Danielle Vermeer

UGC is the most powerful content to acquire, but also the most painful to scale for big co's. People trust other like-minded or aspirational people, always have, always will.

This guide will help you hone in on the best metrics for tracking user acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and monetization. We’ll show you what those metrics are, what they mean, how to calculate them, and why they matter.

Consumption driver: a feature that serves up ready-made content to the user (e.g. a newsfeed or digest email)Verbs: the core actions you want the reader to take when consuming content (e.g. like, upvote, downvote, share, retweet, comment, etc)Personalization: data infrastructure and product features that “push” new content to the user (Youtube,... See more

The pre-filled template reflects the real challenges and priorities I faced when I first joined DataStax in 2011. Create a copy and take a rough pass at filling out each the Go-To-Market, Product, and People categories for your company.

Notice how the decisions you make regarding your spare time and money indicate clearly what you care about.

So how does Aggregation Theory apply to secondhand fashion? Resale aggregation relies on resale digitization.Users must first create digital listings of their physical clothes to sell on resale marketplaces like Poshmark, Depop, Ebay, etc. or get discovered on aggregators of aggregators like GEM. 

on-going compilation of my notes, tweets, threads, blogposts and thinking re: strategy, which may eventually cohere into an ebook of its own