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Amplitude

By Amplitude

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UsesCustomer-led growth

“customers were using amplitude to analyze experiments use segments for outreach and send data to other destinations”

Speaker: John Cutler▶ Watch at ~2:30approx.

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Marketing6 steps

The Six-Milestone Customer Journey Map

Struggle, evaluation, growth — six value milestones that replace the funnel as your growth model.

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Strategy4 steps

The Strategy Tree (Deploying Strategy Through the Missing Middle)

Connect team-level work to business outcomes through three linked layers so no one asks why they're building something.

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Communication5 steps

The Teach-Me-Something-In-One-Minute Interview

A 60-second timed teaching exercise scored on completeness, complexity, and clarity

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Strategy6 steps

The Team-Based Activation Ladder (Setup → Aha → Habit)

Find the habit moment that predicts retention, then work backwards to the aha and setup moments.

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Leadership3 steps

The Tempo Framework

Align every team on what shipping cadence 'good' looks like, then close the gap

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Innovation3 steps

The Three B's of Behavior Change

Change user behavior by picking a specific Behavior, removing Barriers, and adding immediate Benefits.

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Sales3 steps

The Three Lead-Attribution Channels (PQA / PQL / MQL)

Route leads by whether usage and a buyer exist, because each channel has different conversion rates and playbooks.

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Strategy5 steps

The Three Modes of Customer Understanding

Separate targeted Discovery, always-on Continuous Conversations, and passive Customer Listening — each needs its own machinery.

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Strategy4 steps

The Three Network Effects (and Why Social Products Must Evolve)

Classify defensibility as direct, cross-side, or data network effects — and know social products must add the latter two

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Leadership3 steps

The Three Pillars of Product Operations

Structure a product ops function around data insights, customer insights, and process to free PMs for strategic work

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Productivity3 steps

The Three Pillars of Product Operations

Scale product management with internal data & insights, customer research at scale, and standardized strategy cadences.

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Marketing3 steps

The Three Pillars of Self-Serve Monetization

Lift free-to-paid conversion by fixing awareness first, then checkout friction, then the model itself.

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Self-Mastery3 steps

The Three Reactive Postures

Identify which fear-driven posture you retreat into (complying, protecting, controlling) so you can redirect the gift beneath it.

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Innovation4 steps

The Validation Gamut (Assessment, Data, Tests, Experiments, Release)

Validate an idea's assumptions cheaply first — assessment and data before you ever build, fakes before you build for real

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Finance3 steps

The Value Metric Pricing Model

Charge on a metric that scales with value so acquisition, retention, and expansion self-correct

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Innovation4 steps

The Wizard of Oz Validation Method

Validate a feature's value and conversion rate before building anything by faking the backend manually.

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Leadership5 steps

The Written Screen Job Simulation

Send a shared doc of a dozen easy questions. Half the candidates disqualify themselves.

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Innovation4 steps

The Zone of Benefit (3x Rule)

A product must make the customer at least 3x better before they notice enough to switch and pay.

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Mindset3 steps

Thinking Gray

Defer black-or-white judgments about decisions and people until the last responsible moment.

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Marketing3 steps

Three-Ingredient Emerging Channel Evaluation Framework

Decide whether a hot new acquisition channel is worth your time using three lenses before you invest.

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Leadership4 steps

Tool-Agnostic Hiring Test

Screen martech candidates for curiosity, engineering scrappiness, and freedom from tool bias.

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Entrepreneurship6 steps

Treat Your Course Like a Product

Hypothesise the audience, interview them, iterate the ICP, and run three weeks — not one.

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Communication5 steps

Turbo Rapport and Sales Scales

Sales is a set of drills, not a birthright — practise your scales on baristas and bartenders.

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Self-Mastery4 steps

Unpack the Mindset Into Teachable Skills

Replace 'product sense' and 'high agency' with the specific competencies underneath them.

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Marketing6 steps

Value-Moment KPIs and the Win-Back Loop

Tie each milestone to a compound usage metric, then use it to catch people when they fall.

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Strategy3 steps

Vertical Unbundling Criteria

Only carve a vertical out of a horizontal marketplace if it has high value or frequency and a self-contained network

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Marketing5 steps

Virality as Customer-Augmented Marketing

Real virality is high-quality word of mouth from a great product — not synthetic referral traps bolted on top.

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Sales4 steps

Warm-Intro-via-Text Closing Play

Host a customers-only event, harvest referrals, and convert them over text — not email.

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Leadership5 steps

WeDash: Mandatory Dogfooding as a Culture Governor

Make every employee do frontline work, then advertise it in interviews to self-select hires.

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Leadership4 steps

When to Centralize a Martech Function

Use the 100-150 person threshold and b2c/b2b axis to decide when and where to own martech.

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Leadership4 steps

When to Hire a Chief Product Officer

Use portfolio complexity, revenue scale, PM headcount and trigger events — not a title chart — to know it's CPO time.

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Strategy5 steps

Where to Fish for a Unicorn: The Workflow Quadrant

Score a B2B SaaS idea on two axes — workflow breadth and frequency — to predict billion-dollar potential.

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Strategy4 steps

Which Product Ops Pillar to Start With

Choose your first product ops investment by company stage and where your biggest fire is

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Leadership4 steps

Workshop-First Advisor Hiring

Vet an advisor with a paid working session on a real problem, then re-evaluate their value every month.

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Strategy3 steps

Writing a Compelling Product Vision

A vision people can picture, that's lofty but not yet achieved, and that says what you won't do.

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Strategy4 steps

Year-Horizon Growth Portfolio

Protect growth teams from weekly-win pressure by committing to low/medium/high bets over a year-long horizon

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Productivity4 steps

Your Problem Isn't Unique

Never start from scratch; find who already solved your problem and patternize the solution.

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