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

Mixpanel

The main message is that one of your centerpiece features is “confusing” or “doesn’t make sense.” And if you’re an early stage startup, you may qualify for $50k in free credits toward paid features via Mixpanel’s Startup Program !). You might be tempted to think you were wrong about the feature and should scrap it.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

Yes, the most famous early implementation of referral programs came from Dropbox, which inspired a generation of startups — particularly YCombinator-backed startups — to experiment with similar ideas. What’s the message? Why did this make sense for them? They also tend to decline in importance over time.

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

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. This all created trust.

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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Buy it here. Value Proposition Design.

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

Andrew Chen

You can follow and message Li on Twitter if you have thoughts about the piece. I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. It was originally published on a16z.com.