Mo Shafieeha
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Mo Shafieeha
Abstraction offers another benefit: by sacrificing detail, the essence of your message becomes plausible, believable, and relatable. Good storytellers give us enough detail to see what they mean, but ensure those details are relatable enough to be relevant to the audience. Images and stories help us connect with bigger concepts. Airbnb's early work... See more
Boxes and Arrows • Book in brief - Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap - Boxes and Arrows
3. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses Facebook is likely to let you scale a video product really, really, quickly if you figure out how to do it. Platforms cannot allow outsiders to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without paying the appropriate tax or benefit to them. A perfect competitor would be one that is unable to respond because of The... See more
Mark Suster • How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails
5. Leverage influencersKey question: Who are influencers of your target users, and how could you get them to talk about your product? Instagram, Twitter, and Producthunt can be examples.
Lenny Rachitsky • How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
3. Invite your friends.Key question: Do your friends fit into the target user group? If so, have you invited them yet? LinkedIn and Slack are examples of this one.
Lenny Rachitsky • How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
To avoid feature bloat and ruining the core experience, is your organization capable of sorting through a flood of design ideas and synthesizing and evaluating them holistically? Do you have the development talent and leadership to implement a good design that includes evaluating visual design, usability, and design strategy from an objective and... See more
Chris Noessel • Is your organization design ready?
What do they not understand, and what are they skeptical of?How does the customer wish it worked differently than you described?Your desired outcome is to have a limited, clear, and repeatable set of use cases where 1) your product is differentiated, 2) there is customer pull, 3) customers understand how the product as described by you will solve... See more
Greylock • “Is There a Pony in There?” Five Steps to Diligence Your B2B Startup Idea
Rule 1: Figure Out If You’re in an Ill-Structured Domain
Cedric Chin • Cognitive Flexibility Theory: The Rules
Education and Edutainment
A service's "Success Ratio" (SLI) is the percentage of fulfilled requests. A successful response is when a request is dispatched promptly and adequately, meaning there are no problems with connectivity, service, or unexpected errors. We're measuring the end-to-end experience delivered to customers to ensure SLAs are met. If we don't, we'll get a... See more