I just have to re-watch it from time to time: Product strategy is about saying no by @destraynor

Des Traynor, Intercom at Business of Software Conference 2013 – Product Strategy is About Saying No from The BLN & Business of Software on Vimeo.

For a couple of months now, I’m on the hunt for a dead simple and smoothly working affiliated marketing service for Picpack. It should be as simple as The Deck Network . I don’t need a lot of features…
What I’ve found so far, but none of them fits exactly what I’m looking for, are [...]

Again, a Clay Christensen talk. 37 minutes about (1) Innovation, (2) competing against non-consumption and (3) understanding the job to be done. Here it is:

(via HackerTalks)

But I’m not interested in maximizing. I don’t care about squeezing my company’s fabric so tight that I get every last drop. I don’t want, or need, every last drop. This is probably one of the reasons I’d make a terrible public-company CEO.
Jason Fried, as always, with a great Inc article.

Having been through multiple launches, seen companies launch at big conferences, and talked with many startups that have experienced the same effect, what I recommend – and what we’re doing at Origami – is not launching at all. Take the word launch out of your vocabulary – it’s a sign that you are gambling on [...]

It’s most likely the best essay on startups I’ve read recently: Gödel Incompleteness For Startups by Max Skibinsky. By the way parts of the essay remind me of some statements from Clay Christensen, like this one:
Just like strict formal systems of pure math will always contain proof of their own incompleteness, so the very act [...]