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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Was it insight, opinion, guidance on how to get the best out of colleagues or to make your voice heard, career advice, best practices, or something more fundamental? Organise around customers. It’s important to understand that we who are building these products and services know things that our users don’t.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For marketplaces, these are usually the sellers and providers who spend their entire day attracting users with their products and services.

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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

Mixpanel

It only takes a small amount of user friction to cause an app to hemorrhage users. And even apps that manage to remain sticky despite user friction will see their users struggle to find the intended value in all its features. Simply put: User friction can single-handedly sink an app’s usefulness. Here’s how.

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

Andrew Chen

Simply put, podcasts are digital audio files that users can download — or in some applications, stream — and listen to. To listen to a podcast, a user adds the RSS feed to their podcast client (such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.), The lion’s share of podcast listening happens at home, followed by taking place in a vehicle.

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

Andrew Chen

Simply put, podcasts are digital audio files that users can download — or in some applications, stream — and listen to. To listen to a podcast, a user adds the RSS feed to their podcast client (such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.), The lion’s share of podcast listening happens at home, followed by taking place in a vehicle.