Group chat plays an essential role in the day of many product teams. Especially for distributed teams it often builds the backbone for communication. That’s why we set out to build the best HipChat integration for product teams out there. Here is what we came up with. What is HipChat? HipChat is a simple group… continue reading
Here is a brief write-up of my notes from last week’s Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park. I tried to sum up the essential bits of information that stuck with me and hope that they will be useful for you as well. You can take a look at the incredible lineup of speakers that were at… continue reading
Quite a few people have asked us about our tech stack so I figured I should write a post as a thank you to the people behind the technology that we use to run Blossom. Clearly standing on the shoulders of giants here. Google App Engine We’ve traditionally hosted everything ourselves, no matter whether it… continue reading
Retaining your customers is essential if you want to grow your business in a sustainable way. Obviously having a great core product helps a lot with retention but remember that additionally to the core of your product there are many simple things you can do to make your product more valuable and engaging. An easy… continue reading
The common format of Stand-Up meetings always felt a bit odd to me. It can even lead to some undesired effects. In this post I’d like to share a few Stand-Up meeting hacks that we use at blossom. Stand-Up meetings are a popular way to start the day for many product development teams. Usually they… continue reading
Dieter Rams, a German industrial designer best known for his work at Braun consumer products and his influence on Apple’s hardware and software came up with 10 guidelines on how he approaches design. Good design is innovative Good design makes a product useful Good design is aesthetic Good design makes a product understandable Good design… continue reading
We’ve attended Leancamp London a few days ago and I have to say it was not only one of the most amazing unconference experiences I ever had, also the signal to noise ratio was nothing short of incredible. A Lean Melting Pot For me the main benefit was having people with very different backgrounds in… continue reading
Mike Markkula (angel investor of Apple) once wrote down three simple principles and called them ‘The Apple Marketing Philosophy’: Empathy We will truly understand their needs better than any other company. Focus In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.… continue reading
Great slidedeck of Lean UX Bootcamp hosted by 500 Startups.
Zach Holman shares with us how the workflow at GitHub looks like. These slides are from the Frozen Rails Conference 2011 in Helsinki. Build features fast. Ship them. That’s what we try to do at GitHub. Our process is the anti-process: what’s the minimum overhead we can put up with to keep our code quality… continue reading
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