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:
" Monitoring for weak signals and early signs of emergence is as important as intervention itself. "
Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations
August 27, 2025
" If we make it our goal to teach methods, we do ourselves a disservice; instead, we need to communicate how insights help achieve their goals. "
Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 16, 2024
" Sometimes hidden blockers come from power structures that prefer things stay the way they are. "
Advice for Establishing Research
December 8, 2022
" As junior researchers, we mostly work on execution, while senior researchers own the whole process. "
A Research Skills Evolution
March 10, 2021
