Dave Hora
Founder, Dave's Research Company
Dave Hora is a 6x first-research-hire, establishing the practice at companies including Instacart, PlanGrid, and ResearchGate. He's a former board member of the ResearchOps community, designing and co-leading the Research Skills Framework project.
In 2020, Dave moved to Portugal and became the founder and perpetual Employee of the Month at Dave's Research Company, consulting with teams throughout the US and Europe on strategic product initiatives.
Dave also writes a newsletter on the process of building good things, is a practicing brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and looks forward to spending all of January, 2025 as an unpaid sake brewing intern in Japan.
Rosenverse talks by Dave:
" Direct action rarely gets what we want in complex systems; instead, we must know what we can actually manage. "
Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations
August 27, 2025
" There’s so much knowledge in organizations; research is not the sole source of truth, and we need to catalog and integrate that information effectively. "
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024
" Establishing research is years-long work, requiring coordinated action, self-awareness, rigor, and honest assessment. "
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022
" You can create a strategic capability profile of your team by mapping skills and desired growth across members. "
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021
