Sales Funnel Metrics - Acquistion, Activation, Retention (esp Bounce rate), Referral, Revenue - 2007-12-31-McclurePirateMetrics (more)

ability to keep a customer, get more money over time (SaaS renewal, multiple purchases, etc.) - cf true fan - special metric: Bounce rate

Phil Libin presents (video) his Model to Answer All Startup Growth Questions. (cf Growth Hacking, Business Model, System Dynamics). He makes a State Machine which basically tracks the number of users flowing each month among various states (low-value user, high-value user, inactive).... (more)

term I use for pages in my WikiLog and PrivateWiki that are date-stamped, more like a WebLog post than a Wiki page. (more)

Sari Azout: My favorite questions (favorite problem). Most productivity advice is BS, and I say this as the founder of a “personal knowledge management tool” (sublime.app). The only productivity advice that matters is getting clarity on what matters to you. You just feel differently about the world when you know what you care about. (more)

Ted Gioia: My 12 Favorite Problems. I’ve benefited in my own life by asking the same questions over and over—for a period of decades. (more)

Group Discussion process alternative to Brainstorming. From GoogleVentures DesignSprint team. (more)

This is our jam: How Postlight kickstarts every idea with a real Product Plan. (more)

Pitch: Lightning Decision Jam, or LDJ as it is commonly called, is the perfect workshop to solve big problems, quickly. It helps you replace all open-ended, unstructured meetings with a clear process. Instead of never-ending discussions and constant back-and-forth, you can use this simple exercise to encourage creativity and foster innovation. It only takes about 40 minutes to run and always leaves you and your team feeling involved, energised, productive - and it gives you tangible, actionable results. https://go.ajsmart.com/ldj (more)

a generative question framing, coming from Design Sprint team... helps pivot from single-Solution to Opportunity identification and multi-idea generation https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/methodology/phase1-understand/hmw-sharing-and-affinity-mapping

Andy Matuschak is trying to use SRS in multiple ways. (more)

Gordon Brander: Questions as tools for thinking (thinking tools). To use a programming analogy, if facts are like data, then questions are like functions. When you ask the question in different contexts, it generates different answers. (more)

John Cutler TBM 229: Winnable and Unwinnable Games (Part 1). Imagine a framework or a way of working as a game (more)

Remco Snijders: The (remote) magic of collaborative note-taking. Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone, including yourself, was eagerly taking notes but you failed to see any results of people’s effort? (more)

Jason Cohen: Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect. Here’s some common examples so you can train your pattern-matching engine, and see how to navigate the conversations. (more)

software thinking tools, incl Digital Garden, ThinkingSpace, NoteTaking, PIM, PKM, ToDoList, Collaboration Ware (more)

Dev who's 10x faster (velocity) than anyone else? Company changing a lot (Think Big)? (For the latter, I often use 4x as a framing because 2x feels incrementally-reachable, and 10x feels too pie-in-the-sky.)

aka Unique Value Proposition, see also Positioning

TeamWiki WikiEngine from Atlassian http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ (more)

Martin Cagan: Alternatives To Product Managers. I doubt anyone is surprised to learn that many people have been asking me about Brian Chesky’s recent comments. ((2023-11-14) Brian Chesky's New Playbook) (more)