Simple Productivity Rituals
Three simple productivity hacks I’ve been using for years and how to adopt them for yourself tomorrow
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Velocity You Can Feel
Velocity should be qualitative, not quantitative, in early and growth-stage startups
The Process of Writing Processes
Know your audience and write a well-structured document they can follow without additional context
Diamond Processing for Product Managers
Make your products shine by cutting the excess and taking the time to polish the user experience
The Two Trains Metaphor and Instant Tech Debt
The most important part of making a “new” way of doing things is deprecating the “old” way
Discarding Features is Important Product Work
If there’s part of the product that never gets used or doesn’t deliver value, it’s time to consider removing it
Design Principles
A simple but powerful tool to keep your product experience consistent and guide your decision-making
The two key types of product risk and how to manage them
There are things we don’t know and things we can’t know, de-risk the former and test the latter.
Are you taking statistical significance too seriously?
In product, business significance is more important than statistical significance so make sure you’re not over-emphasizing stat sig.
Beware Overfitting Your Product Solutions
Using and acting on all data isn’t always ideal, don’t fall into the trap of trying to be everything to everyone.
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My content elsewhere online
Whether on Product School, Products That Count, or ProductCraft -- you'll find my articles, videos, and podcast content across the web. Here's some of my favorites
Tools I Recommend for Startups & Product Managers 2021
People ask me to recommend tools all the time, so I made this page as a reference point for my most recommended software and tools for startups and product managers.
10 Non-Obvious Tips For Startup Product Leaders
After 10 years working in product management, these are my top 10 non-obvious tips for succeeding in a product leadership role.
How – and why – I totally reinvented our company’s project reporting method
Spoiler: I also just finished reading Shape Up. Here’s how to apply it with Google Slides or PowerPoint
If your MVP feels like hard work, you’re probably doing it wrong
I propose we focus less on building MVPs and more on building MVEs – Minimum Viable Experiment.
Marketing Attribution Methods 101
Even with all the data in the world, you need to be smart with how you use it if you want to get an accurate picture.
Please Tell Me You Have A Backup…
The cloud is a *terrible* backup strategy! Let's cover why and what you should be doing instead.
Secrets to Scaling A People-Intensive Business with Will Davies from Car Next Door
Will attributes his success with Car Next Door to three pillars - Building The Team, Getting Stuff Done, and World-Class Systems.
Insider Secrets for High Impact Growth with Sean Ellis
Lessons on how to crush it at Growth with the man who coined the term 'growth hacking' in 2010 and popularized the term product/market fit.
The Single Best Book I’ve Read In The Last 2 Years [seriously]
My friend Nikki asked me to recommend an internet marketing book yesterday – she’s getting on a plane to Canada today so wanted something interesting to keep her busy. Only…
TechCrunch Article Proves Even Experts Don’t Understand Campaign Tracking!
I was reading this article from TechCrunch and it seems even Marketing Experts aren’t harnessing the campaign tracking of Google Analytics. The article missed an important point — Google Analytics…
The IRS Email Sequence
This email sequence is one of the fastest and easiest campaigns to create - in this post you'll be walked through the exact formula step-by-step.
That awkard moment when your costs double…
A snapshot of the real-life challenges of launching an eCommerce business.
The $2.4M Decision-Making Framework from Jayride’s Rod Bishop
A Carefully Structured Formula for Speed, Cohesion, and Minimised Key-Person Risk
Case Study: Designing a simple UI/UX for a complex process – Login with 2-factor auth
I came across this article today and couldn't help but share it with you.
7 Ways To Growth Hack eCommerce in 2015
My top predictions and tactics for rapidly accelerating the growth of your eCommerce business in 2015.
Parallax Paralysis
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the software of the web isn’t ready for the influx of parallax backgrounds that are flooding the web. What…
4 Reasons You’re Crazy If You Don’t Own A Kindle (If You’re An Entrepreneur)
1. It saves you time I hated having to wait two weeks for a book to arrive from Amazon. By the time it got to my door, I’d lost the…
Does Money Stifle Creativity?
According to Fast Company magazine and a study by MIT, paying people to be creative or productive is often counter productive. The MIT study offered three levels of monetary incentive…
Is your startup idea a jumping pony?
Have you ever seen a business pitch that was brilliant? Have you ever seen a business pitch that was incredibly interesting, creative and clever yet lacked something and left you…
So you’re thinking about raising capital?
As a seed stage business, it is often tempting to raise money to give you business a kick start. More money means more options, right? What