Category: Wedlift
What Do Wedding Planners Actually Do? Wedding planners are the behind the scenes heroes who make sure your big day doesn’t turn into a stress-fest. Think of them as your personal wedding project manager: they help you define your style, build a realistic budget, find and negotiate with vendors (photographers, florists, caterers, DJs you name it), and pull together all the small pieces that make a wedding feel cohesive. On the day itself, they keep things on track: coordinating the schedule, dealing with any surprises, and making sure your vision becomes…
There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up. Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. Two-fucking-billion! What a disaster! Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash. It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t…
As a founder, product lead at Pinterest and PM for a couple products at Google, as well as a growth partner for Initialized Capital, I’ve seen many product teams struggle to grow. Many products start out with a bang. Some find product-market fit with sustained growth. A few have gone through spurts of hyper-growth. But more often than not, I’ve seen most of them linger then fizzle. “Founders launch their product, wonder why it isn’t growing like gangbusters and then immediately try to fix their growth problem.” They turn to growth…
Enterprise applications are complex — there is an insane amount of information that is to be displayed that contains data from various sources, modules and users. There are complex graphs, usage patterns, and lists of data that need to be skimmed through before one can make sense of what the console is getting at. “The biggest challenge with designing enterprise applications is the lack of examples of patterns that work or don’t work in specific scenarios.” Since most enterprise applications contain sensitive data pertaining to the company, there are very few examples out…