Dungeons & Dragons might be the most fun way to exercise some of the most important muscles that Product Managers need Jack Moore Follow Jun 10, 2019 · 5 min read One of my friends once characterized
The sales industry is full of buzzwords, but unlike many that have faded over the past few years, account-based marketing has only become more relevant. In part, it’s due to the fact that we now have
For Duolingo, the world's most downloaded education app, growth is fundamentally about retention. If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends.
Whether you're at a brand-new startup, or launching a fresh offering under the umbrella of a name brand, you only get one chance to make a first impression with your product. That not only means telli
When people shop, their smartphone is now their go-to advisor and assistant. For retailers, this means big opportunities to be there and be useful in shoppers' micro-moments. This introduction to a fi
For the past half-century, Joan Didion (b. December 5, 1934) has been dissecting the complexities of cultural chaos with equal parts elegant anxiety, keen criticism, and moral imagination. From her 19
The world of retail is difficult to navigate. With the ease of entry also comes the ease of disruption, a plentitude of competitors, and more threats. In order to be ahead on the trends – rather than
These days getting users to sign up to a free trial is easy. The hard part is converting them into long-term, loyal customers. To do that, you need to nurture new signups throughout their free trial.
People arrive at a product with all kinds of different intentions, perspectives, and levels of familiarity at their disposal. We can either address that uncertainty with something hyper-specific, pres
Capterra's retail and eCommerce technology expert, Cara Wood, breaks down the five steps of starting an online store. For help finding an eCommerce solution, search our directory to read real user reviews: http://www.capterra.com/ecommerce-sof... Cara's Retail Management Tech Blog:…
One of the great things about designing digital products is that our products are never finished. We can continuously change them over time, whether that’s based on user feedback, changes in the marke
Unless you locked down a round of Venture Capital, chances are you were very cost conscious when you started your business. A lot of entrepreneurs lean towards PayPal to accept payments in an effort t
O nce, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marve
At Cyborgology, Nathan Jurgenson wrote a post questioning whether people should express relief that Facebook didn’t exist at some time in their past. Behind many of the “thank God I didn’t have Facebook back then!” statements is the worry that a less-refined past-self would be exposed to current,…
This season has been ripe with Kurt Vonnegut releases, from the highly anticipated collection of his letters to his first and last works introduced by his daughter , shedding new light on the beloved
Guys, I did it. I did it! I’m caught up! I experienced every show, movie, webisode, album, book, webcomic, podcast, video game, Twitter feed, Tumblr, Instagram, Reddit AMA , and op-ed you guys were te
(vertical forest), apartment complex in Milan, Italy, contains 780 planted trees and over 1,000 species of trees, shrubs and plants. May 5, 2017 My Anti-Pitch Jesus, how I hate pitching. Personal branding. The manipulative practice of selling yourself. Absolute garbage. I’m talking to you,…
T he economic and social crises are merging. The protracted "contained" depression is making life ever harder and disillusioning for those, and their children, trapped at the bottom – while making tho
Remember a time, in the not too distant past, when people bought software without trying it first? It’s a time that is remembered fondly by legions of sales people, maybe not so much by their customer
I was recently reading this Techdirt post about the awkwardness of cutting out the middleman in music. Michael points out that asking for money is always difficult- that it can very often feel awkward
Ever heard the expression, “go knock on a few doors” if you want to get something accomplished? Well, I think it’s time we all take that advice to heart. In my earlier days, when I didn't have the base that I have now, I was out on the streets hustling for Wine Library (formerly Shopper's Discount…
Articles by The School of Life Calm The Limits of the Conscious Mind To know ourselves properly is to learn to separate out a problem that manifests in the mind from one that is caused by the mind. Re
Is 2015 a good year for new music tech startups? In June we’ll get a good chance to find out with Midemlab . The annual startup pitching contest takes place during the Midem music industry conference
A t the end of last winter, a gigantic billboard advertising Android, Google’s operating system, appeared over Times Square in New York. In a lower-case sans serif font – corporate code for friendly –
*I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.*—T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Like so
(vertical forest), apartment complex in Milan, Italy, contains 780 planted trees and over 1,000 species of trees, shrubs and plants. May 5, 2017 My Anti-Pitch Jesus, how I hate pitching. Personal branding. The manipulative practice of selling yourself. Absolute garbage. I’m talking to you,…
O nce, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marve
For the past half-century, Joan Didion (b. December 5, 1934) has been dissecting the complexities of cultural chaos with equal parts elegant anxiety, keen criticism, and moral imagination. From her 19
When he was twenty-one, artist and writer James Harmon stumbled into a bookstore and found himself mesmerized by a copy of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet , the central concerns in which — love, fear,
In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto – and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in small-cir
I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration. Against that background, though, they…
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“True poetic practice implies a mind so miraculously attuned and illuminated,” wrote Edward Hirsch in his meditation on how to read a poem , “that it can form words, by a chain of more-than coincidenc
“The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world,” Clare Boothe Luce advised her young daughter , “because ‘these are the good old days’ now.” And yet most of
I'd like to begin with a true story. I was recently conducting a job interview for a Guardian role, and I asked the interviewee, who had worked only in print journalism, how he thought he'd cope worki