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Thursday, 30/1/2020

GROWTH: Joey DeBruin, Head of Product at ResearchGate, reflects on how the scientific method can be applied to understanding a company’s key metrics through different phases of growth, crisis, and disruption: From Einstein to Bezos: What Science Can Teach Us About Creating and Disrupting Growth Models

PRODUCT: Tim Darling of Product Management Insider shares thoughts on how to get consumers to use a product daily, and points out how businesses should have a usage value proposition for their product and cites how LinkedIn, Zillow and Amazon manage to make their users get involved on a daily basis: How to Get Users to Use Your Product on a Daily Basis

FOUNDER INTERVIEW: Garry Tan of Posthaven interviews Parker Conrad, Founder of Rippling, on the pros of building engineering teams outside San Francisco, the key factors to consider in order to build a remote team the right way, why engineers must do customer support and more: Parker Conrad on building eng teams outside of SF and why engineers must do customer support (Part 2)

FOUNDER INTERVIEW: Nick Moran of The Full Ratchet speaks with Minnie Ingersoll of TenOneTen Ventures about how to handle business failure, the importance of resilience for founders, what it’s like building a venture-backed startup as a woman, how are the challenges for women similar and different as a founder vs. investor and more: 204. Embracing Failure, Capitalizing on Crisis & Building Resilience (Minnie Ingersoll) | The Full Ratchet

GROWTH: Benjamin Brandall of Chameleon walks through several successful platform and marketing strategies for SaaS companies in: 12 SaaS Growth Marketing Strategies That Worked For Real Products

STRATEGY: Dave Kellogg, CEO at Host Analytics, on the questions that SaaS founders and CEOs should be able to answer about their startups like who their target customer is, how do they solve a brand new problem, why is their service is superior to the status quo and more: Ten Questions Founder CEOs Should Always Be Able to Answer About Their Startups

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