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How color vision actually works", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/color-wheels/", "published_at": "2024-03-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-179005cf463d", "title": "Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/perseverance/", "published_at": "2024-03-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-1790060c1c32", "title": "The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/pattern-seeking-fallacy/", "published_at": "2024-03-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-1790069e445c", "title": "AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/ai-startups/", "published_at": "2024-03-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-179006a3bc9f", "title": "How startups beat incumbents", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/startup-beats-incumbent/", "published_at": "2024-02-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-179006fe496a", "title": "Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/ab-testing-statistics/", "published_at": "2024-02-18T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-179007c2645e", "title": "Easy to criticize, hard to create", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/criticize-create/", "published_at": "2024-02-11T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-1790084ed0a6", "title": "Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/investment/", "published_at": "2024-02-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-1790089db89b", "title": "Pick one and own it", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/one-benefit/", "published_at": "2024-01-28T08:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900979a999", "title": "The \"errors\" that mean you're doing it right", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/good-problems-to-have/", "published_at": "2024-01-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-179009dc8131", "title": "How to measure the accuracy of forecasts", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/forecast/", "published_at": "2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900a46a9f0", "title": "Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/icp-ideal-customer-persona/", "published_at": "2024-01-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900b3b45b7", "title": "\"ROI\" is the wrong way to sell your product", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/roi-selling/", "published_at": "2023-12-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900b7309ba", "title": "The roadmap to Product/Market Fit (PMF)… maybe", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/product-market-fit-formula/", "published_at": "2023-12-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900bfd8648", "title": "The unfortunate math behind consulting companies", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting/", "published_at": "2023-12-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900c942b81", "title": "How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10)", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/top-10/", "published_at": "2023-12-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900d579396", "title": "Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/change/", "published_at": "2023-12-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900d8c7599", "title": "Quarterly strategic planning using the fairytale structure", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/strategic-planning/", "published_at": "2023-11-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900df939fd", "title": "Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/reputation/", "published_at": "2023-11-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900e4922e7", "title": "You're a real company when…", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/real-company/", "published_at": "2023-11-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a07d5d-7e4f-720e-b7d7-17900f236c3b", "title": "Product/Market Fit (PMF): Experience & Data", "url": "https://longform.asmartbear.com/product-market-fit/", "published_at": "2023-11-05T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?original ↗

19 Jul 2026

Lost confidence original ↗

21 Jun 2026

Worrying is self-fulfilling; what to do instead original ↗

24 May 2026

How to hire people who are better than you original ↗

19 Apr 2026

Maybe not so much with the "optimization"original ↗

22 Mar 2026

Strategic choices: When both options are good original ↗

22 Feb 2026

A compass is not a map original ↗

25 Jan 2026

Creating space original ↗

4 Jan 2026

2025

Scaling by "delegation" isn't good enough original ↗

7 Dec 2025

Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto original ↗

9 Nov 2025

When being an "expert" is harmful original ↗

28 Sept 2025

Your target market isn't demographic original ↗

7 Sept 2025

Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing?original ↗

17 Aug 2025

Max MRR: Your growth ceiling original ↗

27 Jul 2025

Specificity: A weapon of mass effectiveness original ↗

13 Jul 2025

Ruthless prioritization while the dog pees on the floor original ↗

22 Jun 2025

Bootstrapped CPC rule of thumb: ARPU/25 original ↗

8 Jun 2025

More or less original ↗

1 Jun 2025

Rude Q&A: The constructive devil's advocate original ↗

25 May 2025

When customers buy your competitor's product… and then buy yours original ↗

18 May 2025

Invention is Drudgery original ↗

11 May 2025

Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy original ↗

4 May 2025

How to get customers who love you even when you screw up original ↗

27 Apr 2025

SSEBITDA⁠--A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies original ↗

20 Apr 2025

Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money?original ↗

13 Apr 2025

Sometimes never compete on price original ↗

6 Apr 2025

How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts original ↗

30 Mar 2025

All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful original ↗

23 Mar 2025

Reframing "Freemium" by charging the marketing department original ↗

16 Mar 2025

The wrongness of relativism original ↗

9 Mar 2025

"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough original ↗

2 Mar 2025

Why it's nice to compete against a large, profitable company original ↗

23 Feb 2025

How to select your first marketing channel original ↗

16 Feb 2025

Our unhealthy fixation with emulating #1 original ↗

9 Feb 2025

The Startup Drake Equation original ↗

2 Feb 2025

On the (un?)importance of design original ↗

26 Jan 2025

"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies original ↗

19 Jan 2025

The Important Thing⁠--powerful enough to override all your deficiencies original ↗

