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#206 Ricky Ho: How Do You Know a Factory Is Any Good?

Every supplier on earth says it makes high quality, which means the claim carries no information. Ricky Ho's fix borrows from Google: rank a factory by the customers it already ships to.
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#205 Adnan Malik: Who Actually Picks the Software Your Company Buys?
The HR manager buys the HR system, the project manager buys the project tool, and none of them were trained to evaluate technology. Adnan Malik was that…
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#204 Ashley Aruffo: Most Big Companies Can't Name Their Own Suppliers
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#203 Tom Kubiniec: He Never Owned a Gun. That’s Why His Weapon Racks Won.
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#202 Ben Rennie: AI Didn’t Remove the Struggle. It Rescheduled It.
Where AI leaves the design profession isn’t that the "hard part" disappeared. It’s that the hard part moved to a place most of us weren’t planning to…
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#201 - Logan Yonavjak: How to use A.I. to cultivate your companies leaders
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#199 Rob Walling: 90% of Startups Should Never Raise Venture Capital
His 1-9-90 rule says only 1% of startups should raise VC — and that the rest of us have been brainwashed by what he calls the venture industrial…
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#205 Adnan Malik: Who Actually Picks the Software Your Company Buys?
The HR manager buys the HR system, the project manager buys the project tool, and none of them were trained to evaluate technology. Adnan Malik was that…
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#201 - Logan Yonavjak: How to use A.I. to cultivate your companies leaders
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#198 - Marcelo Calbucci: How to write compelling strategy narratives that get buy-in
AI can write your business plan in 30 seconds. Marcelo Calbucci — author of The PRFAQ Framework, six-time founder, ex-Amazon — argues that’s exactly…
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Taste Maker #2. Marcelo Calbucci: The Document That Talked Him Out of His Own Startup
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#195 Drew Bridewell: The Rise of the Design Operator
The Craft Got Designers Respect. The Understanding the P&L Gets Them in the Room.
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#192 Khurram Mir: If QA Is Blocking Your Launch, It Might Be Your Fault
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