Ellen’s Blog

How to be unreasonable (what’s next).

Six months ago (4/14/17) I met Paul Biggar for the first time.

HBS Founders

One of the most fun things about having gone to HBS is that I get a lot of private questions about HBS’s role in the tech community.

“That good”

The most important thing a CEO does in a startup is building the right team. You hire accordingly: a set of interviews you do, qualities…

How to Read A Lot

Every year when I do my year in review, I get the question “how do you read so much?”

2017 Book Recommendations

Every year I write a year in review post. Usually the book recommendations overwhelm everything else, so this year…

Learning in Product

Too much Product content still relates to “what is “Product” (ugh), “how to get into Product” (ok cool, but then what), and “do we really need Product anyway?” (double ugh).

We lack content on “how to get better” and I think it’s because everyone does it differently…

Do you need to fail to build Product?

One of those cases I think back often from HBS is Compass Box Whiskey.

Networking for Introverts

If you get hives every time someone says “networking” this is for you.