EDebrief · Best of the week · Issue #6
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3 min readFeb 12, 2018
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Startups & Product Management 🚀
- 6 min read — Introducing “The Customer Factory Blueprint”, an alternative to The Business Model Canvas, which uses just 7 metrics to replace all the numbers in a typical financial forecast spreadsheet
- 6 min read — Product “tear downs” are an effective way to keep Product Management skills sharp. At Yammer, folks from design, research and analytics “tear down” an interesting mobile or app every week [via Jens-Fabian Goetzmann]
- 10 min read — North Star Metrics are a popular approach to setting long term goals and focus across Product teams. But blindly buying into the concept on the one metric that matters may be a fatal oversimplification for a product
Digital Strategy and Trends 🔀
- 10 min read — The top most innovative companies in the world 2018, according to the Boston Consulting Group [via Boston Consulting Group]
- 24 min read — Agile organizations have five key elements in common: a North Star vision, a network of empowered teams, rapid learning cycles, a dynamic people model and next-generation enabling technology [via McKinsey Insights]
- 5 min read — Spotify’s uses an “Inclusion Index” to gauge how included Spotifiers feel [via Spotify HR blog]
Cryptocurrencies and Finance 📈
- 5 min read — Coinbase launches a new service for merchants, allowing them to integrate crypto payments similarly to Paypal
- 5 min read — VISA and Mastercard make it harder to buy cryptocurrencies by adding an additional 5% fee [via TechCrunch]
- 5 min read — Forbes list of cryptocurrency’s richest investors [via Forbes]
Interesting Reads 🤓
- 8 min read — Learning to unlearn — identifying the things that you can’t nurture, and letting them go — can be as important as learning new ones [via FastCompany]
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