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Apr 20

Daily Feed — Growth

I spend some time listening to podcasts and write down notes VC20–2/16/2022 Retention & Engagement > Acquisition Growth should focus these more than acquisition.That’s what FB and most other companies now do. Uber key take-aways Important to focus on needle-movers — add more drivers to solve the bottleneck for a…

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Mar 2

Company Analysis — Pinterest

Company Overview — How Pinterest Generates Revenue Revenue is generated through ads. Advertisers purchase ads directly with Pinterest through advertising agencies. Charges are on cost per click (CPC), cost per thousand impressions (CPM), cost per (video ad) view (CPV) basis. Pinterest’s Cost of Revenue Cost of Revenue is primarily cost of hosting application…

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Company Analysis — Pinterest
Company Analysis — Pinterest

Mar 1

Hooked Model

Before we start — Who should care and what should you use Hooked Model for — Hooked Model is designed to answer the question of how users become sticky users of an app/product. In other words, Hooked Model can be used to improve your product-market-fit, drive better organic user acquisitions, engagements, and retention rates. …

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Mar 1

Company Analysis — Keep

Keep is a Chinese mobile fitness app that allows users to follow instructions in video-format courses. It also sells fitness equipment. Recently Keep filed for IPO in HongKong, and let’s take a deep dive. Core Metrics MAU MAU has being steadily growing since the past 3 years, but the growth is also…

Keep

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Company Analysis — Keep
Company Analysis — Keep

Feb 23

Understand Products Better— a Trigger Theory

— — — -This article serves as my daily product thoughts — — — — - Triggers in the product world It is often challenging for product people to understand products from the user perspective. The author of hooked provides a “trigger theory”, which I think offers a structured way of thinking of the fundamental…

Product Management

3 min read


Feb 21

How Products Win— A Habit Zone Theory

— — — This article serves as my daily thoughts on product— — — - Author of Hooked introduced the idea of Habit Zone, that looks like the one below: The idea of Habit zone is that, a successful product (one that’s able to retain users) lies somewhere within the…

Product Management

5 min read

Habit Zone
Habit Zone

Feb 18

My Attempt at Explaining Why Clubhouse Failed

This article serves as my daily thoughts on product. Officially launched in Oct 2020, Clubhouse was the most viral app in US during the first half of 2021, but 12 months later almost nobody talks about it. …

Product

5 min read

Clubhouse Analysis
Clubhouse Analysis
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