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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Organise around customers. Ways to improve the user experience was as big a theme in 2016 as ever and in The Experience is the Product , another talk from the San Francisco conference, Peter Merholz spoke about the need to focus on the user experience. Perhaps product management is becoming a misnomer?

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For marketplaces, these are usually the sellers and providers who spend their entire day attracting users with their products and services.

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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

It only takes a small amount of user friction to cause an app to hemorrhage users. And even apps that manage to remain sticky despite user friction will see their users struggle to find the intended value in all its features. Simply put: User friction can single-handedly sink an app’s usefulness. Here’s how.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

People are already spending a lot of time on podcasts, and it’s growing: listeners are consuming 6+ hours per week and consuming more content every year. Simply put, podcasts are digital audio files that users can download — or in some applications, stream — and listen to. A brief history of podcasting.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

People are already spending a lot of time on podcasts, and it’s growing: listeners are consuming 6+ hours per week and consuming more content every year. Simply put, podcasts are digital audio files that users can download — or in some applications, stream — and listen to. A brief history of podcasting.