Author: madhur
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A short note on developing skepticism
It’s easy to be be a believer, it gives you sense of purpose, a sense of comfort, but if you really want to succeed, you need to be a bit of a skeptic.
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The Uselessness of Net Promoter Score
While NPS(Net promoter score) maybe an extremely popular metric to understand customer loyalty, there is little evidence to support it’s claims. In this article I detail out everything from history of NPS, to uses, to issues
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Curious Case of Chingari app’s high Views and Likes
After getting 1 M views and 82000 likes on chingari app with dummy videos, I did a test.
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Twitter as Identity and Social Capital management
How twitter can unleash the beast by becoming the consumer facing identity and social capital management system
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My Work From Home setup
How I set up a functional, productive, and comfortable work from home area. Everything from a standing desk to gaming chair, to VC setup, to wire organisers
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Just make it work
Being best at the most important promise you make to the user is the key element, rest all is bells and whistles
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Negative signalling: Being bad on purpose
Not all knowledge or certification is going to be good for you. You need to sometimes make yourself ineligible for jobs you don’t want to do. Be bad at them on purpose. Amassing certifications and varied skills increases our likelihood of us landing a job, but it can also reduces our chances of landing the…
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Why Twitter will never and should never have an edit button
Tweets are a system of records of a person’s opinion. Twitter is more valuable because it does not have edit.
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Validating your product hypothesis with a fake door test
You cannot and should not build every feature that is there in your backlog. One way many companies, especially startups, gauge the need of a specific feature is via a Fake door test. What is a Fake door test To put it simply, instead of building the feature your product simply pretends to have that…
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Product Strategy – Marty Cagan
Listened to a great talk on product strategy by Marty Cagan, author or Inspired . Here is a summary, you can also listen to the talk embedded below