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Here’s what you need to look for in a North Star Metric: As close as possible to the core value experience ... Aggregate number, not a rate or ratio—We’re looking for a number that will sum up the value across the entire market and potentially grow up-and-to-right over time... Simple and memorable—No North Star Metric is perfect. Some messages sent via WhatsApp may be spam, some items purchased on eBay may not be fully satisfactory to the buyer. That’s fine as long as the number is still generally indicative of total value.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
Framework 1: The Strategy Triangle
Use this to quickly assess any strategic decision:
**Where to Play:**
- Which markets?
- Which customers?
- Which channels?
**How to Win:**
- What's our unique value?
- What capabilities do we need?
- What's our moat?
**Why Now:**
- Why is this the right timing?
- What's changed in the market?
- What enables us now?
How to Nail Your Product Strategy Interview
Aakash Gupta
One bit of advice I give writers is to see each draft as a hypothesis or experiment: your job is to gather data to test that version of the manuscript and figure out what’s wrong with it. If it fails, it doesn’t mean that you have failed, but only that the current experiment has. So you redesign it. Shift your emphasis off the personal and back toward the product. Perspective is everything!
Write Useful Books
Rob Fitzpatrick und Adam Rosen
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