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

The Product Coalition

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. by setting up processes, strategy and frameworks?—?as Instead, it was an MMORPG called Glitch.

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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

If you look at Google Trends, you’ll see that “growth hacking” all of a sudden became a term people in the industry were interested, and were searching for, in 2012. There’s a couple common frameworks to try to understand this, and one is the Growth Accounting Framework. Then to look at how to best improve the loops.

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

Andrew Chen

In the years following the release of Apple’s podcast app in 2012, smartphones pulled ahead of computers for podcast consumption and have grown to become the dominant way that consumers listen to podcasts. Since Apple launched its Podcasts app in 2012, smartphones have quickly grown to become the most common device for podcast consumption.

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

Andrew Chen

In the years following the release of Apple’s podcast app in 2012, smartphones pulled ahead of computers for podcast consumption and have grown to become the dominant way that consumers listen to podcasts. Since Apple launched its Podcasts app in 2012, smartphones have quickly grown to become the most common device for podcast consumption.