“Prefer” Postmortem: 6 Lessons Learned From Building An Independent Pro Network
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“Prefer” Postmortem: 6 Lessons Learned From Building An Independent Pro Network
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One lesson learned building Behance to a community of 35M+ highly opinionated creative people: you don’t own a network, you are the steward of a network.
Scott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications
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Falling into the trap of thinking other users will be like you is especially pernicious because the people building the product are usually among that early adopter cohort. The easiest north star for a product person is their own intuition. But if they're working on a product that requires customer segmentation, being in the early adopter cohort me... See more
Eugene Wei • Invisible Asymptotes
A few months later, Feirstein and Moran made a significant discovery: almost all of their customers did business with them only once. They had a transactional business yet they were trying to make it so much more than that. So they stopped trying to make their service “better than similar offers,” and instead settled with good. Given that most peop
... See moreSimon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
But if they're working on a product that requires customer segmentation, being in the early adopter cohort means one's instincts will keep guiding you towards the wrong North star and the company will just keep bumping into the invisible asymptote without any idea why.
