Category Archives: ThePowerMBA

Avoid Boreout: Find Purpose Outside Your Job

Recently, many articles have been written about Boreout: the phenomenon of people who are so bored at their jobs that they start feeling sick. According to researchers, the symptoms of boreout syndrome may include: “depression, listlessness and insomnia, but also … Continue reading

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Self Management: The Balance Between Body, Mind and Soul

In my recent studies at ThePowerMBA, one of my favorite modules has been the one about Self Management, which focuses on the management of our limited personal resources. In general, when people discuss this subject, they focus on Time Management, … Continue reading

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Building a Successful Startup: Avoiding Typical Mistakes

In general, a startup founder needs to do many difficult things. It is even more difficult because the founder will probably be doing these difficult things for the first time. One of the best books about this topic is “The … Continue reading

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Personality Types: Understanding Human Behavior

There are several different types of challenges in a work environment. In order to succeed, we must be able to identify these challenges and develop the appropriate skills to face them. One obvious kind of challenge is the inherent difficulty … Continue reading

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Lean Startup Principles: Vanity Metrics and Actionable Metrics

One of my favorite topics during my recent studies at ThePowerMBA was the Lean Startup. I read the Lean Startup book by Eric Ries several years ago, and since then I have been trying to follow its main principles. In … Continue reading

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The Power of the Platform Business Model for Startup Companies

One of the most interesting concepts I’ve studied at ThePowerMBA was the Platform Business Model. Many of the most successful companies today are based on platforms: Amazon is a platform in which consumers are able to purchase almost anything. Facebook … Continue reading

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The Blue Ocean Eliminate-Reduce-Raise-Create (ERRC) Grid

During my studies at ThePowerMBA, I had the opportunity to revisit the main concepts of the Blue Ocean strategy, which offers several tools for companies that want to improve their unique value proposition, by differentiating their products from the competition. … Continue reading

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Measuring your Startup: Unit Economics, CAC and CLTV

During my studies at ThePowerMBA I was introduced to the concept of Unit Economics. The main goal is to define clear metrics to measure the performance of our business, including the measurement of our costs, our revenues and our profits. … Continue reading

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Angles of Analysis: KashKlik Case Study

During my studies at ThePowerMBA I was introduced to the concept of Angles of Analysis, which are the aspects we should consider whenever we analyze a business model. The main goals of this analysis are: Be able to analyze the … Continue reading

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Starting-Up with ThePowerMBA

During this Corona Pandemic, lots of people have decided to use their free time at home to do studies online. According to TheGuardian “increasing numbers of people are using the time to build their skillset, with an upsurge in enrolments … Continue reading

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