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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

Just because a user claims to “like” a feature, it doesn’t mean they will continue to engage with it or even use it correctly. A user is only ever responding to their personal interpretation of the user experience.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

Yes, the most famous early implementation of referral programs came from Dropbox, which inspired a generation of startups — particularly YCombinator-backed startups — to experiment with similar ideas. Why focus on new users? Why did this make sense for them? They also tend to decline in importance over time.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

This means deciding what features to develop, when to improve them and how to get users involved. Bain Public was of tremendous support toward those objectives" Virgile Ollivier, CoFounder & CEO. Paul and the team at Bain Public have helped us build our entire technical roadmap from the ground up. Are you a product manager?

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

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. But nothing beats partnership for synergy and unexpected brilliance”.

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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Designers make sure it has a great user experience and looks good. .” Every experienced product manager has heard some version of those words at some point in their career. Think about a company. Engineers build the product. Marketing makes sure customers know about the product. What more does a company need? ” Buy it here.

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. We’re excited about startups that are going deep within a particular vertical and building a full-stack audio experience tailored to that vertical.

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. We’re excited about startups that are going deep within a particular vertical and building a full-stack audio experience tailored to that vertical.