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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Product Owners: How to get Your Development Team to Love you was a post from Daniel Elizalde with some relationship advice, product management style, via a ProductTank presentation from former Apple Product Manager and industry veteran Ron Lichty. How do product owners get their development teams to love them?

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

Andrew Chen

For app stores, these are the developers that actually create the products. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. I’ve seen the difficulty of managing the hard side for rideshare first-hand, where drivers are the ones selling their time and effort in the market. You could sign up without filling in a bunch of forms.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market. The app landscape.

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

Mixpanel

As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. This is why, especially in today’s competitive app market, user friction must be a top priority if you want your product to succeed. Gamification is not just for games and entertainment-focused apps. Examples of user friction.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market.