Finding the product in your platform

On the risks of over-emphasizing platform thinking

50 Types of Business Models (2022) – The Best Examples of Companies Using I

Last updated: Jan 30, 2021 Are you looking for ideas to unlock your long-term business value? If you shook your head in yes, remember that business model is one of the ways to streamline your business process. Precisely, a business model is a holistic framework to define…

Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a…

Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead. · GitHub

Ten Examples of the Mandela Effect

Did Tom Cruise really dance in his underwear and a pair of Ray-Bans in “Risky Business”? If you answered “yes,” you might be suffering from the Mandela Effect.

Disruptive Innovation

Some examples of disruptive innovation include: Disruptor Disruptee Personal computers Mainframe and mini computers Mini mills Integrated steel mills Cellular phones Fixed line telephony Community colleges Four-year colleges Discount retailers Full-service department stores…

Why strip malls are having a revival

As shopping malls across America struggle to attract customers, fill floor space and ultimately stay open, strip malls are apparently seeing a surge in value and popularity.

The size of your backlog is inversely proportional to how often you talk to

Lessons learned from a year of startup life.

ChatGPT Prompts for Customer Personas

Identify and target personas of keywords, competitors, Reddit discussions, and more.

Pilot’s Path to Product-Market Fit — Three-Peat Founders on Picking the Rig

The founders of Pilot have started three times over, starting with Ksplice (sold to Oracle in 2011) and then Zulip (acquired by Dropbox in 2014).

‘Let’s Go Shopping (LGS)’ Dataset: A Large-Scale Public Dataset with 15M Im

Developing large-scale datasets has been critical in computer vision and natural language processing. These datasets, rich in visual and textual information, are fundamental to developing algorithms capable of understanding and interpreting images. They serve as the backbone for…

Psychology for UX: Study Guide

Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about some principles of human psychology and how they relate to UX design.

Why asking your customers what they want doesn't work

And how can you figure it out what they really need

19 Open Source Ecommerce Platforms

Open-source platforms are flexible, composable, and highly customizable. Here's the all-new update to our longstanding list.

The New Moats. Why Systems of Intelligence™ are the… | by Jerry Chen | Grey

Why Systems of Intelligence™ are the Next Defensible Business Model

Planning poker - Wikipedia

Planning poker, also called Scrum poker, is a consensus-based, gamified technique for estimating, mostly used for timeboxing in Agile principles. In planning poker, members of the group make estimates by playing numbered cards face-down to the table, instead of speaking them…

Back to Basics: How to operate a successful private label brand

Proprietary items work best if retailers differentiate them through either cost or innovation and are thoughtful about choosing categories, experts say.

2,851 Miles // Bill Gurley (Transcript + Slides)

Hey everyone! I’ve mostly started sharing my favorite memos and transcripts over at A Letter a Day, but as it’s more of a tasting menu, I’m reticent to post multiple memos or tran…

The SaaS Opportunity Of Unbundling Excel

The unbundling of Excel is just as important as the unbundling of Craigslist. Here's what you need to know about the Excel Economy and how SaaS companies can take advantage of different verticals and use cases that Excel has dominated.

What is RGSP? Google’s Randomized Generalized Second-Price ad auctions expl

A deep dive into why the DOJ thinks RGSP makes ad auctions unfair, and why Google believes it creates a better user experience.

What’s an Operational Definition Anyway?

Two principles on collecting data, from the field of Statistical Process Control. As with most principles in SPC, this is both simpler and more important than you might think.

SaaS Competitive Advantage Through Elegant LLM Feedback Mechanisms

Eliciting product feedback elegantly is a competitive advantage for LLM-software. Over the weekend, I queried Google’s Bard, & noticed the elegant feedback loop the product team has incorporated into their product. I asked Bard to compare the 3rd-row leg room of the leading…

The Rise and Fall of ESPN’s Leverage

Charting ESPN’s rise, including how it build leverage over the cable TV providers, and its ongoing decline, caused by the Internet.

eBay rolls out a tool that generates product listings from photos

eBay's new generative AI tool, rolling out on iOS first, can write a product listing from a single photo -- or so the company claims.

How to Implement Hierarchical Clustering for Direct Marketing Campaigns— wi

Understand the ins and outs of hierarchical clustering, and how it applies to marketing campaign analysis in the banking industry.

Congrats on your Customer Lifetime Value prediction model — now what are yo

An obsessively detailed guide to Customer Lifetime Value techniques and real-world applications

Trader Joe's: The Anti-Grocer

The grocer created a cult brand with sales of $16B+ a year by doing the opposite of industry best-practices (from wages to product to ads).

Dynamic Pricing with Multi-Armed Bandit: Learning by Doing!

Applying Reinforcement Learning strategies to real-world use cases, especially in dynamic pricing, can reveal many surprises

11 free tools for PPC campaign management

These tools can help you analyze PPC competitors, track search trends or design ad creative – all without spending a dime.

Four Types of Ecommerce Merchandising That Business Owners Should Know

By Sam Cortez, managing editor and outreach specialist for Scalefluence.comMerchandising is the process and practice of displaying and arranging products for the best customer experience. The concept of merchandising is based on guiding prospective customers through the buyer’s…

How to Compete with “Free” Products and Services

Companies make two key mistakes when they try to compete with a free entrant.

Platform Adjacency Theory - Infrequently Noted

Like other meta-platforms **the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do**. Platform Adjacency Theory explains how to expand in a principled way and what we risk when natural expansion is prevented…

List: Marketing Mix Modeling | Curated by Abhijeet Talaulikar | Medium

8 stories · A guide to building an end-to-end marketing mix optimization solution for your organization.

The secret economics of the Birkin bag

On a flight from Paris to London in 1983 Jane Birkin, an Anglo-French chanteuse and actress, spilled the contents of her overstuffed straw...

208. Ultimate Guide to Platforms

Patterns and Practices in the Creation, Rise, and Fall of Platforms

The Instant Pot Failed Because It Was a Good Product

A one-hit wonder is never enough.

Uplift Modeling — A Data Scientist’s Guide to Optimizing a Credit Card Rene

Applying causal machine learning to trim the campaign target audience

Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America …

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Evaluating Uplift Models

How to compare and pick the best uplift model

What Do We Owe Our Teams?

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model. Last week, though, in my…

It's Hard to Build a Durable Business Selling Durable Goods

Plus! Wrappers and Layoffs; The Movies; Evaporating Sanctions; Bonds; Errors in Translation; Diff Jobs

How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor · Jacque

Are you a “harbinger of failure”?

An MIT study finds the same consumers tend to purchase failed products. Dubbed “harbingers of failure,” these buyers may provide new window into consumer behavior and behavioral economics.

Fast · Patrick Collison

Lean Canvas

Lean Canvas is a 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions.

You need to add some friction to your growth funnel

One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to user experience is that we must eliminate as many questions and barriers as possible.

Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy

This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.

Steve Jobs, Rick Rubin and "taste"

The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.

Use ‘Look Inside’ to Sell More Products

The benefits of Amazon's "Look inside" book label applies to many products. Apparel, bags, housewares, and more could experience more conversions with an inside peek.

How to Apologize to a Customer When Something Goes Wrong

Businesses are bound to make mistakes and disappoint their customers. But how you build your apology message and your careful attention to executing it appropriately can make the difference between losing those customers or increasing their loyalty. When delivered well, your…

What is Cohort Analysis in Data Science

This article will take you through everything about Cohort Analysis that you should know. What is Cohort Analysis in Data Science?