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Faris Zacina•Feb 16, 2020•Product Operations & Longevity

Taking action is essential when building digital products. This article explores how entrepreneurs navigate complexity, prioritize cross-functional input, and iterate quickly to turn hypotheses into truth. Learn why embracing action beats analysis paralysis in product development.

Faris Zacina•Feb 10, 2020•Founder Playbook

Open office spaces are often blamed for reduced productivity and team stress. This article challenges that view, showing how open spaces can work when paired with diverse environments for focus, bonding, and results. Discover how to design spaces that support different team activities.

Faris Zacina•Feb 6, 2020•Founder Playbook

Entrepreneurship is the best way to move societies and economies forward. It’s the vessel of creation and progress. Entrepreneurs are the makers that create new value and distribute it across society. They create a balance between makers and takers. If we look at things from a perspective of individualism we conclude a startup is about two founders and a bunch of people making money. That is a limited perspective. By creating my company Ministry of Programming we created dozens of millions o

Faris Zacina•Jan 27, 2020•Founder Playbook

There is a trendy opinion that all meetings are useless. That is one more example of destructive “binary thinking”. Very few things in business and life can be classified as absolutely good or bad. If a meeting has a clear purpose and objective, as well as outputs/outcomes, it is certainly useful. Most meetings don’t have the above, so they are useless. Meetings to communicate and discuss things are very often a waste of time and can be substituted by an e-mail exchange or a slack message.

Dino Trnka•Dec 2, 2019•Founder Playbook

There are plenty of reasons why people network with each other. It allows you to meet new people, to learn, to teach, maybe just to look cooler. More than anything, it allows you to collaborate on something bigger, with people you like. But how to prove that you’re an expert in what you do, and therefore worthy of a collaboration? Embrace your skill set We’re so used to our own skills that we sometimes assume everyone has them. This makes us have tunnel vision, thinking we’re only capable of