Suhail Doshi
12 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 12, 2018 by Suhail Doshi · said 5 times in 5 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Sep 12, 2018 negative
Sep 12, 2018 negative
Doshi: Email and text verifications lose 60% to 70% of onboarding users
“Generally email and text confirmations have an enormous drop-off. Like, I'm talking, like, you get, of the hundred percent of the people that come, like, only 30% will, like, basically go on and, like, click on those email confirmations, or 40%.”
Sep 12, 2018 negative
Doshi: Early startups should not optimize onboarding against fraud or spam
“You don't have lots of fraud problems. You don't have, you probably don't have a lot of people spamming your service. You probably don't have a lot of, like, fake actors in the system trying to sign up. So if you don't have those problems, don't optimize for t…”
Sep 12, 2018 positive
Sep 12, 2018 negative
Doshi: Thousand-person companies regularly overcomplicate metric tracking
“Even thousand-person companies get the basics wrong. In fact, you'll find that if you don't get the, even these thousand-person companies that get it wrong, they tend to overcomplicate the number of things that they should actually measure and track.”
Sep 12, 2018 positive
Sep 12, 2018
Doshi: Talking to users yields far more insight than analyzing data graphs
“So, I don't think there's any way that you can kind of skirt by talking to customers, but here's the benefit of talking to customers, even though it feel, maybe it's more tedious than looking at a graph you're going to get way more information and depth from t…”
Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 negative
Sep 12, 2018 positive
Doshi: Startups should commit to one North Star metric in six-month blocks
“Pick one North Star metric, and I think, and a North Star metric I would choose in this case is like, what is a number that you're willing to bet the company on? Right? Like, if that number goes south, you deserve to die, and if that number goes up, you will, …”
Sep 12, 2018
Doshi: B2B startups struggle to run A/B tests compared to consumer apps
“If you're in consumer the benefit of being in consumer is that you generally have you usually will have like hundreds or thousands of users such that you could actually go do an A-B test, whereas in B to B it's a lot harder to achieve that.”
Sep 12, 2018
Mixpanel operated without a forgot password feature for 18 months
“For like, I don't know, maybe like, 18 months of Mixpanel, like, we didn't even have forgot about password, because we were just so ruthlessly trying to prioritize, like, things that really, would really matter to customers. And it turned out we didn't get ver…”