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August 2024

Product and Engineering best practices for GTM enablement
In today’s competitive business environment, bringing a product to market is not just about having a superior product—it’s about ensuring that your…
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Karim Fanous
Competing with incumbents: Balancing innovation and legacy
Flanking alone is insufficient
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Karim Fanous

July 2024

Product pitches should be delivered like a three course meal
I’ve been on the receiving end of many product, or generally sales, pitches over the years, from vendors reaching out to me with their products and…
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Karim Fanous
Are agents a better fit for AI in software development?
Async less impact to developer flow than sync
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Karim Fanous
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June 2024

Why did Databricks acquire Tabular?
It's all about compute
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Karim Fanous
Is Github CoPilot effective?
Empirical data over a 90 day window
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Karim Fanous
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May 2024

Choosing between breadth or depth first as a product strategy
No, this isn't about binary trees!
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Karim Fanous
Navigating the new tech hiring landscape
A hiring manager's perspective
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Karim Fanous

April 2024

Scaling an engineering team: From generalists to specialists
Scaling an engineering team effectively is a journey that many startups embark upon as their product matures and user base expands.
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Karim Fanous
Predicting the AI winners: lessons learned from the GUI days
Trying to predict anything is almost always a bad idea, especially if the topic is AI.
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Karim Fanous
Best practices to setup overseas teams for success
This post is a continuation of last week’s which addressed why I view hiring overseas as a necessity for startups, especially in a non-ZIRP environment.
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Karim Fanous
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