Adam Breckler

Working on something new. Previously: Founder @ Prism.io, Co-Founder & Head of Product at Visual.ly. Sometimes investor and advisor to early-stage startups.

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Why invest in ₿itcoin? A guide for the intelligent skeptic.

Over the years i've had many questions from family & friends considering investing in Bitcoin.

16 Nov 2020 • 14 min read

Building a Digital Brain Board

Notebooking, Topic Forests, Trees of Knowledge & Digital “Brain Boards” Quick! What do you know

21 Mar 2019 • 2 min read

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A Meme Supreme

A short history of meme evolution and how culture can become temporarily dominated by a

08 Sep 2016 • 5 min read

9 reasons that screenshots are still broken

What’s the big deal with screenshots?If you’ve been watching twitter recently, you’

13 Nov 2015 • 2 min read

Jobs-to-be-Done: Hiring Mobile Screenshots

Applying the JTBD framework to the jobs we hire mobile screenshots for. Taking a screenshot

25 Oct 2015 • 3 min read

Before they were famous

Taglines of five different startups before and after they made it big. Coming up with

08 Oct 2015 • 3 min read

Growth is a team sport

A startup has one primary goal above all others [http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html]

28 Aug 2014 • 5 min read

It’s like Craigslist, but better!

How great big things often start off as small ugly things and grow over time.

05 Aug 2014 • 3 min read

How Dropbox, Uber, Hotel Tonight and WealthFront leverage referrals to create an army of growth agents

With the increasing popularity of referral programs, it’s becoming increasingly clear, some companies just

10 Jun 2014 • 3 min read

In God we Trust, all others bring data

Designing a Data-Informed Decision Process with Edwards Deming: Grandfather of the Lean StartupThe late William

13 Nov 2013 • 5 min read

How we crack the chicken and the egg problem

Hatching a Design Marketplace from Scratch at Visually“…for whatever reason, people do not get

16 Oct 2013 • 3 min read

The Direct Traffic Myth

Have you ever wondered how exactly “direct” traffic is measured in Google Analytics? For the

27 Dec 2009 • 1 min read

Measurability = Accountability

Hypothesis: In organizations where performance can be directly measured, compensation approaches the fair market value

31 Oct 2009 • 2 min read

Bookshelf

The Longevity Economy

The Longevity Economy: Unlocking the World’s Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market: Coughlin, Joseph F.: 9781610396639:

05 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

The Black Swan

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section:

02 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

Listening

Succession (Main Title Theme)

https://open.spotify.com/track/0bSHwuTOZVJUXWT03H9oD2

02 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

Tehran

02 Oct 2020 • 1 min read

Press

Growth Hacking Is Bull

Growth Hacking Is BullDoing SEO, SEM or social media marketing isn’t “growth hacking.” It’

10 Jan 2014 • 1 min read

GrowthHacker.TV Interview

I was recently invited to give an interview on GrowthHacker.TV, which has some great

01 Oct 2013 • 1 min read

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