“As Dixon said when he coined the term: Prominent examples of this “full stack” approach include Tesla, Warby Parker, Uber, Harry’s, Nest,… — Stephen O’Grady Small businesses Copy Share Image
“In an industry where usage is a function of purchase rather than a real desire for the item, technology providers will obviously… — Stephen O’Grady Technology Copy Share Image
“If software adoption is the goal, it’s critical to reduce the friction to adoption. Ensure that your software is flexibly licensed, packaged… — Stephen O’Grady Goals Copy Share Image
“The most important consideration, integration semantics aside, is to determine what a business needs to control to deliver value to a customer.… — Stephen O’Grady Business Copy Share Image
“Bezos informed his technical staff that henceforth every point of communication within Amazon would be through an interface (API) that could be… — Stephen O’Grady Communication Copy Share Image
“describes as a “full stack startup.” Nest could certainly have pursued a less ambitious and lower risk strategy of developing its learning… — Stephen O’Grady Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
“their book Information Rules, Haas School of Business Professor Carl Shapiro and Google Chief Economist Hal Varian claim that “the profits you… — Stephen O’Grady Books Copy Share Image
“Organizations seeking to commercialize open source software realized this, of course, and deliberately incorporated it as part of their market approach. In… — Stephen O’Grady Big deal Copy Share Image
“Apple has long been an adherent to the full stack philosophy, delivering a tightly integrated experience that it controlled top to bottom,… — Stephen O’Grady Philosophy Copy Share Image
“At MySQL, there were 400 employees in 40 countries, with 95% of the development staff working from home. The challenges this model… — Stephen O’Grady Real estate Copy Share Image
“The days of recruiting developers to where you are is over. You have to go to where they are.” — Stephen O’Grady Programming Copy Share Image
“Vendors are becoming aware that their future relevance and viability will depend not on their salespeoples’ willingness to let the CIO beat… — Stephen O’Grady Negotiation Copy Share Image
“As a result, the most important recommendation for organizations of all shapes and sizes moving forward is to anticipate worst case scenarios… — Stephen O’Grady Business Copy Share Image