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Paving the Cow Path and Other Stories by Simon Cross

Mind the Product

The lesson here for Cross is that every development in the Facebook photos product can be linked to that moment in 2005 when the team saw how people were using the photos: “Instead of trying to change people’s behaviour, they codified it.”. Within a few years Facebook had more photos than the other top 10 photo services combined.

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Collection, Analysis, Action: A Beginner’s Guide to the Product Stack

Mixpanel

In 2005, fresh off of an IPO the previous year, Google analyzed how it could invest its war chest in a forward-looking manner. The world of engagement and messaging is powerful, but can admittedly be daunting for the uninitiated. Whatever you choose, be sure to approach collection with intentionality.

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Web or app Development – Which is Better?

Mind the Product

And beyond the lock screen, for instance, in WhatsApp, you can rely on the smart notifications response function to reply to an incoming message without launching the app. For instance, in an airline app, notification about “Your Flight AA001 is now boarding at Gate B99” can be all information a user needs. Web is for big Audiences.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

From “Unbundling Craiglist” to “Uber for X” – we lay it all out in a single framework. Angie’s List, a home services site founded in 2005, carves off Craigslist’s household services category. Hope you enjoy our thinking! -A]. Goods versus Services – why a breakthrough is coming.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently 5. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. Every business is unique, and metrics frameworks apply differently. Nothing matters more than retention 2.

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

Andrew Chen

You can follow and message Li on Twitter if you have thoughts about the piece. 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. It was originally published on a16z.com.