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Going global 🌐

How PostHog Grows: The Power of Being Open-Core

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#81)

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#80)

How June Grows: Winning By Doing The Opposite

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#79)

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#78)

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#77)

Um, this is nuts! 🤯

Do you love the game?

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#76)

🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#75)

8 lessons from my first startup investment

5 interesting insights from the week (#74)

The simplest (and best) way to know if a problem is real

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The gaming gambit, the AI price-fixing dystopia, seeing Supertrends, what's left in tech, and more

100 books to help you grow

5-Bit Fridays: The end of the homepage, sharing the right details, boring signup screens, the Market Problem Map, and my face on a billboard

5-Bit Fridays: The magic of small engineering teams, mastering the founder letter, The Traction Framework, how to evaluate a company, and saying sorry

Is this thing on?

5-Bit Fridays: Where To Play/How To Win, taking bolder bets, the name trick, and more

How CommandBar Grows: Owning the PLG-as-a-Service Layer

5-Bit Fridays: UX blunders, the cardinal sin, the ROI of beauty, and managing up

The New Couch Problem

5-Bit Fridays: Power user strategies, the power of 'no' in your next negotiation, losing your competitiveness, and more

How Dovetail Grows: 15 ideas you can borrow from their journey building the $1B insights hub

5-Bit Fridays: Doing things right vs doing the right thing, simplicity scales; complexity fails, and your untapped growth lever

5-Bit Fridays: Try this approach to finding a startup idea

My favorite resources

Partner with How They Grow

5-Bit Fridays: Are you still using crutches?

Introducing the new version of 5-Bit Fridays

How Shopify Grows: Part 2

How Attio Grows: The Playbook For Disrupting a $280B Giant

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Product lessons from the West’s politics on Russia, novelties and dopamine, pre-mortems, brand ROI, and what's the right question?

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Developing finesse, fixing product debt, avoiding roadmap failures, writing-building, and more

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Why everything is becoming a game, pattern breaking startup ideas, Generalist Disease, strategy is scarcity, and more

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Tactics to raise product quality, luxury software, non-obvious interview techniques, the dark side of sales, and more

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Comparative advantages, the anatomy of a Super Bowl ad, superlinear returns, 10 strategy questions, and optimizing your fundraising

How Amplitude Grows: Making Moneyballers

How Figma Grows: Design Beyond Designers

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Societal waves, overfitting, engineering crits, attention vs anxiety, and the soul of your

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The time-boxed startup, the #1 skill execs need, compelling business cases, why reason fails, and how Google compromised their product

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Supercommunication, pursuits that can't scale, from boring to viral, addition by subtraction, and more

Who even asked for spatial computing?

How do the greatest companies win?

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: When your TAM is nonsense, letting good things die, why growth models fail, the shadow or rituals, and more

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: The psychology of Apple packaging, idea size testing, more features more problems, supercharging decision making, and more

How Arc Grows: Building The New Window Into The Internet

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Are your standards too low, untapped growth opportunities, framing problems, and the power of investor updates

Good Acquisition, Bad Acquisition

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Stop serving the compliment sandwich, the end of the knowledge economy, choosing risks, and more

What kills velocity

How beehiiv Grows: Becoming The Sweetest Newsletter Platform

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: Turning costs into profits, retention pipelines, building second products, and are you fucking around enough?

🌱 5-Bit Fridays: How to win on the internet, water bottles and viral growth, the hard question to ask when planning your strategy, and more

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