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- Articles & Lessons Learned
How Medium is building a new kind of company with no managers
Medium adopted the Holacracy model about a year ago. Calling it “hands down, by far the best way I know or have ever seen to structure and run a company,” Stirman says. He’s especially drawn to the strategy’s crystal clear minimalism and logic. “It’s basically an operating system for your organization, so the engineer in me loves it."
Facebook's 'aha moment' is simpler than you think
Many leading tech companies have promoted “aha moments”—the instant a user understands the value of their product—as a key to growth. Most notably, Chamath Palihapitiya declared Facebook’s “aha moment”—getting to 7 friends in 10 days—as Facebook’s North Star on the path to 1 billion users.
Customers need to fire something before they can hire your product
The basic premise is that people hire products to get a job done. If you can uncover the job, it puts you in the right context for creating a solution. Sounds basic. But it can lead to some interesting and counter-intuitive insights.
Uber’s new BHAG: UberPool
In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “Big Hairy Audacious Goal.” Collins and Porras suggest that the very best companies set an audacious, very long-term goal that shines a light towards “an envisioned future.”
Startup journey #liveslack
One of our members on #startup is exploring and logging the journey from idea to product. We love the sheer dedication to writing everything down and sharing the lessons learned with every other founder that is interested.
Product/Market fit and Lean Analytics
Product/market fit isn’t a singular event in a startup’s existence. It’s something you have to achieve multiple times before you win. The Lean Analytics stages are a good measuring stick for figuring out where you are (and be honest with yourself, don’t jump ahead!) and what needs to be achieved next.
How GrowthHackers(.com) uses “The Hooked Model” to foster incredibly high member retention
Sean Ellis noticed a gap that needed filling, in that a community for data-driven marketers needed to exist. People came but why they stayed (and continue to), is the more interesting question.
How three SaaS businesses beat churn
This post is part of a series of stories of companies who had successfully approached the problems behind reducing customer churn and improving user retention. It contains breakdowns of what they did and key takeaways.