“Nobody knows you. You’re a start-up.” While it may sound discouraging for aspiring start-up founders, former Waze CEO Noam Bardin stresses the importance of knowing that big companies won’t care about your business, so it’s not worth it to try and figure out how to counter them. The most important thing to worry about, he says, are your customers; he speaks from personal experience that neglecting their needs to focus on competitors will cost you heavily.
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Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
