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Here Are the Key Differences Between Strategy, OKRs, and KPIs You Need to Know

The Product Coalition

Early on, powered by a well-crafted set of OKRs, the notion of growth and step change was deeply ingrained in everything the program did. Choices vs. Planning Let’s say you wanted to make the most of a week-long family trip. OKRs would help us measure whether our strategy would help us achieve our goals.

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Solving Mobile Growth & Retention with Andy Carvell, ex Growth at SoundCloud

Brian Balfour

I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full interview here, and check out the truncated text version below.

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

Andrew Chen

This affects comparisons between apps and may overstate the traction of listening apps that auto-download shows. If traction among consumer listening apps appears highly concentrated among a small number of apps, the same can be said of podcast creators. Spotify, Castbox) don’t continuously download new episodes.

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Lessons learned from scaling a team

Intercom, Inc.

That’s what this talk (now essay) is about: people. In both cases, when you hit traction, the decisions about what you add and where are the most important ones you’ll make. The problem you see here is one of “inter-dependence” vs “independence”. Patrick Collison wrote a great piece about this in the High Growth Handbook.