How Shopify Payments Work: All You Want To Know?

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The Very Sincere Economics of Greeting Cards

It seems like absolutely nobody except your grandmother sends greeting cards anymore, which makes sense, because a text message is so much more immediate and...

Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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When should you kill a product? 4 lessons from GitLab’s subscription change

Earlier this year, GitLab got rid of a paid starter offering, trimming its product catalog from 4 subscription tiers to 3 — here's why it makes sense.

Building Products at Airbnb - Bring the Donuts Newsletter

No New Categories | Greg Kogan

In college, I took a self-defense class, taught by Sensei Flagg. The next semester, I took a kickboxing class, taught by Sensei Flagg. The next and final semester, I took an Isshin-Ryū Karate class, taught by Sensei Flagg. It was the exact same class each time. The…

The 3 Minutes It Takes To Read This Will Improve Your Conversations Forever

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Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces Will Turn Large Organizations Inside-Out

The marketplace revolution is still just beginning and the enterprise gateway is the newest type of marketplace.

11 TikTok Video Ideas for Merchants

You’ve downloaded TikTok and browsed the videos. Now you’re wondering what content to create for your ecommerce business. There are many types of videos to attract leads without dancing on camera. Here are 11 ideas for all types of merchants.

The Abandoned Side Project That Quietly Turned Into a $700m/year Revenue Bu

Reddit: Organized Lightning | The Generalist

One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued.

How to identify your products for Google

Manufacturers, retailers and publishers should use structured data and provide an accurate GTIN whenever possible.

Buyer beware: Massive experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees | Haas News | Berkeley Haas

There’s a reason that online ticket sellers hit you with those extra fees after you’ve picked your seats and are ready to click “buy.” Pure profit. A

Start with a Niche

The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.

The Decoy Effect: How You Are Influenced to Choose Without Really Knowing I

Think you got a good deal? Look again.

How to Build an Invention Machine — 6 Lessons That Powered Amazon’s Success

Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.

How to be more productive without forcing yourself

Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.

What leader(s) over your product career truly changed how you approach prod

I learned from bosses & peers, including some famous peeps like Reed Hastings, Patty McCord, and Dan Rosensweig. But mainly I learned by doing, supercharged by feedback from many "Friends of Gib."

Ask HN: Is “contact us for pricing” a dark pattern? | Hacker News

How A Retail Chain Without A Website Powered Through The Pandemic

Burlington shut down online sales in March right before coronavirus lockdowns. But it's among the discount retailers that have endured the pandemic surprisingly well, even opening new stores.

How to Eat an Elephant, One Atomic Concept at a Time - kwokchain

How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop. Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock performance, thanks to…

Instacart Survived Covid Chaos — But Can It Keep Delivering After The Pandemic?

Apoorva Mehta’s grocery delivery app is now an essential—and booming—business. Now the 34-year-old billionaire has to show he can outfox Bezos, dodge an avalanche of new competitors and calm his rebellious workers and restless partners.

Survival Metrics Are a Powerful Product Tool. Here’s How They Work.

Product teams often know that a project needs to change direction, but they don’t have a way to make that change safely and quickly. Survival metrics empower them to do just that.

When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

Risk management needs to be part of the daily lives of all employees up, down, and across an organization. Here’s how the Swiss electricity network achieves that.

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What Bill Gurley Saw - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog

Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through Bill Gurley's VC career.

The art and science of SaaS pricing: True usage-based pricing

Usage-based pricing can be incredibly powerful, particularly in cases where the SaaS solution handles the flow of money.

The art and science of SaaS pricing: Finding the right model fit

Part 1 in this 3-part series: Find the pricing model that fits with your particular options for expansion once you've made that first sale.

Product Packaging designs so innovative, they make it impossible to say a n

In today's consumer-centric world, packaging designs hold a very important place! A unique and attractive packaging design is what captures the interest and attention of your consumer. It pulls the consumer towards the product and even drives them to purchase it. Hence…

How Amazon’s Business Practices Harm American Consumers: Why Amazon Needs a

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Looks vs. Results: My ugly ad got 150% more clicks than a professional desi

Making things look nice can take a long time, either due to lack of resources or abundance of opinions. This could delay launches, frustrate people, and waste precious energy. Those are high costs for startups or companies hoping to move fast. Is it worth it? Long ago I got fed

Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and…

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The Top Affiliate Marketing Networks

Looking to grow your affiliate marketing site but aren't sure which affiliate network is right for you? Here's everything you need to know.

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Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day

Editor's Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one . My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve…

Top Product Management and UX Articles of 2020

These were my favorite product management and UX articles of 2020, which is the 5th year I’ve compiled this list. Though 2020 was a…

You Are Solving The Wrong Problem | UX Magazine

When solving a difficult problem, re-ask the problem so the solution helps you learn faster.

Five Lessons From Dave Chappelle – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Dave Chappelle has a new special about his old show that includes fundamental lessons about how the Internet has changed the content business.

Product First - Bottom Up by David Sacks

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Decisiveness is Just as Important as Deliberation

Sometimes, deciding what to do is the easiest part of a decision. Being decisive on an issue you hate is a whole different ballgame.

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Mark Stiving on Value Based Pricing and Price Segmentation

Video and slides from Mark Stiving's talk on value based pricing and price segmentation at the Aug-26-2020 Lean Culture Online event.

Lessons from Running a Sale that Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week

Tips on running successful Black Friday sales for creators and Indie Hackers

The difference between efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency

Efficacy, effectiveness, efficiency… These terms sound confusingly similar. Commonly used in medical research, project management, and decision science, they are often mixed up in everyday conversations. If you’re in a hurry, here’s the difference: Efficacy means getting things…