HBO’s Corpus of Content and Apple’s Lack Thereof
Apple TV+ is cheap and barren. HBO Max is expensive and cheapening their brand. Everyone is confused.
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Changing Your Pricing Model: How Hired Went from a Transactional to a Subsc
Hired's Head of Global Revenue, John Kelly, explains how the company successfully transitioned from a transactional to a subscription model.
Visual guide to Agile methodologies for modern product management
Agile methodologies theory, practice, examples, and free templates for product development and product management teams.
Japanese manufacturers use decades of experience to dominate key chemical m
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., JSR Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.: Three seemingly inconspicuous companies suddenly came into the spotlight in early July when Japan announced it would slap tightened export controls to South Korea on three key chemicals — photoresists, fluorinated…
Free Shipping — Real Life
Delivery robots will redefine the meaning of every object they transport
Hooked on Loot Boxes: How Behavioral Design Gets Gamers
Nir Eyal’s Hooked Model explains how games keep players coming back.
Product Managers Attempt To Solve The Toy Problem
This researcher studied 400,000 knitters and discovered what turns a hobby
An MIT Sloan Ph.D. candidate discovered what turned skilled hobbyists into entrepreneurs.
How exactly Stitch Fix’s “Tinder for clothes” learns your style
Each customer has an individualized style map, laying out her feelings about peasant blouses, A-line dresses, or pencil skirts.
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Assembly required – 45 sales tools to build the ultimate tech stack
As your sales team grows, your tech stack almost always does too. But figuring out which sales tools you should buy can be a daunting task.
Using Experiments to Launch New Products
Increasingly, companies are using experiments to guide them in their decision making—but many are still missing opportunities, or are failing to implement experiments well. When it comes to the rollout of new products, one particularly effective new kind of experiment involves…
Shopping Cart or Wishlist? Saving Products for Later in Ecommerce
On ecommerce sites, saving shopping-cart items for possible later purchase must be discoverable and low-effort.
Netflix and the Economics of Bundling
How does Netflix get away with releasing its movies in theaters on the same day it makes them available for “free” on its streaming platform? The answer is that Netflix is pursuing a fundamentally different business model from everyone else in the industry. Netflix is not in the…
How to Display Taxes, Fees, and Shipping Charges on Ecommerce Sites
Unexpected service fees and special-delivery costs should be disclosed early in the shopping process to avoid losing customers.
Network Effects: Measure Them, Nurture Them (3 of 3)
Some of the most successful companies and products have been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it… if managed well. But you can’t manage what you can’t measure. So, what metrics should you look at to…
Network Effects: Categories & Debates (2 of 3)
We’ve defined network effects — from what they are and aren’t to how to measure and manage them in practice — but network effects have still always been hotly debated: Where are they, are they real, are they enduring… and so on. So in this second video of our three-part…
Network Effects: So, Is It a Network Effect? (1 of 3)
Some of the most successful companies and products — from the phone era to the internet era — have all been predicated on the concept of network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. But how do you tell network effects apart from scale…
Unleashing Innovation With Collaboration Platforms
Effective leadership of virtual teams matters more than which collaboration platform you choose.
Applying Discounts and Promotions on Ecommerce Websites
Coupons and other discounts should be easy to apply and shopping carts should clearly display how the total was affected by the promotion.
Principles for decision-making in a flat organization
Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader
The Subtle Art of User Onboarding & Adoption
The “traditional” user onboarding flows and walkthroughs are dead. Learn about the next era of user onboarding and how to adapt to the changes in your org.
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How to Manage Product Strategy and Prioritize Like a Pro? Guide for Product Managers | HackerNoon
What will you do in product management if you can not deal with strategic planning? How will you succeed if you are not able to prioritize correctly?
Good decisions don’t have to be slow ones
Executives often assume that speed comes at the cost of quality in good decision making. A survey challenges this belief and offers tips on getting the best of both worlds.
