Mark Fishman
@markfishman
🤓 User research for consumer tech startups
🧠Innovation in social systems
Mark Fishman
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Minimum Viable Testing involves identifying hypotheses you have about a market and creating tests that only focus on those hypotheses, not the long-term vision, the customer’s opinions, company or product building. This method forces you to be even more minimal in your initial tests, so that you can save time and have higher accuracy on your... See more
review.firstround.com • The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas
In Waghre’s model, he has a Group A, which kicks the storm off with a post that includes some piece of content or speech that is deemed dangerous by Group B. When Group B calls it out—a behavior incentivized by algorithmic engagement, as other members of Group B reward it—Group A members will usually double down.
Charlie Warzel • Twitter’s Response to the Oscars Slap Was a Predictable Cycle
[Instagram] is a fun product that millions of people seem to love; that is unwholesome in large doses; that makes a sizable minority feel more anxious, more depressed, and worse about their bodies; and that many people struggle to use in moderation. What does that sound like to you? To me, it sounds like alcohol— a social lubricant that can be... See more