2013
22 notes published in 2013
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How Netflix reinvented HR
Patty McCord, Netflix's longtime chief talent officer, goes beyond the famous culture deck, viewed millions of times, which Silicon Valley called one of …
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100 conversion optimization case studies
A KISSmetrics roundup of 100 A/B tests published by marketers, each with its result: a redesign that lifts conversions by a third, action-oriented copy, a …
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3 lessons from 3 years on the App Store
Robleh Jama, founder of Tiny Hearts, shares three lessons from three years of making apps: version 1 is only the start, as ongoing development and …
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Why a startup published all of its employees’ salaries
Quartz (December 2013): the startup Buffer published the salaries of all its employees, and the formula behind them, as part of its policy of transparency …
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The elevator pitch, fill in the blanks
Inc. (December 2013) presents an exercise designed by the pricing expert Stephan Liozu: a fill-in-the-blanks sentence that forces leaders to state what …
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The one metric you need to track – Lean Analytics
I recently finished another online course: Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll & Ben Yoskovitz, authors of the book of the same name. Those guys are …
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10 ways you’ll probably mess up your startup
Spook Studio lists ten common early-stage mistakes: no clear vision or purpose, a lack of focus, design as an afterthought, building something nobody …
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3 steps to turn customers into advocates
3 Steps to turn Customers into Advocates (20 second video) Identify the customer who like to most; Invite them; Reward them: give access to great content …
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How to make virtual teams succeed
Harvard Business Review (December 2013): small, high-performing virtual teams can help companies grow sales, enter new markets or invent the next …
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Getting your first customers – simplified customer development
Sometimes startups come to me with this problem: we have created this great service, how can we get our first customers. Those startups quite often …
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What Ash Maurya told us in Paris
Startup people in Paris had a dilemma this week – choosing between two events on the same night: hear the good words from Ash Maurya …
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A PowerPoint template for the Lean Canvas
So, the Lean Canvas is making its way into people’s minds. You can create and edit yours on the Lean Stack website. I had a …
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Which Canvas for My Project ?
So, RIP the business plan, long live the business model canvas. A new light and fresh tool that helps brings ideas into business. Now canvas …
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Business Model Generation – by Alexander Osterwalder
Business Model Generation has become a big reference. Explains – with loads of examples, use cases and nice illustrations – a simple and powerful tool …
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Build it and they will come
This is an insightful point from Steve Blanks’ The four steps to the epiphany: successful strategies for products that win He says that a customer …
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The 4 Steps to the Epiphany -by Steve Blank
“No plan survives first contact with customers” – Steve Blank Loved Steve Blanks’ The four steps to the epiphany: successful strategies for products that win …
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Running Lean -by Ash Maurya
Get Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan that works. It’s the lean and practical handbook on applying those principles to a startup. …
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Lean Startup Machine experience
I recently attended the Lean Startup Machine workshop in London. WOW. What an experience. 2.5 days of immersion to develop an idea into a viable …
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Spring in Tunis
Earlier this spring, I was in Tunis. I took this opportunity to listen to people’s opinion on the changes that Arabs springs brought, two years …
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WordPress as a base for building web applications quickly
WordPress has grown a lot in the past years to become on the most popular platform for web application. TechCrunch runs on it, and it’s …
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Kano framework, classification of user needs
As part of the design course by Karl T. Ulrich (pictured) that I follow on coursera.org (great site btw, which is changing access to knowledge …
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Introduction to 3D printing
3D Printing sounds like science fiction becoming reality. The promise of objects that can appear or be created anywhere. Wherever you are. At home, across …
