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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? It’s important to understand that we who are building these products and services know things that our users don’t. Practical Advice on Tools and Methodologies.

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

Andrew Chen

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. The report covers things in more detail at the end, but that’s the tldr; from an investment standpoint.

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

Mixpanel

But first, you not only need a strong grasp of what user friction looks like, but you also need to be equipped with product analytics that can systematically identify its sources in your app so you can stamp it out. Detecting user friction with product analytics. Here’s how. What is user friction? That’s user friction.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. The report covers things in more detail at the end, but that’s the tldr; from an investment standpoint.