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Development without consumer input…
“But they did all this work without the basic proof that this business made sense to consumers.” This very well-stated article in Bolt.io states one of the biggest issues I see in startups today – an idea without a market. It’s a great idea, but no one wants to buy it or certainly not at that price. It’s a supply and demand curve that never swipe right for each other. What Un-CEO features are in play here – mostly I’d say confirmation bias. No one went outside their little group to see if this idea would actually work in the real world. They stayed in their own bubble agreeing with…
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Amazon Lambda – E-mail via SNS the URL of an S3 file when created
I threw together the following Lambda function to send an e-mail via SNS (Amazon’s Simple Notification Service) whenever a file is created in S3 (Amazon’s Simple Storage Service.) Yes, it’s barely commented and overly loggy, but you get the idea: 'use strict'; console.log('Loading function'); const aws = require('aws-sdk'); const s3 = new aws.S3({ apiVersion: '2006-03-01' }); exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => { //console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 2)); // Get the object from the event and show its content type const bucket = event.Records[0].s3.bucket.name; const key = decodeURIComponent(event.Records[0].s3.object.key.replace(/\+/g, ' ')); const params = { Bucket: bucket, Key: key, }; s3.getObject(params, (err, data) => { if (err) { console.log(err); const…
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Unroll.me ‘heartbroken’
On April 23, 2017, unroll.me posted a blog with a byline from Jojo Hedya – the CEO and co-founder at Unroll.me. In the blog, Jojo states that “it was heartbreaking to see that some of our users were upset to learn about how we monetize our free service.” Yes, if the service is free, then you (and your information) are probably what is being sold and unroll.me was no exception. How could the tenants of the un-CEO have helped Jojo? Treat your employees with respect and, just as importantly, treat your customers with respect. This is the time for the CEO to come clean with the customers. Actually, the time was well…
Unconventional Management
