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How Much Technology Does Your Startup Need Now?

By Jacob Flanders on 20 Oct 2021

I often see parallels between building tech for a startup and shipping ports. Do you need a beach landing craft or a container port?…

Instagram Ads are the New Sears Catalog

By Jacob Flanders on 07 Jul 2020

... and product managers are the new Sears Buyers. Sears used to have an army of buyers going out into the world and finding or creating new products to introduce to the american consumer.  They would then pitch these products via the sears catalog. [imagine a picture of the Sears catalog…

HN Who is Hiring May 2019 - Health Care and Life Sciences

By Jacob Flanders on 07 May 2019

Hi, I'm Jacob, President of Flybridge VI [http://flybridge.vi/], a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences. From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797594]…

HN Who is Hiring April 2019 - Health Care and Life Sciences

By Jacob Flanders on 05 Apr 2019

Hi, I'm Jacob, President of Flybridge VI [http://flybridge.vi], a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences. From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19543940]…