Andrew Chen
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06 May, 2015
Why we should aim to build a forever company, not just a unicorn
“Unicorn company.” It’s the latest bit of jargon that’s infected our conversations here in the Bay Area, to the point ......
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01 April, 2014
How to design successful social products with 3 habit-forming feedback loops
Social products share a common ancestry and set of problemsIt’s been a decade after Friendster popularized the notion of the ......
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16 May, 2013
The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business
How healthy is your SaaS business?We’re bombarded with KPIs and an endless series of metrics to tell us how we’re ......
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02 May, 2013
The death of RSS
I recently wrote a blog post about moving all my RSS readers to email subscriptions, and I immediately got 30+ ......
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24 April, 2013
Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform
Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, and others ......
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10 April, 2013
Why are we so bad at predicting startup success?
One of my favorite reads this year was Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise which has the subtitle “Why ......