‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping

In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met

Can we forget about gamification once and for all? - UX Collective

If I got a dollar every time I hear about gamification in a meeting, I would be rich. Very rich. And the funny thing is, I don’t really…

The Forgotten Uses of 8 Everyday Objects

Have you ever actually thrown a pair of gloves in the glove compartment?

How the Game-Changing George Foreman Grill Made History

It's been 25 years since an aging prizefighter, a quirky gadget, and iconic ’90s marketing combined to take over the world.

How OKRs can make you a better leader

Leaders need to lead by example using OKRs, showing that they are equally as committed to successful outcomes as anyone on the front lines of the business.

A/B Test Statistics Made Easy

Part 2: Proportion Metrics

The Rise and Fall of China's Cycling Empires

China’s bike-sharing firms were supposed to be the next big thing. What happened?

The unsung customer-loyalty hero? The post-purchase experience

See how brands can re-imagine the post-purchase experience to create loyal customers globally.

Why you need customer development

We should invest at least as much time in understanding our customers as we do in optimizing our product development process.

How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine

Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people

The Warby Parker clones are imploding

How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry’s, and Casper

A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools | Hacker News

How to brainstorm great business ideas

It's been said that ideas don't matter, and that only execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good...

Introducing the Periodic Table of Digital Commerce Marketing

Packing an astonishing amount of information into an easy-to-digest visual, it's well worth the download.

Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen

It's Zuora's and it's brilliant. Here's why.

The dark side of the platform economy - Platforms, AI, and the Economics of

Channel control, predatory contracting, vertical integration, and the 'God View'

Wayfair is all in on logistics

Executives insist 2020 is the year Wayfair's logistics investments will show their worth.

‘The Whole System Collapsed’: Inside the Music Industry’s Ongoing Distribution Crisis

After a behind-the-scenes business decision, labels and record stores are having trouble stocking shelves with CDs and vinyl

When Distribution Trumps Product

If you polled a cross-section of companies about their most important software, accounts payable and accounts receivable software would likely not rank high on their lists. It’s the kind of unglamorous, workhorse software that’s necessary, but often taken for granted. Then, late…

Costco is refreshingly boring

The company's values used to just be considered good business sense. Not anymore.

Startup Economic Lessons from Shen Yun’s Empire — Packy McCormick

You probably think startups have nothing in common with a classical Chinese dance performance. You’re wrong.

How to Ruin a Company with One Bad Process (2014)

“Real quick, whole squad on that real sh*t 0 to 100, n***a, real quick” —Drake, “0 to 100/The Catch Up” I am a giant advocate for technical founders running their own companies, but one consistent way that technical founders deeply harm their businesses is by screwing up the…

Ask a researcher: How do needs drive intent?

Consumer needs spark consumer journeys. How can marketers identify those needs and address them? The latest consumer research from Google will help.

Trademarking color is absurd. But not for the reasons you think

Trying to crush other companies' use of color is not only petty; it completely misses the point of branding.

This product has an unpronounceable name. Now what? (from Ask HN)

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A startup built around building materials: Yesler marketplace is like Exped

Matt Meyers spent two decades at Weyerhaeuser dealing with product engineering, manufacturing, software engineering, product development, sales and

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Sunday Strategist: Why So Many Things Cost Exactly Zero

Breaking down the boldest bets in business

The Untold Story of the Vegetable Peeler That Changed the World

The origin story of one of the great icons of 20th-century industrial design.

Sound Decision | The Verge

Inside the world of audio branding with Skype’s new pings, bounces, and pops

Canva’s Digital Growth Strategy

Canva are one of Australia's most successfull startups. In this case study we analyse how they use digital channels to attract and acquire new users

Elad Blog: A Brief Guide To Startup Pivots (4 Types Of Pivots)

Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the company, (2) shut down what you are doing and return money to investors, or (3) to pivot. You can read more on making the decision to give up in…

A 2020 guide to smart discounting

Polly Wong, managing partner at Belardi Wong, offers tips for crafting customer offers while avoiding discount fatigue and harm to the bottom line.

Pricing algorithms can learn to collude with each other to raise prices

If you shop on Amazon, an algorithm rather than a human probably set the price of the service or item you bought. Pricing algorithms have become ubiquitous in online retail as automated systems have grown increasingly affordable and easy to implement. But while companies like…

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How to use returns to build customer loyalty

Returns are on the rise – here’s what you can do to make it your competitive advantage.

Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. Last month, I spoke […]

How interchangeable parts revolutionised the way things are made

One man's desire to create the perfect gun profoundly changed manufacturing.

I've Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here's Why I Won't Do It Again. | CXL

Big success. Bigger failure. And lots of lessons. Learn why building a growth team may be a multi-million dollar mistake.

8 Things to Consider When Building Managed Marketplace Companies - Andreess

There might be no more beloved image of the American entrepreneurial spirit than that of neighborhood kids who open a sidewalk lemonade stand on a hot summer day. With a little bit of “capital” from their parents — lemons, water, sugar, a card table, some markers and paper —…

Beginner's Guide to Product-Qualified Leads

Unleash the power of Product Qualified Leads to skyrocket your SaaS business growth. Learn to identify, nurture, and convert PQLs now with our guide.

Tails, You Win · Collaborative Fund

Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.

Building a Minimum Viable Product is Like Serving Burnt Pizza — Build Lovable Products Instead

Product builders should aim for lovable, not just viable. Jiaona Zhang (product leader at Dropbox, Airbnb, WeWork and lecturer at Stanford) shares her tactics for building MLPs that win users' hearts.

Why Meetings Go Wrong (And How to Fix Them)

Steven Rogelberg, a professor at UNC Charlotte, has spent decades researching workplace meetings and reports that many of them are a waste of time. Why? Because the vast majority of managers aren’t trained in or reviewed on effective meeting management. He explains how leaders…

Hacks, Methods and Tools to Keyword Research for eCommerce Stores

Learn the exact way that I perform keyword research that generates profitable, scalable ROI for eCommerce stores.

How To Design Profitable Sales Funnels On Mobile

Every website or PWA you build should automate as much prospecting and selling as possible. The only thing is that visitors enter websites with various mindsets, depending on which part of the buying stage they’re at. This means that you can’t just take every person who enters…

There’s an App for That: A Guide to the Product Management Stack | ProductC

Purpose-built tools have emerged to help product managers do their jobs more effectively. These make up the product management stack, composed of more than a dozen categories. But what is the actual function of each category? We drill down on everything from roadmapping to…

Why This Opportunity Solution Tree is Changing the Way Product Teams Work - Product Talk

Have you heard? My new book Continuous Discovery Habits is now available. Get the product trio's guide to a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. I’ve found a visual […]

Two Things to Do After Every Meeting

To make sure productivity doesn’t slow after you walk out of the room, do two things after and in between meetings.

Startup Benchmarks

I joked the other day that some of the best fairytales are written in Excel. While there isn’t a single magic number or set formula, understanding industry benchmarks can be really helpful to…