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Very excited for the future of collaboration between engineering and support! Check out Plain live on product hunt here: producthunt.com/posts/plain-2

What's stopping you from being 100% transparent with customers about their usage of your product? Gary Lin at Explo shares why radical transparency is critical here: allisonpickens.substack.com/p/how-transpar…

Moving to a usage-based pricing model doesn't just mean changing your pricing -- it means changing basically very aspect of your Go-to-Market. Check out my convo w/ Kevin Liu at Metronome here:

Outdated frameworks for managing career growth: * Annual promotion cycles * The path to promotion requiring ICs to become managers * Forced ranking of employees New model: Just-in-Time Career Progression I learned a ton from Barbra Gago at Pando! allisonpickens.substack.com/p/career-growt…

Thinking about trimming your software budget? Andrej Safundzic at Lumos offers a helpful perspective: allisonpickens.substack.com/p/who-should-c…

This framework for branding *strongly* resonates

A new founder program - a common app for pre-seed - from Afore Capital allows founders to pitch many investors all at once. I am excited to participate, and innovate alongside Afore. Founders and investors -> learn more and apply here ctt.ec/mSMUe+

Allison Pickens' Newsletter: Is Your Market Growing Fast Enough? allisonpickens.substack.com/p/is-your-mark…

Allison Pickens' Newsletter: Stomach in Knots about Your Strategic Plan? Some Pro Tips from Netlify. allisonpickens.substack.com/p/stomach-in-k…

What's the latest in customer success? My take here: allisonpickens.substack.com/p/whats-the-la…

Here's a framework I used for evaluating my executives, built with my favorite CEO coach allisonpickens.substack.com/p/how-to-evalu…

One of the best habits I've ever developed is to get angry, rather than sad, when things don't go well. That fire in my belly is what has gotten me through hard times. Get back up and get it!

Fun when you're waiting in a Zoom and there are more AIs here than people :)

New Post: Traits I look for in founders: nakulmandan.com/blog/2024/trai… (Also, two posts in two weeks after 4+ years of no blogging!!)