Right now, I’m in a five week class called Divinations Market Analysis Workshop offered by the business strategy writer and founder of my favorite new media company, Every. I’ve mentioned Nathan Baschez and his company enough times in this newsletter that you’d be forgiven for assuming I’m on their marketing team. I’m just a superfan. I love how clearly…

I’m taking a class from Every called Divinations Market Analysis Workshop taught by one of my favorite writers and business thinkers, Nathan Baschez. This post is about what I learned in week two of the class. Miss week one? I got ya right here…

I’m back from Copenhagen where I spent a week marveling at how beautiful and prosperous the city is. I went for a run on the sidewalks and streets laughing with a thousand people on bikes while we all shielded our eyes from the rain. Also welcome new Nordic readers! I’m so happy to have met you. The Nordic Fintech Week conference was amazing…

Last week’s class in the Divinations Market Analysis Workshop was heady. The main topic was The Law of Conservation of Modularity. It’s a mouthful to say and was more than I was able to wrap my head around during the 90 minutes of class time. So, when I sat down to write today’s entry (number 4 in this 5 part series), I needed to do some research. So of…

This is the fifth and final Divinations Market Analysis Workshop post. If you’ve been reading them, you have powerful new tools for thinking about how products fit into markets. In this post I’ll be explaining the 7 Powers concept by Hamilton Helmer, lifelong business strategist and occasional Stanford business school professor. And, as I’ve been doing i…