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Based in LOs angeles, ca, bet, build, go is a blog by derek kwan. his posts explore building products at startups, and sometimes poker.

Bet, Build, Go
Build Startups Like a Poker Player

Mar 19
Mar 19 Probabilistic Thinking Section from Bet, Build, Go

Derek Kwan
Operations, Leadership

How do poker player think in probabilities?

Dec 12
Dec 12 The war against work / life balance

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Operations, Leadership

Do you need to work nights and weekends to be successful?

Nov 15
Nov 15 Hire outside of your industry

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Operations, Leadership

Innovation comes from people who can see the world differently.

Nov 5
Nov 5 Don't water down your feedback

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Leadership

Watering down your feedback is worse than not giving the feedback at all.

Oct 23
Oct 23 Learning materials for product managers

Derek Kwan
Product Management

Getting into product management can be hard. Here are some resources I found most useful along my journey.

Oct 16
Oct 16 Too many cooks

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Leadership

You can overdo it with consensus. And your products may suffer for it.

Oct 9
Oct 9 Making decisions under uncertainty

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Leadership

The right decisions can make or break companies. The worst thing you can do is be indecisive, and block the progress of your organization in competitive environments.

Oct 6
Oct 6 Learning to say NO

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Product Management

Product owners must learn to say “no” if they hope to build successful products.

Oct 3
Oct 3 How to be an owner

Derek Kwan
Product Management

Owners think about ideas and solutions from the lens of the greater good for the company. Owners understand budgets, tradeoffs, and future-proofing.

Sep 11
Sep 11 Don't be results oriented

Derek Kwan
Leadership

Sometimes you get lucky, and achieve a good outcome with a bad process or bad decision. And sometimes you get bad outcomes from good processes and good decisions.

Aug 20
Aug 20 Planning your big bets

Derek Kwan
Product Management

In competitive environments, winners challenge norms, are not risk-averse, and are often annoyingly contrarian.

Aug 1
Aug 1 The myth of engineering velocity

Derek Kwan
Product Management

There are many moving parts in the software development lifecycle, and engineering velocity is often not the primary problem.

Jul 21
Jul 21 In defense of low hanging fruit

Derek Kwan
Product Management

Quick wins can have dramatic positive impacts on your organization.

 
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Bet, Build, Go is a blog about scaling products at startups. Derek Kwan is COO at Retention Science, and previously held product management positions at Yahoo! and YP.com. Derek also trains his game theory skills by playing poker part time.

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