📰 The 58 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
📰 The 58 Best Newsletter Articles Of The Week In Product & Growth
December 2nd to December 8th
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58 articles, categorized by:
Product Management (10 articles)
Growth (10)
Strategy (10)
User Experience, Research, & Design (10)
Experimentation & Analysis (8)
Agile & Product Ownership (10)
My favorite article for each category
The top 10 articles that our community clicked on last week
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Product Management
No, you shouldn't do a Spotify Wrapped campaign
by Adam Fishman
Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit — Lessons for Building Horizontal Products
by Todd Jackson
Leading Without Being The Boss: Tips For Product People
by Roman Pichler
Nail Your Growth Levers to Unlock ICE Scoring’s Full Potential
by Daphne Tideman
50 Product Management Case Studies
by Ferhan Gül
The Product Mentality for Startup Product Managers
by Manan Modi
Customer Feedback Loops — The Biggest Contributor to A Successful Product
by Gayathri Govindaraju
The SpaceX Effect - The Culture Behind SpaceX
by Jeff Burke and Michael Madrid
Tactical Gamification Framework in Google Maps
by Dhananjay Garg
Ten Things I Wish I Learned Before I Started My Career
by Charlene Lee
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Growth
Meet the hottest speech AI tool in town: Deepgram
by Rahul Krishnan and Ruchin Kulkarni
Product Adoption Phases: How To Instill Confidence In Others
by Kimberly Shyu
User activation starts long before sign-up
by Oleg Yakubenkov
How Startups Can Maximize Conversions With Free-Tier Pricing
by Joe Procopio
How to engineer word of mouth
by Darko
4 Nontraditional Product Pricing Methods To Set Winning Product Price
by Ankit Goyal
Funnel failures lead to a 21x impact on revenue when new learnings are carried over effectively
by Nader Sabry
What Is Growth Marketing & Why Do You Need It?(A Complete Guide)
by Amit Chauhan
The Uses of Friction
by Byrne Hobart
Value–Action Loops in Growth; How Value Creation Generates User Decisions?
by Farid Asadi
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Strategy
How to Perfect Your Market Research For Your Pitch Deck or Business Plan
by Al Anany
How to create and communicate a product strategy in 6 steps
by Ani Ganti
“Crossing The Chasm” Lessons I Have Applied to my B2B Social Selling
by Tony Hackett
A Close Case Study of Amazon’s Innovation During an Economic Crisis.
by Nathan Boyega
The Macro-Problems and Techniques of Platform Design
by Simone Cicero
The 'Storification' of Technology: From Steve Jobs to Elon Musk, Pixar to FTX
by Rex Woodbury
The dream of bringing back Bell Labs
by Noah Smith
A recruiting SaaS niched into employee referrals and grew to $700K ARR
by Dana Miranda
How to Define Your Product and Career Strategy
by Peter Yang
Why is Snapchat launching on desktop?
by Abhishek Patil
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: User Experience, Research, & Design
How To Optimize Customer Experiences
by Tremis Skeete
How do recommendations in Spotify’s new ‘Enhance’ feature work?
by Dhananjay Garg
How to create typography guidelines for a product that does not follow a design system
by Edward Chechique
Specific skills and tools that make DesignOps unique and different from other functions
by Patrizia Bertini
Why every senior UX Researcher needs both strong quantitative and qualitative skills
by Kristopher Saber
Creating an effective design system with the DS Canvas
by Paavan
Are we even affording right?
by Aaron Cecchini-Butler
The secret recipe behind Spotify’s Success
by Josep Ferrer
Stop Dividing Generative and Evaluative Research
by Lindsey Wallace
When to Design for Emergence
by Kasey Klimes
📰 Best 8 Newsletter Posts: Experimentation & Analysis
How to Effectively Leverage User Insights for Better Product Decisions
by Reshu Rathi
A funnel is just part of the story
by Alon Binman
The gist: a simple way to boost conversion
by Kyle Poyar
How To Develop a Highly Trusted Experiment Analysis Workflow
by Chetan Sharma and Olga Berezovsky
Developing an analytics-driven framework for mobility product development
by Ryan Lingo
On Scaling Startup Analytics: Preserving Expertise and Speed
by Gage
Strategy Experimentation: How to Choose a Strategy?
by Farid Asadi
What is the difference in product feature usage between free and paid users?
by Paul Levchuk
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📰 Best 10 Newsletter Posts: Agile & Product Ownership
Growth KPIs & Company OKRs: combining the two
by Pedro Clivati
Aligning Sales with Scrum Teams
by Kevin Bendeler
How to create atomic problem statements?
by Sai Kumar
Companies Will Fail Until They Can Overcome their Fear of The Unknown
by David Pereira
Meaningful Metrics for Agile Teams
by Anna Hambarian
Succeed as a Designer on Agile Teams
by Saagarshrest
Refining Our Backlog Triggers an Ambivalent Feeling
by Staffan Nöteberg
Product Owners and UX Designers: Set the Seal on the Strongest Relationship
by Pedro M. S. Duarte
The GEAR Framework — Tractian’s Agile Engineering Culture
by Igor Marinelli
When the Product Owner does not know the product
by florinelchis
⭐ My favorite article this week from each category
Product Management
Ten Things I Wish I Learned Before I Started My Career
by Charlene Lee
Growth
Funnel failures lead to a 21x impact on revenue when new learnings are carried over effectively
by Nader Sabry
Strategy
The dream of bringing back Bell Labs
by Noah Smith
User Experience, Research, & Design
Are we even affording right?
by Aaron Cecchini-Butler
Experimentation & Analysis
The gist: a simple way to boost conversion
by Kyle Poyar
Agile & Product Ownership
Growth KPIs & Company OKRs: combining the two
by Pedro Clivati
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🏆 Top 10 Most Popular Articles From Last Week!
Out of the 53 articles we shared last week, the following are the top 10 articles our community clicked on the most.
#10 - 5 Techniques For Effective User Onboarding
by Nick Babich
#9 - The 10 principles of product discovery
by Martin Spinnangr
#8 - How I identified and fixed my recent communication problem as a Product Manager
by Dr Bart Jaworski
#7 - Why Your Team Needs a Weekly Metrics Review
by Julie Zhuo
#6 - Riskiest Assumption Test (RAT): Why It’s a Better Framing Than Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
by Akash Mukherjee
#5 - How Spotify leads the way in gamification marketing in the music industry
by Matt Revnew
#4 - Assessing the Effectiveness of PMs
by Deepak Singh
#3 - Forget consumer journeys. Here’s how (and why) to build a Persuasion Journey instead
by Michelle Wiles
#2 - How we can take the Jobs To Be Done framework to the next level and beyond
by Laure X Cast
#1 - How a hard pivot helped Hopper take over the travel industry
by Leo Leo
There you have it! 58 of the best articles of the last week, my favorites, and the top 10 favorites of our community from the previous week.
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