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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

From here, it’s easy to assume what you’ve put out into the world is delivering high value to your users right out the gate—but you might also just be seeing a positive initial response to things like your icon, marketing/branding, and mission, without your new users really engaging with your app’s features at all.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Ways to improve the user experience was as big a theme in 2016 as ever and in The Experience is the Product , another talk from the San Francisco conference, Peter Merholz spoke about the need to focus on the user experience. But nothing beats partnership for synergy and unexpected brilliance”.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Coaching and mentorship play a significant part in the success of startups - it allows them to transform and excel in their market and industry. Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. A Good CEO Knows When to Ask for Help. Are you a product manager?

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

They have big advantages over paid marketing channels, in that you give your CAC to your users, who then spend it within your product, as opposed to handing it over to Google or Facebook. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s worth adding to complement other marketing efforts. Target : All Airbnb users.

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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Designers make sure it has a great user experience and looks good. Marketing makes sure customers know about the product. To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Think about a company. ” Buy it here.

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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. And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market.

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

Mixpanel

User friction” is an industry term that refers to various kinds of pain points that arise when a user engages with a web app, mobile app, or some other kind of digital product. Bad user experience (UX) design is a big source of user friction, but it’s not the whole story. Examples of user friction.