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What is Product Design?

The Product Coalition

While no company has ever gone out of their way to build ugly products, when consumer tech really started taking off in the late-eighties/mid-nineties, what mattered most was that the technology worked. The design for the iMac as we know it today came out in 2009. Generally, a Product Manager owns more of the product vision.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. The customer experience of a service is often subjective, making traditional marketplace features like reviews, recommendations, and personalization more difficult to implement. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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Learning from Failure: Product Manager Style

The Product Coalition

Atari also elected to skip audience testing due to the time constraints, trusting instead that the popularity of the IP and a timely seasonal release would boost sales. The developer refused, sticking to his original vision. Politicians and tech giants alike revered her as the next Steve Jobs, even the next Archimedes.

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Why Aren’t We Better at XP (or Almost Anything)? “Stop Making It Harder”

Johanna Rothman

Early in the video, Kent discusses the all-too-frequent sexism and racism I also see in tech. My First Review Revealed Pay Sexism. The design reviews were about the integrity of the product and the code. A couple of jobs later, in 1982, I worked on a machine vision product. Lots of great insights. One of my big learnings?