Emilie Kormienko

Once you ship the new onboarding experience, that's not the end of the road. Onboarding should be treated like any other product feature. It should be continuously optimized and iterated on.

2. Do not force the technologies on your work; sometimes, it's better not to have blockchain or crypto

As a general rule, the wilder the success, the more extreme and unlikely the circumstances that caused it. It's often a combination of the right genes, the right connections, the right timing, and a thousand other influences that nobody is wise enough to predict.

I’d describe my time from 2015-2020 (when the book will be published) in three distinct phases: Phase I: 2015-2016: Discovery, exploration, initial research, hypothesis generation (funded by the Ford Foundation); Phase II: 2016-2018: Experience, experimenting, hypothesis testing (working at GitHub); Phase III: 2018-2020: Refining, summarizing,... See more

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To identify key business objectives and revenue drivers, use the SPACES model: support, product, acquisition, contribution, engagement, success. Start by focusing on one or two primary objectives you can measure and expand from there. Good measurement frameworks consist of the goal you’re trying to achieve, the measures that will tell you if you... See more

Founders typically experience the market problem themselves, hence why they come up with a solution. Therefore, if founders can find people like themselves from their own circles, that’s a good starting point. From there, let Metcalfe’s Law of networking effects take it forward. But this can be slow.  My favourite way is to combine that initial... See more

Communities thrive when they can own a topic in people’s minds and become the most efficient and trusted place to get an answer.