There’s been plenty written about cold email strategies, so we’ll keep this one short. Below are three tweets that pretty much captures the best practice on cold emailing anyone. A few things to note before you start cold emailing people: It’s completely okay if you don’t hear back. Don’t take anything personally. Be intentional. Have…
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How retail brands are revising their plans due to COVID
The pandemic has pushed many retailers to their heels. It goes to show that operating in a highly constrained environment can bring great ideas to life; there’s a reason why good startups don’t raise too much capital and maintain their agility in a resource constraint environment. McKinsey wrote a great piece on retailers adapting to a…
On Failure
Success, in a vacuum, is the worst teacher. Real success is a result of trying something again and again and again, and then finally, making it work. Because success requires a feedback loop, it makes sense to then reflect on the opposite of success: failure. In school, we’re taught to avoid mistakes and mourn at…
Understanding the market in the midst of COVID, social unrest and tweet storms
We’re in the midst of a pandemic, ~40M people are unemployed, there’s social unrest on the streets, there are tweet storms and live videos coming from every direction… yet the stock market is trading at an all time high. S&P 500 has erased it’s COVID losses and is back to same levels when we started…
Q1 state of eCommerce and Amazon
Q1 2020 paved the way for eComm. The latest U.S. Census report shows Q1 eComm was only 11.8% of all retail sales ($160.3B eComm of total $1.36T of all retail sales). Amazon net sales in North America (excluding AWS business) was ~$46B. Amazon earned ~$21.3M per hour in North America. Amazon is ubiquitous and these numbers are…
Fuel Check. Pause and Reflect.
2020 will be a long chapter in the history books. There’s a global pandemic that activated quarantine measures for 4B+ people around the world, 41M+ are unemployed in the US and there’s civil unrest… and it’s just the beginning of June. As companies, organizations, teams and individuals juggle macro events with their own personal and…
Guide To Having Virtual 1:1s
Work From Anywhere (WFA) will become ubiquitous across organizations that have flexibility for remote work. We’re already seeing this happen with Twitter, Shopify and many others. Leaders across various companies will have to adapt to a new management style; one that focuses away from in-person meetings and whiteboard sessions to virtual discussions. Managers will have individual contributors (ICs)…
How To Avoid Burnout While WFH
In physics, we learned that energy can’t be created or destroyed. It can only be transferred from one form to another. More formally, this is known as the first law of thermodynamics. This topic is particularly relevant in the midst of COVID-19 as people are adjusting to working from home (WFH). I’ve historically been very…
Two Types of Businesses
There are two types of businesses: 1) cost driven and 2) value driven. But almost all businesses crave both. A customer doesn’t walk into a Whole Foods expecting to save a lot of money; they’re value-driven. They walk-in with a desire to have a premium grocery shopping experience and to shop for the highest quality…
A Simple Career Framework
In the midst of COVID-19, many people are searching for what they want to pursue next. As you’re reflecting, I’d encourage a simple model; one that focuses not just on you, but also the organization that you’re applying to. This framework is a 360 degree view of how you can approach your next opportunity. It’s…