Codenamed ?Moments?, Facebook Has Built An App For Super-Private Sharing
Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It?s clumsy and confusing doing that with the same composer for blasting News Feed updates to everyone. But now Facebook is polishing off a new app codenamed ?Moments? designed to make this micro-sharing much simpler, multiple sources tell TechCrunch, including one who has seen a live internal version of the app.
How top startups pay designers
A few weeks ago I had coffee with an experienced product designer. Let?s call him Carl. He?d been working at a respected San Francisco startup for five years, but he was getting restless. Carl had excellent experience and skills.
How Emotion Drives Customer Action in Startup Marketing
Contrary to popular belief, startup marketing is not all about quantitative metrics and growth hacking. It?s time to start mapping out what creates a connection between you and your customer. Specifically, I am talking about driving customer actions by leveraging human emotion through the art of storytelling.
Here?s what you can earn at the 20 top tech companies
While there?s debate over whether there?s a shortage of qualified tech workers, there?s one thing no one argues about: Tech companies pay their employees well.
11 Key Insights from the Boston Sales Hacker 2014 Conference
Max Altschuler sums up some of the key findings from the info-packed Boston Sales Hacker 2014 Conference. If you?re located in the Western US, check out the San Francisco Sales Hacker Conference on November 6th.
4 Easy Ways To Maximize Your User Acquisition Strategy
Paying for app installs? Hoping to acquire new users by increasing your ad network budget? Mobile users are hard to get and easy to lose. Here are four tips to make the most of your user acquisition efforts before it?s too late.
Wireframes are no longer enough.
Ability to wireframe is probably one of the most mentioned skills on a product mangers resume. It used to be that you would walk into an interview and explain that as a part of your process for product development you would jump into Balsamiq or some other mockup tool and throw together wires for your suggested feature. This would lead to handing wires over to the Design team which in turn would hand off designs to engineers after receiving PM blessing and stakeholder buy in.
Mailchimp?s ?Manage replies? is killing your open rates, and here?s the data to prove it
Not all features are good features. And it looks like that?s the case for a seemingly cool feature Mailchimp introduced a while back, namely Manage Replies.
From Data to Insights: The Blueprint for Your Business
Many businesses use data to support their decisions instead of drive their actions. But why? After all, data is really only valuable if you can translate it into actionable insights. Gaining these insights starts with figuring out what you want from your data?finding its value. Here we talk about the questions you should ask regarding the context, need, vision and outcome of your data, and we offer a helpful framework for turning that data into meaningful stories and business successes.
How to be the most productive person in your office ? and still get home by 5:30 p.m.
Some days the to-do list seems bottomless. Just looking at it is exhausting.