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 simple version in Markdown instead. · GitHub
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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.
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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.
Lessons learned from a year of startup life.
Identify and target personas of keywords, competitors, Reddit discussions, and more.
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).
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…
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.
And how can you figure it out what they really need
Open-source platforms are flexible, composable, and highly customizable. Here's the all-new update to our longstanding list.
Why Systems of Intelligence™ are the Next Defensible Business Model
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…
Proprietary items work best if retailers differentiate them through either cost or innovation and are thoughtful about choosing categories, experts say.
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 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.
A deep dive into why the DOJ thinks RGSP makes ad auctions unfair, and why Google believes it creates a better user experience.
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.
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…
Charting ESPN’s rise, including how it build leverage over the cable TV providers, and its ongoing decline, caused by the Internet.
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.
Understand the ins and outs of hierarchical clustering, and how it applies to marketing campaign analysis in the banking industry.
An obsessively detailed guide to Customer Lifetime Value techniques and real-world applications
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).
Applying Reinforcement Learning strategies to real-world use cases, especially in dynamic pricing, can reveal many surprises
These tools can help you analyze PPC competitors, track search trends or design ad creative – all without spending a dime.
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…
Companies make two key mistakes when they try to compete with a free entrant.
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…
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On a flight from Paris to London in 1983 Jane Birkin, an Anglo-French chanteuse and actress, spilled the contents of her overstuffed straw...
Patterns and Practices in the Creation, Rise, and Fall of Platforms
A one-hit wonder is never enough.
Applying causal machine learning to trim the campaign target audience
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How to compare and pick the best uplift model
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…
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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.
Lean Canvas is a 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions.
One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to user experience is that we must eliminate as many questions and barriers as possible.
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
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.
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…
This article will take you through everything about Cohort Analysis that you should know. What is Cohort Analysis in Data Science?
One person's trash may well be another's "come up," or what the rapper Macklemore calls hidden treasures in the song "Thrift Shop," but only if secondhand shoppers follow the rapper's lead and dig through ...