Instagram Ads are the New Sears Catalog

By Jacob Flanders on

... 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

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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] thread to…

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

By Jacob Flanders on

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] thread to…

Quick Take Aways From Michael Mayer on Invest Like the Best

By Jacob Flanders in quick-take-aways on

Some thoughts (not necessarily endorsements!) that I took away from Michael Mayer – Pseudonymous Social Capital and Bottomless Coffee – [Invest Like the Best, EP.123] [http://investorfieldguide.com/bottomless/] (overcast [https://overcast.fm/+Lzu20uJN4]) * Remove the lowest quality [media | food | habit] from your "diet", continually * Make the real world legible to…