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Initiator Creator - Issue #141 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 5 May 2024 Entrepreneur How Perplexity Builds Product - Lenny's newsletter Johnny Ho, co-founder and head of product, explains how he organizes his teams like slime mold, uses AI to build their AI company. How to Price an Early Stage B2B Software Product - Focused chaos Talk to customers, but don't ask what they'd pay. Keep it simple and understand how they buy. Don't give your investors common stock - Substack Keep it simple and separate – preferred stock for money, common stock for effort. The Science Of Project Estimates - DPM Everything you need to know about project estimates: the pros and cons of each estimation technique, what to know before creating an estimate Startup Canvas: Product Strategy and a Business Model for a New Product - Product Compass Key questions to ask. A recommended approach. An editable template of the Startup Canvas to download. MarketerGuide to Product Marketing for startups - Medium A primer on Product Marketing, including best practices and insider perspectives from Amy Saper's time at Stripe, Twitter and Uber How Content Creators Build Brand Culture - Amsive Content creators have become brand architects, building and shaping a company’s identity. Their ability to showcase products in an authentic and engaging way resonates with audiences to foster trust and encourage brand loyalty. Why Big Companies Make Bad Content - Ahref It’s like death and taxes: inevitable. The bigger a company gets, the worse its content marketing becomes. 7 fails of roadmap-making - Leah's ProducTea The most common potholes to avoid when creating long-term plans. Developer Why reading whitepapers takes your career to the next level - High growth engineer "As a tech lead at Google, one of the highest-impact activities for my growth has been reading cutting-edge academic computer science papers." - Micah Learns Why SQLite Uses Bytecode - Sqlite Bytecode provides a clear separation between front-end parsing and analysis and back-end evaluation of an SQL statement. When problems arise, the developers can examine the bytecode to quickly determine if the source of the trouble is either the front-end analysis or the back-end data storage section of the product. YouTube.js: A wrapper around YouTube's internal API — reverse engineering InnerTube - Github This library manages all low-level communication with InnerTube, providing a simple and efficient way to interact with YouTube programmatically. PySheets - Spreadsheet UI for Python - PySheets Load data and use AI to generate Python code to perform data exploration Popover API is Here - FrontEnd Masters The Popover API has support across browsers now, and apparently the new way to say that is “landed in Baseline” Designer The project that shifted my perspective as a designer - Pinterest "the complexity of the business-facing side of the product can truly drive creativity and innovation — and it helped me grow as a product designer." - Frances Lee Making Product Value Obvious - Lukew The most valuable contribution product designers can make to software is making the core value of a product clear to the people using it. Affinity Diagramming: Collaboratively Sort UX Findings & Design Ideas - NN/g Use affinity diagramming to cluster and organize research findings or to sort design ideas in ideation workshops. Variables in Figma - Design Good Practices Beautiful UI components for React, lovingly crafted with the Wedges Design System, Radix UI, and Tailwind CSS. Adobe's Project Neo - Adobe Supercharge 2D designs with 3D magic. Interesting Read 7 Questions That Changed My Life - Sahil Bloom The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers, but from asking the right questions. Why We Buy: The Role of Comparison in Our Spending Choices - Becoming Minimalist We often end up purchasing things we don’t need and chasing things that don’t satisfy. All because we are trying to keep up with our assumptions about how well life must be going for everyone else. Schopenhauer’s Strategy Against Clickbait - Fs Not all writing is worth reading. Just because someone can put words on a page doesn’t mean they are worth reading or add value. Community Submissions If you like to share a project or article with the rest of the readers then please DM me at @ICforpreneurs or hit reply Outro 🙏Thank you for reading Initiator Creator issue #141 Forward to a Peer and let them know where they can subscribe Initiator Creator. Want to get featured? Submit an article for us to include or hit reply. Anything else? Hit reply to send us feedback, review or say hello. |
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Initiator Creator - Issue #140 - ( Read in browser ) By Saurabh Y. // 28 April 2024 Presented by DesignThingy This Week's Notes:Directionless bull All our efforts get wasted when we get stuck in the cycle of directionless efforts to get better outcomes. A directionless effort is a bigger blunder than a wrong-direction approach. After all, you can’t say which direction is good or bad without reaching the outcomes, but changing your direction frequently will take you nowhere. You will be lost...
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