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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. A product or feature might have been successful at the time of release, but technical capabilities improve and user expectations evolve. “Fail faster” is something nobody really wants.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Negative User Feedback? Handle it like Bill Gates!

Userpilot

A spate of bad reviews can be a serious obstacle to growth, retention and customer acquisition. You should care about negative feedback, because your customers – actual and potential – care about it: 89% of people look for new suppliers after just one bad experience ( Oracle ). Or is this is a bad fit user?

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Get a Head Start for Your Design Career with Dan Winer | Design Aloud ?

UX Studio

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Really anything to do with the wind surfing. Karthik: Yeah. I don’t know.

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

Brian Balfour

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. But, retention can always be better. “If

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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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Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith on marketing your product platform

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.

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