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GV's Guide to UX Research for Startups

Since 2010, we've helped hundreds of GV startups use UX research to answer critical business questions and to build more successful products.

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Everyone is a designer. Get over it

Recently, Jared Spool caught my attention with an article about how Netflix's performance engineers are actually designers. It's a provocative idea, but it makes sense. His argument is that everyone in your organization (including performance engineers) designs the product, not just the people with "design" in their job titles.

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The Three-Hour Brand Sprint

arning: This is a post about branding, but I'm no brand expert. For most of my career, any mention of the word brand made me uncomfortable. I figured it was a fine line between "brand exercise" and "total waste of time." I was forced to confront my branding heebie-jeebies five years ago, when I joined Google Ventures.

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A designer's guide to Parkinson's Law of Triviality

What to do when your team is focused on unimportant details Last week, I met with two companies that are building incredibly complex, ambitious medical products. One of the companies is trying to fundamentally improve cancer outcomes in a way that could save millions of lives.

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Google Venture Year in Review