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Solving Mobile Growth & Retention with Andy Carvell, ex Growth at SoundCloud

Brian Balfour

Andy Carvell joined SoundCloud in 2012, when the company was just over 80 employees and 10 million monthly active users. The catch was that they’d have to AB test it against the existing client side notifications, with additional complexity around handling the rollout up to production. “We Let's push them live.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States. Historically, some platforms haven’t embraced localization because the allure of quick scaling was too much to resist.

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Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea

Harvard Business Review

Mindful that many large transformation programs run into difficulties because of scope complexity and traditional “ waterfall ” software development, Shuttleworth and the team used a design-led approach combined with scaled agile delivery. Moreover, customer reactions to the prototypes were beginning to produce some data.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. Early on, providers using BHDP expressed concern about the time required for soldiers to complete the standardized screening instruments before they actually saw the provider.

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Better Place started selling cars in Israel and Denmark in late 2012. When Better Place was founded, its strategy called for initial rollouts in Israel and Denmark. What Went Wrong? The shallow answer is not enough customers. By May 2013 it had sold fewer than 3,000 vehicles. A small number, but these are also small markets.