About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
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- Great tool for those who plan meetings across the world. Put in timezones and it will show you reasonable overlaps.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 58 minutes ago
- Terrific post from @efeng on notifications in mobile apps. It’s getting harder and harder to get permission. Once… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 6 hours ago
- Seminar tomorrow on reducing mental health stigmas. I don’t know the group, but anything we can do in this regard i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 7 hours ago
- Thoughtful analysis of both sides of @PYPL @PINS. I agree with @jonfortt. twitter.com/jonfortt/statu… 7 hours ago
- In depth look at Apple Pay. It really shows the power of Apple that they can get 15bps on every transaction from th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
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- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 5: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Funny juxtaposition of Google Offers ad on anti-Groupon story
Original story on Mail Online.
Posted in daily deals, google, groupon
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NOT first! Where the heck is Rocky’s analysis of Yelp?
I had several people comment to me this week that they would like to see more timely updates in response to breaking news on companies. For example, the Yelp S-1 was released on Thursday and I probably won’t post my … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, newspapers, yelp
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LivingSocial tries yet another model
LivingSocial announced a new product today as part of its Instant service. It will allow users in the DC area to order food online for delivery. A premium offering allows users to order food like they order room service, complete … Continue reading
Posted in daily deals, groupon, livingsocial
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What’s wrong with journalism today, part 1
One of the great innovators in online journalism, Jim Romenesko, resigned from his position at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank of sorts. Among journalists, Romenesko practically invented blogging. Some reporters who claimed to never had read a blog … Continue reading
Posted in journalism, newspapers
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Amazon automatically unsubscribing users from AmazonLocal list
Amazon is automatically unsubscribing some users from its AmazonLocal daily deals mailing list. Deal fatigue, the idea that consumers are tiring of daily deal emails, has been one of the longstanding concerns with the daily deals space. Amazon’s move is … Continue reading
Posted in daily deals, livingsocial
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Investing in Groupon is like investing in a leaky bucket
If you’d told me 5 months ago that I would spend a lot of 2011 studying accounting, talking to businesses and saying bad things about a company that everyone once loved, I never would have believed you. It all started … Continue reading
Posted in daily deals, groupon
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