Persson shared an article, and I started thinking about my mom’s side of the family; Swedish emigrants who brought something with them to the Unite...
The Stack AI Can’t Replace: Why Infrastructure is the Future of Work
Developed with AI by Bianca Schilling
Every few months someone publishes a new piece declaring that AI will automate everything, that code is no longer a profession, that “vibe coding” (the practice of describing what you want to an AI ass...
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