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Rethinking Business Cards for a Digital Era

Association Now Workplace

Digital Business Card User Experience When Burniske started at Meta-Dao, the company didn’t have standard business cards it gave to staff, so he was free to experiment and take a thoughtful approach to his card. “In In my line of work, we spend a lot of time thinking about user experience.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

For instance, Care.com carves off the Childcare section of Craigslist, and provides tech value-add in the form of filters, structured information, and other features to improve the customer experience of finding a local caregiver. It’s a huge leap in terms of user experience over Craigslist’s Childcare section.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Thinking about new user experience, engagement metrics, and other important concepts. As part of that, as folks search for important concepts like “product market fit” and “user growth” – my essays are often on the front page. One evolution is the number of books and conferences now dedicated to growth.

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. If you are working on a product in real estate that competes with Redfin, the expert skill is probably figuring out how to capture high-intent traffic — like SEO/SEM.

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Google's Strategic Mistakes Drove Motorola Buy

Harvard Business Review

Finally, some vendors modified the software resulting in missing features or inconsistent user experiences — even to the extent that Google's own services were omitted. The company is thus no longer just a plumber but also a house builder and real estate developer.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Facebook’s News Feed stream is an incredibly valuable piece of digital real estate, without historical precedent. Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. Over 968 million people access it daily. Close to 1.5

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The Trade-Off Every AI Company Will Face

Harvard Business Review

Many users report enjoying using the application even when it has a 70% failure rate (i.e., The reason for this high tolerance for error is that the benefit of reduced composing and typing outweighs the cost of wasted screen real estate when the predicted short response is wrong.