📰 The 49 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
September 2nd to September 8th
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🧐 Today At A Glance
After reviewing 777 new articles published this week, here are 49 of our favorites, segmented by the following categories:
Product Management (10 articles)
Growth (10)
Leadership & Strategy (10)
Experimentation & Analysis (9)
Agile & Product Ownership (10)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
ONWARDS! 🚀🚀🚀
📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Product
Music-as-an-algorithm At Spotify
by Bandan Jot Singh
The toughest question of product discovery: Continue, pivot, kill, or charge ahead?
by Martin Spinnangr
UX Research Insights from Three Social Science Theories
by Santhosh Gandhi
Why your product team needs the Job-to-be-done framework
by Miccie
A Clear Path to Growth and Maturity: Why Does Product Lifecycle Management Matter?
by John Utz
by Antonio Neto
4 Major Problems With The Lean Startup Methodology
by Sachin Rekhi
Using Contextual Nudges to improve feature discovery and adoption
by Vikram Goyal
How Opportunity Mapping Improvd Product Discovery At Trivago
by Melissa Suzuno
Inside YouTube’s Early, Failed Attempt To Recommend Videos That Are Good For You, And Enjoyable Too.
by Alex Kantrowitz
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Growth
How Crocs 3x'd Revenue in 5 Years
by Aakash Gupta
How to Use Google Trends for SEO in Your Content Strategy
by Rachel
5 Tips for Generating Higher Demand For Your Product
by Mayank Mittal
Trial or Freemium? Get the Best of Both with a Reverse Trial
by Elena Verna
by Dee Sahni
Connecting B2B Products to Revenue
by Ibrahim Bashir
The Fast-Foodification of Everything
by Greg Isenberg
How Amazon is killing Meta+Google's ad business
by Growth Shorts
$1.50 Costco Hot Dogs, 99¢ AriZona Iced Tea, and Product Pricing as a Promise
by Ryan Duffy
by Dee Sahni
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Leadership & Strategy
Reverse Interviewing—How to interview a company as well as they interview you
by Adam Fishman
by Roger Martin
Using The Strategy Diamond Model To Create A Business Strategy Outline
by Product Mindset
How to stand out in a big team?
by Nishant Panchal
What I Learned from the Best Leaders in My Career
by Klaas Hermans
Guiding principle: developing products is about developing people
by Jason Yip
How Bob Iger Grew Disney’s Market Cap from $48B to $257B Within 15 Years
by Joseph Mavericks
by Ben Zweibelson, PhD
How to attract talent in the Product & Innovation Far-West
by Cesar Miguel
Stop Using Ridiculous Strategies and Start Being Intentional
by Deb Liu
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📰 Best 9 Newsletter Posts In Experimentation & Analysis
Five Ways To Use Research That Actually Wins People’s Trust
by Toby Mcinnis
Why is the lack of a metric better than just any metric? Vanity Metrics vs. Success Metrics
by Alex A. Szczurek
How to start experiments as a product designer?
by Yolqin Alimov
by Simon Loftus, Afrina M, Arushi Mishra, Nicholas Pezarro, Vitor Seabra, Sriram Suresh, and Julia Winn
The art of burning cash & valuations
by CJ Gustafson
by Kyle Poyar
Thinking about Ideas as a System: Evaluation of Ideas
by Mikko
Clustering users based on weekly habit and daily intensity usage patterns
by Paul Levchuk
The rest of your company is experimentation driven, you should be too
by Janna Bastow
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts In Agile & Product Ownership
Understanding The Three Streams: Product Discovery, Product Development, Release & Measure
by Paweł Huryn
NPS for OKRs: Introducing the Net Confidence Score (NCS)
by Sten
Retrospective First Principles
by Stefan Wolpers
Three Tips to Deliver Better Projects with Scrum
by Tim Burns
The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Charles Stover
Basic tips to write better and more compelling User Stories
by Nando Mizutani
by David Regalado
It took me ten years to realize that I hate Agile/Scrum💥
by Reanimated Man
by Willem-Jan Ageling
Why Scrum Alone Will Make You Fail
by Fredrik Carleson
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Product
4 Major Problems With The Lean Startup Methodology
by Sachin Rekhi
Growth
by Dee Sahni
Leadership & Strategy
by Ben Zweibelson, PhD
Experimentation & Analysis
by Kyle Poyar
Agile & Product Ownership
by Willem-Jan Ageling
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 48 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
10 powerful habits for Product Managers
by Manan Modi
Case Study: Netflix’s 67% Decline
by Aakash Gupta
by Daphne Tideman
5 trends and 10 startups that will shape the future of travel
by Leo Luo
5 SEO Activities to Rank 10 Times Faster
by Jerry Keszka
What the Heck is Product Analytics in Product Management?
by Ochade Udome
Why Steve Jobs didn't need a script
by Linda Zhang
Product-level building blocks for designing activation
by Oleg Yakubenkov
by Matthew E. May
BCG Growth Share Matrix: How to make product investment decisions at a strategic level.
by Product Mindset
There you have it! After reviewing 777 new articles published this week, here are 49 of the best, my favorites, and the top 10 favorites of our community from the previous week.
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Until next time, as always, stay well product and growth friends!