Startup Weekly Snippets: The Oh, Fuck Moments | Talk to Your Users | Understand Your Users
We have a weekly journal, wherein we publish 8 curated articles. These are chosen for the strength of their content with a strong bias towards actionable suggestions and advice.
We believe (and find) these have and continue to help founders and teams build their startups.
Below, some of our growth-centric selections, from a few previous editions.
The Oh, Fuck Moments
Growth will always be a bumpy ride with hiccups — plenty of ‘Oh, Fuck!’ moments, if you will. Each of these moments need proper analysis and action. On your growth journey, if one fine day you do find yourself in a ditch, follow Jeff’s advice here — don’t relax, go crazy!
Act like a maniac, freak out, force yourself and your team to figure what went wrong, what affected things — figure the root cause of the fall, even if you need to assume it is self-inflicted, do it — but find the problem, and figure how to scale back.
It is only in a maddening situation, that you will pressure the team and yourself to work harder, and come back to where you were.
If not, well at least you learnt something, right?!
Talk to Your Users
While data-crunching definitely gets you places, there’s one hack that has *always* helps — talking to the user! Communication helps you form a directory with pain points, competitor info, user profiling, etc., presenting a clearer picture for you on your product.
5 simple tricks for simplifying talking to your users — a must read!
Understand your Users
This one is about focus on users again (we do believe they’re just that important to keep an eye on!).
Get to know how the product works for your users, it’ll help you a lot! This article helps understand the how users can influence the product, and how you can tap it for your own good and use them as growth tools in themselves.
With 6 steps to level up your game, without spending much, this is definitely a to the point read.
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