How to Build Your Startup with No Technical Background or Budget
Draw on napkins. Better yet, take me out for beers and we'll both draw on napkins.
The CFO's guide to SaaS business metrics
As several of you know, my job is to manage a handful of SaaS (software as a service) apps. I've also had conversations with several of you that were asking about what exactly that entails, so here's a glimpse (spoiler alert, there are lots of acronyms).
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Crazy Egg cracks open its product roadmap process
Har har title puns. This is written about running digital products (like Curated, the newsletter service I use to send you these links), but I think it could be tweaked slightly to help you with any internal projects you do at work. The takeaway is that your team should work on projects that make your product/service more valuable to your customers. That means don't build things because you have hunches that it will make your product/service more valuable. Data > hunches.
A Ridiculously Simple Tool For Building Products People Love
I've read a tiny little bit on the Jobs To Be Done framework, so I can't comment much on that yet. But I think the proposed statement to align your team is really good, and I feel this guy on the "late adopter of Snapchat" situation. Honestly, still not entirely sure how that app works. But I open it sometimes.
How the blockchain is changing money and business
"Alexa, buy me some Bitcoins."
Definitely light, easy-listening kind of stuff here.
Vanity metrics, the future, and 100,000 thank yous - Inside Intercom
I use Intercom every day for customer support and customer data, so I'm a big fan. They make my life so much easier. I read their updates because they have a really fun voice and tone: it's like they don't necessarily know how all of this is going to work out but they're excited about it.