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Mixpanel Updates Jul 25 2017
The growing opportunity for product analytics

In the first half of 2017, we opened two new offices: one in Salt Lake City, and our first international office in London. Across these offices and the others in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, our team has grown . . .

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How Clorox uses analytics to innovate after 105 years on top
Innovators Sep 19 2017
How Clorox uses analytics to innovate after 105 years on top

A quick Silicon Valley success story: a few years back, five Bay Area venture capitalists invested $100 each in a consumer packaged goods startup called “The Electro-Alkaline Company” that they believed was set to disrupt the garment cleaning industry. Clunky . . .

What developers and product need to know about iOS 11
Trends Sep 13 2017
What developers and product need to know about iOS 11

Yesterday, millions tuned in to watch the Tim Cook’s keynote presentation – or rumor confirmation – of Apple’s latest updates. As expected, the latest iPhone release(s) stole the show. But app developers had reason to pay attention to iOS 11 . . .

Post-mortem: Intermittent website outage
Mixpanel Updates Sep 8 2017
Post-mortem: Intermittent website outage

From August 17th to the 25th , some customers noticed intermittent failure to load pages on the Mixpanel web application. We apologize for the degraded reliability of our service. We’d like to explain the issue and the remedies we’ve implemented. . . .

Zuora’s CIO Alvina Antar on IT for success at scale
Grow & Tell Sep 7 2017
Zuora’s CIO Alvina Antar on IT for success at scale

Whatever you might have heard about tech’s tenure problem doesn’t apply here: Alvina Antar spent seventeen years at Dell, starting out as an engineer and eventually heading up IT’s Mergers & Acquisitions department. There, she built global technology teams from . . .

Frank Lessons on AI from the Developer of the World’s First Hotdog Recognizer
Product Aug 31 2017
Frank Lessons on AI from the Developer of the World’s First Hotdog Recognizer

Speculation about the future of artificial intelligence divides largely into two camps. The alarmist corner believes our technical advances risk the extermination of humanity by increasingly intelligent machines. This fear is fueled by the bad-boy of tech, Elon Musk, who’s . . .

Accenture’s Daniella Patrick on how HR is product management
Product Aug 29 2017
Accenture’s Daniella Patrick on how HR is product management

When Daniella Patrick was young, her grandmother told her, “study a ‘strong’ subject, like engineering. That way people take you seriously.” Despite showing a natural talent for subjects like literature and the arts, this was the early encouragement she received . . .

George Xing shares the data strategy behind Lyft’s explosive growth
Data  / Grow & Tell Aug 17 2017
George Xing shares the data strategy behind Lyft’s explosive growth

When it comes to talking data strategy, George Xing doesn’t mince words: “Data analysts do more than just produce ‘interesting insights.’’’ Companies should be able to measure the performance of their data and analytics teams quantitatively. Like any other employee, . . .

How Wistia used data to transform its customer acquisition strategy
Data  / Grow & Tell Aug 15 2017
How Wistia used data to transform its customer acquisition strategy

Andrew Capland wasn’t hired to do this job. Now the Director of Growth at Wistia, he originally joined the video hosting and analytics company to find out how to convert website visitors into account signups. But shortly into his tenure, . . .

Damien Peters on how technical a product manager really needs to be
Product Advice Aug 3 2017
Damien Peters on how technical a product manager really needs to be

From the early days of Microsoft, where you couldn’t be a PM unless you coded, to Amazon, which puts MBAs above Computer Science majors, there’s no standard background for product people. But for thousands of sprints, the question has haunted . . .

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