“Writing is Thinking”—an annotated twitter thread
“Writing is thinking” is my favorite expression for how to work in a company. This annotated thread explores the value of writing.
A Refresher on Cost of Capital
You need to understand it even if it’s not your job.
Store Brands Aren’t Just about Price
Why stores like Trader Joe’s succeed.
Should merchants accept Bitcoin?
I was recently asked if ecommerce merchants should accept Bitcoin. My answer is a resounding “yes.” I can think of only a few minor downsides and many
Why Uber Fights
Ride-sharing is a winner-take-all market that depends on controlling demand more than it does supply.
The Risks of Changing Your Prices Too Often
Technology has made it easier, but strategic rules still apply.
It's OK To Ask "Would You Use This" in Customer Discovery
It's OK to ask a B2B prospect if they would use your product during customer discovery. Just don't to stop at "Yes" and assume validation or a likely sale.
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
The golden rule of A/B testing: look beyond validation
A/B tests provide more than statistical validation of one execution over another. They can and should impact how your team prioritizes projects.
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Scaling Engineering Teams via RFCs: Writing Things Down
I have recently been talking at small and mid-size companies, sharing engineering best practices I see us use at Uber, which I would recommend any tech company adopt as they are growing. The one topic that gets both the most raised eyebrows, as well the most "aha!" moments is the
Science Fiction Dictionary: Terms, Ideas and Technology
Dictionary of 3,300+ science fiction inventions, devices and technology from 1,000+ novels and stories by more than 300 authors from Adams to Zelazny.
A Career Cold Start Algorithm
Starting a new job can be stressful so I've developed an algorithm that has helped me get up to speed quickly.
What is Kanban? A Quick Guide to Visualized Improvement
What is Kanban? Learn more about how the kanban methodology of visualizing work in progress can accelerate your team’s improvement efforts and minimize waste
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price
You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
15 Psychological Triggers to Convert Leads into Customers
Would you like to know how to get more customers who can’t wait to buy your products and services?
Everything We Know About Platforms We Learned from Medieval France
Raise a glass of bubbly to the count of Champagne.
Pando: Democratizing career progression
Democratizing career progression
Art, Commerce, and Zamfir: Selling Music on TV
Not sold in stores. Duhhhhhh.Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from Ernie Smith, the editor of Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. In another life, he ran ShortFormBlog.How the music industry’s TV-driven direct marketing…
Price Unbundling Vs. Product Unbundling
We are all too familiar with price unbundling. Remember the first time Airlines charged for checkin bags? Or a restaurant charged for salad dressing? The simple recipe for price unbundling is to s…
6 Rules for Building and Scaling Company Culture
For your business to survive, it needs character and purpose.
drop shipping best practices #prodmgmt at DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
Closing stores requires a deliberate, systematic approach to price markdowns and inventory transfers. The result, say Ananth Raman and Nathan Craig, is significant value for the retailer and new opportunities for others.
Payless punks fashionistas by opening a fake luxury store and inviting them to comment on its 'designer' shoes
Bargain shoe chain Payless recently took over a Santa Monica retail shop and turned it into Palessi, a luxury store selling their bargain shoes. Then they invited influencers to the…
A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management
If you’re a startup company founder with a technical background (or a design or product management background), building a sales team for…
How to Prioritize Your Company’s Projects
The wrong priorities lead to bad decisions.
Creativity: 14 Ways To Find Inspiration And Originality - PsyBlog
Creativity research in psychology reveals 14 ways to increase imaginative and creativity thinking, discover new ideas and solve problems.
The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting
Probably not the ones you think.
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User Acquisition: The Five Sources of Traffic
This is the first post in a three post series on user acquisition. The topic of this blog post may seem simplistic to those of you who have been in the trenches, working hard to grow visits and vis…
SEO How-to, Part 8: Architecture and Internal Linking
The structure of your ecommerce site — categories, subcategories, attributes — heavily impacts search engine optimization. This is the eighth installment in my “SEO How-to” series.
16 More Startup Metrics | Andreessen Horowitz
A few weeks ago, we shared some key startup metrics (16 of them, to be exact) that help investors gauge the health of a business when investing in it. But to repeat ourselves for a moment: Good metrics aren’t just about raising money from VCs … they’re about running the business…
Moneyball for engineers: What the semiconductor industry can learn from sports
R&D leaders can boost productivity by using advanced analytics to create stronger, faster engineering teams.
Welcome Email to New Client | 17 Examples of Highly Effective Welcome Emails
Learn everything you need to know about creating an effective welcome email in these 17 examples. Read more.
7 Pricing Strategies Based on Research Studies
Explore a few tips on ways to improve the pricing of your services by looking at a few research studies on people's buying behaviors.
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
Koru CEO Kristen Hamilton helps hundreds of people hire and get hired every year. These are the traits she knows translate into excellent performance on the job.
Multi-armed bandits for dynamic movie recommendations
Making the best recommendations to anonymous audiences
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16 Sales Contract Clauses to Balance Risk and Reward | Andreessen Horowitz
Think of a sales contract as a system of interconnected components and levers that work together to achieve an acceptable level of risk and reward for both you and your customer.
A dirty dozen: twelve common metric interpretation pitfalls in online controlled experiments | the morning paper
Twilio Segment Blog
The best way to win an argument
How do you change someone’s mind if you think you are right and they are wrong? Psychology reveals the last thing to do is the tactic we usually resort to. You are, I’m afraid to say, mistake…
20 Product Prioritization Techniques: A Map and Guided Tour | Folding Burritos
An in-depth overview of 20 product prioritization techniques and a periodic table to make sense of them all.
Steve Blank How to Be Smarter than Your Investors – Continuous Customer Discovery
Teams that build continuous customer discovery into their DNA will become smarter than their investors, and build more successful companies. — Awhile back I blogged about Ashwin, one of my ex…
Packaging design: Five simple rules for designing the perfect packaging
Two Things to Do After Every Meeting
Don’t let progress end when the meeting does.
Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month
Keurig accidentally created the perfect business model for hardware startups
It’s no secret that investors don’t like hardware businesses. Despite the eternal frustration of startup founders, investor distaste in physical product businesses is actually entirely logical. It’s nearly impossible to build a venture-scale business by selling dumb plastic…
Three Elements of a Successful Platform Strategy
Building a better mousetrap isn’t enough.