12 Jan 2025

Explore vs Execute original ↗

5 Jan 2025

2024

A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale original ↗

29 Dec 2024

When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview original ↗

22 Dec 2024

Solving the Low-Budget Online Marketing Dilemma original ↗

15 Dec 2024

Brittle Points: How to make companies robust original ↗

8 Dec 2024

Scars original ↗

1 Dec 2024

Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation original ↗

24 Nov 2024

p-Hacking your A/B tests original ↗

17 Nov 2024

A life-changing challenge guided by Pascal's Wager original ↗

10 Nov 2024

No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric original ↗

3 Nov 2024

Tech Support is sales original ↗

27 Oct 2024

The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies original ↗

20 Oct 2024

You're a little company, now act like one original ↗

13 Oct 2024

Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done original ↗

6 Oct 2024

Pivot Points original ↗

29 Sept 2024

The Code is your Enemy original ↗

22 Sept 2024

Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds original ↗

15 Sept 2024

Legacy original ↗

8 Sept 2024

Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund original ↗

1 Sept 2024

Profitable on day one!original ↗

25 Aug 2024

The mid-market briar patch original ↗

18 Aug 2024

Individual efficiency vs administrative efficiency original ↗

11 Aug 2024

Double your productivity without more work or stress original ↗

4 Aug 2024

"Authentic" is dead. And so is "is dead."original ↗

28 Jul 2024

How much of success is luck?original ↗

21 Jul 2024

How annual pre-pay creates an infinite marketing budget original ↗

14 Jul 2024

Procrastinate for Success!original ↗

7 Jul 2024

Not disruptive, and proud of it original ↗

30 Jun 2024

"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer original ↗

23 Jun 2024

Being who you are, while becoming better original ↗

16 Jun 2024

The Lindy Effect on startup potential original ↗

9 Jun 2024

When being "first" is not a competitive advantage original ↗

2 Jun 2024

Disentangling the three languages: Customers, Product, Business original ↗

26 May 2024

Rare things become common at scale original ↗

19 May 2024

Hello, I'm 1074018628 original ↗

12 May 2024

Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF original ↗

5 May 2024

Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and"original ↗

28 Apr 2024

It's a torturous chaos until it isn't original ↗

21 Apr 2024

Learn by Copy original ↗

14 Apr 2024

The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness original ↗

7 Apr 2024

Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy original ↗

31 Mar 2024

Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works original ↗

24 Mar 2024

Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools original ↗

17 Mar 2024

The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy original ↗

10 Mar 2024

AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different original ↗

3 Mar 2024

How startups beat incumbents original ↗

25 Feb 2024

Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters original ↗

18 Feb 2024

Easy to criticize, hard to create original ↗

11 Feb 2024

Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile original ↗

4 Feb 2024

Pick one and own it original ↗

28 Jan 2024

The "errors" that mean you're doing it right original ↗

21 Jan 2024

How to measure the accuracy of forecasts original ↗

14 Jan 2024

Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected original ↗

7 Jan 2024

2023

"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product original ↗

31 Dec 2023

The roadmap to Product/Market Fit (PMF)… maybe original ↗

24 Dec 2023

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies original ↗

17 Dec 2023

How many things should there be? (Hint: Not 10)original ↗

10 Dec 2023

Change: Damned if you do, damned more if you don't original ↗

3 Dec 2023

Quarterly strategic planning using the fairytale structure original ↗

26 Nov 2023

Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine original ↗

19 Nov 2023

You're a real company when…original ↗

12 Nov 2023

Product/Market Fit (PMF): Experience & Data original ↗

5 Nov 2023