Saved by sari and
Substack's Core Growth Loop — Brian Balfour
The challenge for Substack, then, is to build an aggregator that improves the discovery and consumption experience for readers, while still honoring writers and staying true to their purpose.
Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #45
This is the classic social media chicken-and-egg cold start problem. Every Silicon Valley PM has likely heard the stories about how Twitter and Facebook's critical keystone metrics were similar: get a user to follow some minimum number of accounts. Achieve that and those users turn into WAUs, or even better, DAUs. Users failing to follow enough acc... See more
Eugene Wei • And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
Each of these beta customers formed an atomic network—a stable, self-sustaining group of users who can drive a network effect. Once an atomic network was formed in one of their beta testers, Slack would continually add users, become more useful, ramp up engagement, and ultimately become the de facto method of communication within their workplaces.
... See moreAndrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Three Systems Underlying the Network Effect