finance Should I take seed money from a large VC fund? A founder recently emailed me:Would love to pick your brain about this if you have a few minutes to spare. Let me know if you have 15 minutes to chat on the
The Hard Truth about Unlocking Innovation Another phrase for “innovation” is “learning what works.”But learning stems from failure.And failure means breakage of customer trust.Global 2,000 enterprises have an allergic reaction to breakage of customer trust.
founders Creating a Roundabout Culture As Armory enters into a high-growth scaling mode, I've been focusing on how we can scale our company and culture without breaking it.From the very beginning of Armory, we've put a lot
Self DROdio .Readme Here's a primer on how to work with me effectively. Reading this will help you ramp up on my work style faster. I'd also very much like to read your "ReadMe" if we
B2B Powering the Third Industrial Revolution (aka Why I Go to Work Every Day) The benefit of being a founder is that you can dream outlandish things, and nobody's around to stop you.Now that Armory has grown up a bit, I'd like to share the outlandish
founders How Many Golf Balls Fit in a Bath Tub? I like to do a little exercise when I give a talk (like the one above), which is to ask the room how many golf balls fit in a bath tub.Not because
Self My Work, Parenting and Life Rules I've come up with a small set of rules that guide how I work, parent, and live. Here they are in no particular order:Working:Business runs on relationships, and relationships run on
Health My Peloton First Ride — and its Implications for the Fitness Industry In my recent Armory manifesto post I write about how entire industries are finding themselves competing with specific software-first companies. I believe Peloton will become one of these juggernauts in the health category.
B2B Armory's Manifesto This is a cross post from http://go.Armory.io/Manifesto . If you like this post you might also like my CEO Manifesto and the story behind our $10MM Series A fundraise.TL;
Ketosis Two Years in Ketosis: My Health Update Here's an update on what I've learned after experimenting with putting my body into a regular state of low-grade (~1 to 1.5 millimolar) ketosis for the past two years:
founders Build Your Startup Like a Matryoshka Doll "Experience is what you get right after you need it." - James C. WoffordArmory is the startup I've always wanted to create. I'm applying everything I've learned over the past fifteen years from
B2B Software dominates industries like the fire-breathing dragons in Game of Thrones The Game of Thrones season finale was tonight, and I thought this picture was a pretty apt analogy of the insurgent role software is starting to play in a business' ability to dominate
DROdio's Bio I'm the CEO of Armory, a Series B funded startup in Silicon Valley that enables digital transformation for Global 2,000 enterprises. Our customers have a combined market cap of $1.52 trillion,
Health What I've Learned After a Year of Prioritizing My Health When I turned 39 last year, I knew I was in trouble, and although I hadn't recognized quite how bad my health had gotten, I knew enough to realize I had to do
founders A great way to interview consumers I've never tried this myself, but I've heard it works extremely well -- and in fact, I'd love for someone to try this and then post a comment on this blog (ideally w/
founders Instrumenting a Startup: The Tools & Services We're Using to Start Armory When Isaac, Ben and I started Armory late last year, I found a lot has changed since starting my last startup, Socialize, in 2008. There's a suite of new tools available to instrument
Health A Step by Step Guide To Take Control of Your Body It just blows my mind how little we know about our bodies and how to keep them healthy. Most people I talk to aren't happy with the state of their bodies. They either
founders Leverage The Last Mile One of my best "get things done" tricks: is that I focus on the "last mile" of whatever I'm doing.Here's a picture to illustrate what I mean:Most of the work went
Ketosis Beyond Fasting: The Ketogenic Rabbit Hole I'm about to take you down a deep rabbit hole, on a path that will challenge what you believe about nutrition and health. This is a journey of experimentation, and I encourage you
fasting Fasting Update: Three Months In NOTE: I've had many people tell me this article has motivated them to try fasting. Here's how to try it in the way that's most likely to ensure success.It’s been 13
finance 15 Month Performance Review: Betterment vs. Wealthfront vs. S&P500 vs. Other Options I wrote this post in August 2014 comparing Betterment to Wealthfront, so it's been about 15 months, and I thought it'd be a good time to check in on relative performance, as a
founders Elon Musk goes Back to the Future Elon Musk did a fireside chat (why is the fire always missing from these fireside chats?) with Steve Jurvitson of DFJ at Stanford this morning to celebrate an event called FutureFest. In the
finance Optimize the Passive Income on Your Short-Term Cash When I wrote my orginal post Show Me The Money: Six Strategies to Put Your Cash to Work, one of the strategies I included was leveraging General Electric's high-yield money market account for
fun Behind The Scenes of the 2015 Buring Man Temple of Promise Jazz Tigan, an insanely talented artist, is the lead designer of the 2015 Burning Man Temple of Promise.Burning Man is a festival in the desert that's often misunderstood by those who have
founders The Forest vs. The Trees: A Story About Focus I'm going to share a story about the forest vs. the trees. But it's not the story you're expecting to hear.My last blog post was about Doing Less, Better, which is my
