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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Six months after the release in September 2012, the company had to shut down the game servers and admit it couldn’t compete with other online RPGs that already had sustainably growing fan communities and profits.

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How to Use Cohort Analysis to Master Product Retention

Indicative

The average worldwide retention rate in mobile apps from 2012 – 2019 was less than 35%. Let us walk through a simple example: You are building an e-commerce app. We do not know in this scenario if the customer came to the app through a discounted promotion or if their spending patterns are only on paydays during a month.

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A Tinder Product Analysis à la Jimmy Jr.

The Product Coalition

How Tinder keeps users using Overview How did Tinder, popular dating app, grow from launching across a few college campuses in 2012, to 12 million daily matches in just 2 years? In the case of Tinder and most mobile apps, it manifests itself as a notification. A pinch of negative feedback loop. It’s 2:49 a.m.”,

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Smart Glass Product Review – Jio Glass, Apple Glass, Google Glass, Etc.

The Basics of Product Management

How can an oil company pivot to technology? In fact, even the video promotes this smart glass as an essential tool for effective team management. It was launched with a lot of fanfare in 2012 with commercial availability by mid-2013. The recent surge in the market for alternative apps to TikTok is another case in point.

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Building the Future of Digital Technology News with Richard MacManus

DISQO

Richard MacManus is a writer and consultant working at the intersection of technology and the cultural industries. Previously, he founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and built it into one of the world’s most influential technology news sites. ReadWriteWeb was sold to SAY Media in December 2011 and Richard left the site in October 2012.

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Building the Future of Digital Technology News with Richard MacManus

DISQO

Richard MacManus is a writer and consultant working at the intersection of technology and the cultural industries. Previously, he founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and built it into one of the world’s most influential technology news sites. ReadWriteWeb was sold to SAY Media in December 2011 and Richard left the site in October 2012.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. Dozens of angel investments and advisory roles in SaaS, marketplaces, etc. Sometimes the loops are built because they are bought – via Ads.