January 7th · Issue #1

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Startup & Product Management 🚀

• Dan Hill, Product Director @Airbnb, shares a list of observations on what successful Product Management looks like
• Brian Balfour, CEO @Reforge, on why retention can be the silent killer of a high-growth startup
• May Wang, Product Designer @Evernote, blogs on 7 insights on Growth Design and how to apply them to your product

Digital Strategy and Trends 🔀

• McKinsey Quarterly on how companies must compete in a digitalised world without borders
• Discover how much mathematics does an IT engineer (or any other professional) have to learn to work in Data Science and Machine Learning
• Learning about the e-Residency program of one the most advanced digital societies: Estonia

Crypto and Finance 📈

• Must-read article that describes the economics of how the Bitcoin model works
• Elad Gil, on why network effects will help Bitcoin maintain its status as the primary value store, despite it’s technological flaws

Must-listen Podcasts 🎧

• Brad Katsuyama, founder of the IEX exchange, explains how stock exchanges work, and why trading fees are not their main source of revenue
• Barry O-Reilly talks about what is hypothesis-driven testing, and why does it matter

Interesting Reads 🤓

• Atlassian blogs on how one’s emotions can affect productivity

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