Slow and steady creates results

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Join smart, curious folks to get the Data Ops 📊 newsletter each week (it’s free!) One of the hallmarks of Product Led Growth (or “self-guided trial” if you’re old-school like me) is the ability for trialers to get their hands…

Patrick McKenzie’s excellent article “What Working at Stripe Has Been Like” has spurred my brain this week into thinking about the difference between working for a “regular” company and a startup, and the relative changes needed in perspective to enjoy…

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How do you keep up with these Slack communities that are out there? For many of us, opening Slack creates an overwhelming feeling of “FOMO” (Fear of Missing Out). When all of the channels light up with notifications, you collapse…
What is Data Operations, Anyway? Data Operations is a hidden team in your organization, connecting business and people systems and helping Sales Operations, Marketing, and Customer teams to present accurate metrics, marketing data, and customer operations to executive leaders. You…
Almost all organizations maintain reports based on their collection of 1st party data. First-party data – data collected directly from user actions – delivers feedback on what’s happening in your system based on customer and user activity. First-party data looks…

Anyone who’s spent time in spreadsheets dreads receiving that request to match a random list of things with another of list of things. Right? Except when you are used to using VLOOKUP. That tried-and-true method is very good at finding…

Have you recently read about a product and thought: “it does too much?” Yet it’s also easy to disqualify a product or service as too narrow and “not for me”. How do you split the gap and build for the…
Join smart, curious folks to get the Data Ops 📊 newsletter each week (it’s free!) If you look at an image in a popular magazine article like the one above on the phenomenon we are all calling “no-code” software development,…