Wed.Jun 27, 2018

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Announcing our latest book – The Growth Handbook

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just launched our latest book, The Growth Handbook. If there’s one perennial problem all businesses face, it’s this: how do we grow? Whether you’re at an early stage startup contemplating life after the TechCrunch bump, or a more mature business with many millions in ARR, your company’s survival depends on finding a sustainable answer. Perhaps you’re acquiring customers but they’re not sticking around.

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Don’t Manage your Stakeholders from your Ego

Ask Benny

Consider your stakeholders as valuable resources rather than obstacles you need to overcome. Let's Start with a Story A colleague product manager told me a story. She was launching a big change to a product that she was working on for several months, and when she talked with the product marketing manager he had a lot of concerns and demanded that she delayed the launch.

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Why Managers Believe Multitasking Works: Long Decision Wait Times

Johanna Rothman

When I teach any sort of product/project/portfolio management, I ask, “Who believes multitasking works?” Always, at least several managers raise their hands. They believe multitasking works because they multitask all the time. Why? Because the managers have short work-time and long decision-wait time. If you are a manager, your time for any given decision looks like this: The work-time is short.

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Check out my checkout

dscout People Nerds

Shopify’s Emma Craig uncovers what makes us playful and what makes us stressed when we shop online—and why making room for human moments is key. .

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Podcast: Notejoy on Launch Pad, Wharton Business Radio

Sachin Rekhi

Listen: SoundCloud. I had a fun opportunity to share the story of Notejoy on SiriusXM radio for the first time today. I joined Karl Ulrich, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, in an interview hosted on Launch Pad , a Wharton Business Radio program that airs every Wednesday evening on SiriusXM 132 highlighting the stories of successful entrepreneurs.

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An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor at Bay

Qlik

Apple made a big announcement weeks ago at WWDC - their Worldwide Developers Conference - around healthcare. Building upon previous health announcements of the release of HealthKit (I wrote about this a few years ago: the Electronic Sickness Record ), CareKit, ResearchKit, and a slew of capabilities and devices. The new announcement - Apple Health Records - leverages the exceedingly popular FHIR standard to provide a common and interoperable framework for sharing health data elements.

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A New Way To Delegate And Split Expenses: Fintech UX Case Study

UX Studio

It’s always a hassle to split expenses with friends, especially during online payments. Fintech startup Payment Courier set out to eradicate this pain by developing a payment plugin that can be integrated into any payment gateway or online payment system. In this UX case study, we describe how our team helped this startup enter the market with a well-designed product.

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Action Cohort Analysis: A key tool for understanding user engagement

The Product Coalition

So you’ve been tasked with “monitoring user engagement” in your mobile app. But wait a second, what actually defines good user engagement? “Engagement” can be interpreted in many ways and applied differently across mobile app categories. As Intercom elaborates , “For a to-do app an engaged user should be logging in every day to add and complete items whereas for an invoicing app, an engaged user might only log in once per month.

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How to Invest at the Margins by Andy Ayim

Mind the Product

Technology companies are developing products which shape the world we live in and the way that we experience our lives, but this is largely closed off to people from low-income groups. Barriers, both explicit and implied, exist to stop those with less from accessing these opportunities. How can we spot the potential to be exceptional in people from these communities, and how can we help to train them to access and shape the world we live in?

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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Everyone is a designer

Imaginary Cloud - Design

Social sciences are a huge mess, truly. You finish a Sociology degree and you’ll have to embrace the long journey of proving to the world that you left the University with some sort of superpower, one that is not available to the ordinary human being. And that’s a step that you can only take after you convince yourself that being a “sociologist” is a real thing.