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How to Design an Org for Founder Mode
Examples from Apple, Airbnb, Shopify, and Nvidia
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Why Did DoorDash Win?
Three stories, all of which are true.
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The Leaky Bucket Theory of Network Effects
A framework for understanding the strength of a marketplace’s network effect
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Playing Game One
A two-minute career manifesto for ambitious people
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How to be Strategic
The actual nature of strategic work, and how to become great at it
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When to join a startup
Learning to assess risk will help you maximize the economic outcome of joining a startup
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The Best Way to Drive Demand in Marketplaces is Hiding in Plain Sight
This is a joint post by Casey Winters and Dan Hockenmaier.
Published on Casey Accidental • 
Why growth models fail
Why most growth models don't get adopted, how to avoid this fate, and a template model to get you started.
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How to describe your business as an equation
And why you don’t fully understand your business until you can
Published on Lenny's Newsletter • 
The Two Paths of a Manager
Diagnosing and course correcting two of the most common stumbling blocks for new managers
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How to Choose a Startup
And why so many people get it almost entirely backwards
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Generalist Disease
What elite professionals get wrong about career growth
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The Next Trillion Dollar Marketplace Will Put SKUs on Services
Why service marketplaces aren’t scaling and how they might get unstuck
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The Concept That Explains Everything About Marketplaces
Understanding transaction costs will help you understand where marketplaces will succeed, what kind of marketplace to build, and how to price them.
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Dan Hock's Essays
Dan Hock's Essays
The strategy and tactics of growing startups and growing your career. Less frequent, more rigorous essays.

Dan Hock's Essays

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