Quick blog post to congratulate my sister Ada Chen and her husband Sachin Rekhi, who have just announced the acquisition of their startup Connected to LinkedIn. The company was backed by a seed inves...
Yesterday I attended the 500Startups demo day – it was a fun event and will be interesting to compare to the YC demo day coming up later this month as well. For everyone who didn’t make i...
A product I use every day This morning I got a very nice email from the Spotify folks- it’s a product that I’ve become a big fan of- I’ve used it for over a year. One of their early...
The “Ultimate Driving Machine” is a classic slogan that makes BMW compete based on position, not features. It’s hard to keep things simple, especially when adding so many new featur...
This is reposted from my answer on Quora here. Question: What UX considerations were built into Google+? The most interesting design choice I’ve seen for G+ has been deploying it across all the...
Simple products aren’t only better designed, they’re easier to market too. Marketing and product UX are seen as conflicting with one another, but there are, in fact, many opportunities fo...
There’s more than one way to use this tool A/B testing is a very useful tool that can be used to develop better product designs, rather than just evaluating landing pages. In a classic A/B test...
Do you live outside of Silicon Valley? Watch this video For all the startups and entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley, I want to direct you to this incredible summary by Naval Ravikant of AngelLis...
Does anyone care about your new product? A question every entrepreneur asks is, if I build it will they come? You can have a cool idea for a new product, but how do you know if anyone cares about it?...
There’s been some excellent Groupon analysis Since the S-1 has come out, there’s been some incredible analysis done – two of my favorites are Rakesh Agrawal’s Quora answer on ...
Today we have a guest post from my sister Ada Chen Rekhi about user acquisition based on experiences at her new startup Connected. Connected is a new contact management product they’re working ...
I’ve had two recent conversations in which people have mentioned the “grow first, monetize later” philosophy as one of the signs of the coming bubble apocalypse, and this post is to...
This post is part of my recent 2011 blogging roadmap post, where I created an outline of going from zero to product/market fit. Getting to this endpoint is obviously a good goal in theory, but questi...
One important question that comes up all the time is, what makes a product easy to market? I had a fun chat about the topic with Eric Florenzano and Eric Maguire who worked together at Mochi Media w...
I’m going to try to start blogging again! It’s been a long time since I was in a good blogging rhythm, and I’m going to try to start doing it again In preparation for this, I put to...
Wanted to quickly plug my friend Noah Kagan’s new company, AppSumo, which has a pretty epic Lean Startup bundle of software available. You can see the latest deal here. It has about $6,620 wort...
Joshua’s slides on Metrics-Driven Design got tweeted out during SXSW and I wanted to share them. In general, I think all of the various MVP/customer-development oriented startups out there are ...
I’ve been struggling with trying to blog more often yet being in the mood to write the kinds of posts that I do. Quora helps a little bit, but I find myself mostly just tweeting instead Anyway,...
I wrote this on Quora a while back, but forgot to cross-pollinate it on my blog, so apologies if you’re seeing this twice. As those who have been following this blog know, I had a great deal of...
I posted this answer to Quora and figured I would share it here as well. You can find me on Quora here. What are the best metrics for measuring user engagement? Metrics are merely a reflection of the...
I posted this answer to Quora and figured I would share it here as well. You can find me on Quora here. What is considered a significant number of users for a free consumer internet product? If it...
Silicon Valley is mean to MBAs This tumblr, Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey, made me laugh. It’s full of emails from clueless Wharton MBAs which read like this: LOL right? This also reminds me of ...
Per my previous post on Quora’s stats via the Facebook interface, I wanted to also share another hot startup at the moment, Instagram. Obviously you can use Instagram without Facebook- for exam...
I ♥ Quora. Oh yes, I’m a fanboy. As my many of my friends and family know, I love Quora and get a ton of value out of it. It’s incredible to see what some of the most intelligent and infl...
Just returning briefly from blog vacation to share a couple links and slides I had collected on retention metrics. There’s so little public information out there that I wanted to call out the v...
Just wanted to briefly emerge from blog vacation and plug the Lean Startup Bundle which includes a bunch of ebooks and services – you can see all the details here. My blog is one of the eBooks,...
Minimum Desirable Product (if you don’t see the slides, go here to Slideshare) Recent slides for a talk in Steve Blank / Eric Ries’s class on High-Tech Entrepreneurship Yesterday I had th...
Just a quick FYI on an upcoming conference – here’s the details if you’re interested: Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes ...
I was recently invited to lead a session on customer acquisition and viral marketing at the First Round Capital CEO Summit (thanks Josh!). I wanted to share the notes I prepared for the discussion be...
Congrats to my sister Ada Chen, one of the first 10 employees at Mochi Media. I introduced her to Jameson (Mochi’s CEO and co-founder) back when she was first moving down to the Bay Area, and s...
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