Chad Distribution Product Product Development 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). This also literally can’t catch every problem, because your test sandboxes or test clusters will never be exactly like the production system. But I will tell you not to have too little or too much, because those definitely ruin the food or product.
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ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2018
Understand growth accounting – new, resurrected vs churned = net growth (can also look at this at feature level, not only product). Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1.
ConversionXL
OCTOBER 19, 2017
It’s important to know the most efficient way to arrange your optimization team to ensure their productivity and yours. Or under product teams? In decentralized (or “embedded”) teams, optimization responsibilities are distributed amongst employees under many different umbrellas within the organization, rather than one department.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Remember that story I told about the three business school students telling me about their tech startup, leaving me to wonder who’d actually build the product? Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought.
ConversionXL
APRIL 3, 2019
Conversion teams: 6–8 week experiment cycles; Marketing teams: Prepare, campaign, prepare, campaign; Product teams: 2-week sprints. Conversion/Optimization teams might become a nightmare for marketing and product teams. Product and marketing teams should be involved. Why our CRO jobs will die: Teams operate at different paces.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly.
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