Abhilash Rao
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Abhilash Rao
Streak Wager A/B Test
Our team wanted to make the streak even more motivating. We hypothesized that getting learners to explicitly challenge themselves to maintain a streak would make them more likely to work toward one. We ran an A/B test where we surfaced a “Streak Wager” store item at the end of a lesson and asked learners if they wanted to spend... See more
Our team wanted to make the streak even more motivating. We hypothesized that getting learners to explicitly challenge themselves to maintain a streak would make them more likely to work toward one. We ran an A/B test where we surfaced a “Streak Wager” store item at the end of a lesson and asked learners if they wanted to spend... See more
How Streaks keep Duolingo learners committed to their language goals
Duolingo
We can examine competition from both an industry and a market point of view.7 An industry is a group of firms offering a product or class of products that are close substitutes for one another. ... Using the market approach, we define competitors as companies that satisfy the same customer need. For example, a customer who buys a word-processing
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After the ’98 Masters tournament, Woods was disappointed that he did not repeat his win of the previous year, but he felt good about his top-ten finish: “I squeezed the towel dry this week. I’m very proud of the way I hung in there.” Or after a British Open, where he finished third: “Sometimes you get even more satisfaction out of creating a score
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20VC Newsletter - May 12th 2024
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Video to substack, nice format
Even the simplest physical act becomes enjoyable when it is transformed so as to produce flow. The essential steps in this process are: (a) to set an overall goal, and as many subgoals as are realistically feasible; (b) to find ways of measuring progress in terms of the goals chosen; (c) to keep concentrating on what one is doing, and to keep
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
Templates for growth vs customer success
Notion has really excelled in their use of templates, and it’s clear that people are highly engaged with them. They've crafted an experience where users feel they are not just using Notion, but are also interacting with a beautifully designed solution that addresses a specific problem. This approach has
... See moreOne former client, who is now the CEO of a health-care company, said if he had to identify one key element of his career success, it was realizing early on that every new role in his career carried its own particular purpose. Whether the new role came from a promotion or from a move to a different organization, his first task was always to get very
... See moreAmy Jen Su • The Leader You Want to Be
In psychology, valence refers to the positive or negative emotional value associated with a particular stimulus, event, or object.
And the Valenceeffect is our tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive things happening and, in return, underestimate the probability of negative consequences.
Which, of course, skews our decision making .... See more
And the Valenceeffect is our tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive things happening and, in return, underestimate the probability of negative consequences.
Which, of course, skews our decision making .... See more
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3 examples of how to use it in marketing