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Cindy Alvarez
Personal blog · cindyalvarez.combusinessdesigndata
Cindy Alvarez's personal blog at cindyalvarez.com covers business, design and data. Since 2008, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Customer development - Are you asking the right questions?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on parental leave policy, drawing on the author's experience of a small company, and on testing a minimum viable product before building it. The comments discuss the topics and do not evaluate the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Customer development - Are you asking the right questions?5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-02-23
- Customer Development Interviews How-to: Finding People2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-04
- Your Best Customers Probably Aren’t The Ones You Think Are2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-27
- Acquisition and Activation, Personified (AARRR Metrics)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-15
What Hacker News says?
I worked for a small company when my wife had our children. I was the first employee to have a child while at the job. I was lucky enough to be senior enough to negotiate the parental leave that I needed. It was unpaid. My employer did not force me to take vacation time, which was kind of them. A month or two before I left, the COO created a parental leave policy, and I was glad to see it codified. This was a compan…
Comment linking /best-practices/its-not-okay-to-not-have-a-parental-leave-policy
on “Why we offer parental leave”Submitted You Don’t Get to Define ‘Quality’ as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI think this can still be considered an intermediate MVP that can be tested. The goal of lean is to eliminate waste, so there is a risk that an MVP with working code has no demand whatsoever. One drawback to this approach is that it may give you false negatives. What if you landing page copy doesn't work or your AdWords copy is wrong? As with all lean/custdev hacks ymmv. Bottom line is you need to find customers to…
Comment linking /best-practices/customer-development-interviews-how-to-finding-people
on “A new approach to minimum viable product”Submitted Revenue, Personified as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer Development Interviews How-to: Finding People as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Must Solve the First User Experience, First as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Books To Make You A Better Product Manager as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poke Your Bruises for Better Customer Feedback as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad Copy Kills – Read It Out Loud as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Myth of the Self-Starter as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Posterous: great example of capitalizing on existing user behaviors as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ways to Not Build Stuff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer development - Are you asking the right questions? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons Why You Have No Credibility with Engineering as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want Better Feedback? Be More “Brain-Friendly” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go Ahead, Be a Flake as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Good Enough" Formula for Segmenting an Existing Market as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does a validated hypothesis look like? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It’s better, but is it ENOUGH better? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the AA of "AARRR" looks like as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Acquisition and Activation, Personified (AARRR Metrics) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix on “No”: Try not to say “no” to any of your customers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer Development Interviews How-to: What You Should Be Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Real Reason Companies Avoid Feedback as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Complications in A/B testing - Experiences at KISSinsights as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Scrappy Interaction Design Checklist (You Need This) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Phrase That Should be Banned from Product Managers’ Vocabulary as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- pw · 2010-06-14
Submitted Customer Development Interviews How-to: What You Should Be Learning as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Submitted Is Your Pricing a Dot or a Triangle? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lean 4, Fat 0: Some Arguments We Have Had at KISSmetrics over Lean Stuff as a story · 2 points
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