Startups & Product Management 🚀

• 6 min read – Introducing “The Customer Factory Blueprint“, an alternative to The Business Model Canvas, which uses just 7 metrics to replace all the numbers in a typical financial forecast spreadsheet
• 6 min read – Product “tear downs” are an effective way to keep Product Management skills sharp. At Yammer, folks from design, research and analytics “tear down” an interesting mobile or app every week [via Jens-Fabian Goetzmann]
• 10 min read – North Star Metrics are a popular approach to setting long term goals and focus across Product teams. But blindly buying into the concept on the one metric that matters may be a fatal oversimplification for a product

Digital Strategy and Trends 🔀

• 10 min read – The top most innovative companies in the world 2018, according to the Boston Consulting Group [via Boston Consulting Group]
• 24 min read – Agile organizations have five key elements in common: a North Star vision, a network of empowered teams, rapid learning cycles, a dynamic people model and next-generation enabling technology [via McKinsey Insights]
• 5 min read – Spotify’s uses an “Inclusion Index” to gauge how included Spotifiers feel [via Spotify HR blog]

Cryptocurrencies and Finance 📈

• 5 min read – Coinbase launches a new service for merchants, allowing them to integrate crypto payments similarly to Paypal
• 5 min read – VISA and Mastercard make it harder to buy cryptocurrencies by adding an additional 5% fee [via TechCrunch]
• 5 min read – Forbes list of cryptocurrency’s richest investors [via Forbes]

Interesting Reads 🤓

• 8 min read – Learning to unlearn — identifying the things that you can’t nurture, and letting them go — can be as important as learning new ones [via FastCompany]

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