The Network Garden - Mark Sigal's Blog

A Dazzling Metaphor for Product-Market Fit

When our team confuses functionality with specific tangible outcomes that our clients actually understand how it benefits them, I say, "You know, it's for kids."

Internally, this has become known as a reference to the Hula Hoop scene in Coen Brothers movie 'Hudsucker Proxy,' which illustrates what happens when product-market fit is not clear...and what happens, when it SUDDENLY is.

This scene is SO well done. Give it a look.

Each Man's Life Touches So Many Other Lives

I was watching ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ last night.

Ever so timely, when our collective narcissism seems to completely envelop any sense of having a social contract and duty to one another.

I love this line from Clarence the angel after George Bailey realizes the lives lost if he was never born:

“Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"

What kind of hole do you and I leave every day by not speaking up for those with no voice, by extinguishing our empathy for others and by enabling parasites to pray on the unfortunate?

We can do better. We NEED to do better in the year ahead.