Three keys to faster, better decisions
Frustrated decision makers take heart. Three practices can help companies make better decisions more quickly.
How to Negotiate the Price of a Pricey Premium Domain
Buying a domain at the asking price? That's like buying a used car at the asking price. Doing your homework pays off.
4 Online Merchandising Hacks to Increase Profits
Retailers seek to avoid markdowns and sell out of the season at full margin, but it isn’t easy to predict how much inventory to acquire. In this post, I'll address four online merchandising tactics that balance consumer demand with inventory levels, to maximize profits.
How to avoid losses and prune projects proactively
It’s common for companies to hang on for too long to projects or parts of the business that are underperforming. Two effective techniques can help executives make project investment decisions on when to hold on to an asset and when to let it go.
Value Delivery Patterns Shape Your Pricing Choices
When you deliver value to your customer is as important as how you deliver value. The when becomes a critical input into designing your pricing model. Learn more here.
The 4 Stages of 0->1 Products
This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass. Every week, I answer a reader’s question.
Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default
A new battle is brewing to be the default of every choice we make. As modern interfaces like voice remove options, augmented reality…
5 essential onboarding tactics for complex products
The ideal onboarding path is an easy and frictionless path to finding value. But some products include irreducible complexity – so here are 5 techniques that help to create the magic of a consumer onboarding flow in a complex product with considered actions.
The Ultimate Product Led Growth Resources Guide
OpenView's Kyle Poyar presents an inclusive guide featuring the best resources available to help you execute a successful product-led growth strategy.
Beginner’s Guide to Product Qualified Leads (PQLs)
A product qualified lead (PQL) is a lead who has experienced meaningful value using your product through a free trial or freemium model. Learn how to use them in your organization here.
amborle/featmap: The simple user story mapping tool
The simple and open source user story mapping tool. - amborle/featmap
Product innovation is not enough to beat a competitor’s network effects
Bird recently announced a new form factor for micromobility, the Bird Cruiser. It’s a cross between an electric scooter, a bicycle and a…
The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2
Toshiba has discovered a new way to enforce such planned obsolescence by cutting the repair market off from critical service information. But the cost to society is significant: The e-waste problem is growing; we’re losing thousands of domestic jobs as independent repair shops…
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
As I focus on becoming a better manager of engineers, I have been reflecting more and more on the advice that produced a 10X boost in my…
How SaaS Products Ascend the “Trust Pyramid”
SaaS products may be the future of how we work, but that future will only happen if we can learn how to build trust with your customers.
The Psychology of Prediction · Collaborative Fund
This report describes 12 common flaws, errors, and misadventures that occur in people’s heads when predictions are made.
Amazon is a boring retailer — Benedict Evans
Amazon is so new, and so dramatic in its speed and scale and aggression, that we can easily forget how many of the things it’s doing are actually very old.
How Duolingo Built a $700 Million Company Without Charging Users
“We believe true equality is when spending more can’t buy you a better education.” – Duolingo founders When the language learning software company Rosetta Stone went public in 2009, they… Keep reading
Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects – And
Many of the most consequential projects of the internet era — from Wikipedia to Facebook and bitcoin — have all been predicated on network effects, where the network becomes more valuable to users as more people use it. As a result, we’ve become really good at analyzing and…
The Pirates Strike Back
With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier
The Art of Saying No to Invites When You REALLY Don't Want to Do Something
Plus how to actually do it—with sample scripts
Bullet Time
An inquiry into how young people are hanging out on the internet.
Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget (and a pre-formatted budgeting sheet) - Canny Blog
Not every SaaS company has endless spare money. One of the biggest piggy bank breakers are the tools we use—and it adds up fast.
Bias Busters: Knowing when to kill a project
You’re keen on encouraging innovation and letting a thousand flowers bloom, but how do you sort the weeds from the seeds?
How to assess the quality of garments: A Beginner's Guide {Part I} — Anusch
What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty on the rack but won't…