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Oct 22

Note to Flipside, 9/15/23

Every week I write a Friday note to Flipside, and I think about John Butman. — Apparently, John Butman passed away suddenly at home of natural causes in March of 2020. This I didn’t learn about until nearly 6 months later. Which is a shame, because one must have mentors, and Butman was, indeed, one of mine. If you like your clock rewound, you’ll remember March…

Startup

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Note to Flipside: 9/15/23
Note to Flipside: 9/15/23
Startup

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Sep 2

Note to Flipside, 9/1/23

Things that happen on the plane, before your vacation. — Well, let’s start with the obvious. You prep for a 5 hour flight by stacking up the guts of your workload. A client presentation to finish here. A strategy doc to leadership there. Real meaty stuff. Plus two-fisted handfuls of emails and telegrams and a diaper-rash of items you’ve put…

Business Travel

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Note to Flipside, 9/1/23
Note to Flipside, 9/1/23
Business Travel

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Jan 20

Note to Flipside, 12/30/22

We all know every human year equates to seven dog years. Or we all thought we knew that. Because, well, it turns out that the Veterinary Medical Association offers a more complicated equation. Animal docs will explain that 15 human years equals the first year of a medium-sized dog’s life…

Blockchain

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Note to Flipside, 12/30/22
Note to Flipside, 12/30/22
Blockchain

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Dec 6, 2022

Flipside is Seeking: Chief of Staff who isn’t Gandalf.

We accept all candidates regardless of race, gender, color or long white beards. — Flipside is hiring a Chief of Staff to work directly with our CEO, Dave Balter, on a variety of cross-organizational initiatives. Who are you? You’re not an MBA, but could be. Or maybe are, but didn’t want to be. Or went to a top 10 school, or didn’t. Officially never offensive, and often…

Blockchain

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Flipside is Seeking: Chief of Staff who isn’t Gandalf.
Flipside is Seeking: Chief of Staff who isn’t Gandalf.
Blockchain

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Oct 17, 2022

10/14/22 Note to Flipside

A brief history of management frameworks — Back at dunnhumby, an organization with 2,500 employees, we delivered the strategy of the business through a framework called the OGSM. Yes, I agree, it’s an awkward acronym, unless of course you don’t have the mind of middle schooler. Anyhoo, OGSM stands for Objective, Goals, Strategies and Measures, and it…

Management

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Note to Flipside 10/14/22
Note to Flipside 10/14/22
Management

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Sep 6, 2022

9/2/22 Note to Flipside

Failing the NFT experiment was the achievement — Godmode is dead, long live Godmode! Aye, the trip was short, but good golly miss molly, it sure was meaningful. First, there’s the launch. We started from zero, we talked to advisors, experts, internal theologians, and went damn deep on NFT expertise. We CPOM’d, we built from scratch, we designed…

Crypto

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9/2/22 Note to Flipside
9/2/22 Note to Flipside
Crypto

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Jun 26, 2022

6/25/22 Note to Flipside

Missed Friday, Make Good Saturday — The dog ate my homework. Not exactly a valid excuse these days, unless your dog happens to consider your mac a chew toy (PC folks just…for shame…) Solution options: A. change name of channel to Saturday CEO Notes for this week only. B. send note and tell people its Friday…

Blockchain

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Note to Flipside Sat. 6/25/22
Note to Flipside Sat. 6/25/22
Blockchain

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May 14, 2022

5/13/22 Note to Flipside re: Terra

Let’s start with Do. Do Kwon. ‘He’s legendary.’ A term whose meaning has morphed significantly in a matter of days. Regardless of how you view the happenings this week. I’m an unabashed Do fan. But for one simple reason: the way he does business. He’s uniquely accepting, in the rarest…

Terra

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5/13/22 Note to Flipside re: Terra
5/13/22 Note to Flipside re: Terra
Terra

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Mar 24, 2022

Seeking: gm/DAO

☝🏼 the most crypto job title ever? — The future is increasingly open source software protocols managed as decentralized organizations. These organizations are the size and scale of large public companies but don’t have dedicated teams or resources in order for them to interact with the real world. To immerse in this journey, Flipside summoned and instigated our…

Blockchain

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Seeking: gm/DAO
Seeking: gm/DAO
Blockchain

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Feb 19, 2022

2/18/22 Note to Flipside

In early 2000 I started a company called BzzAgent. We had no money, and generally no idea of what we were doing. The internet was still forming and we needed a web application — yet we had no one technical on the team. Someone recommended a developer (let’s call him…

Crypto

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2/18/22 Note to Flipside
2/18/22 Note to Flipside
Crypto

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