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Paying It Forward

Mironov Consulting

 I don’t know how long it will last, or how deep it will go, but over the last few weeks many companies announced staff cuts or closed startups. I remember major tech downturns in 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2008.  Especially  Especially 2001.  I We’re going through another tech pullback.  I

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Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy

Intercom, Inc.

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. As I mentioned, I was a PM at a fast-growing San Francisco startup and I grew to be VP product, so I’d seen the pain points and the struggles of being an individual PM.

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The Collision of Product Management and Product Ownership

The Product Coalition

Numerous conferences later, talking with peers and reading many blogs like this only left with more questions than answers. Jeff Sutherland The Scrum movement was accelerated after 2001 when a group of seventeen software though-leaders met up at a ski lodge in Utah and created the agile manifesto. including myself?—?went

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Part of my journey was 6 startups. My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. ” Startups as well as big companies tend to focus on individual customers, individual accounts.

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Forget Methodologies, Focus on Customers

Modus Create

On the other hand, capitalizing on a company’s current position to appease shareholders or investors, without innovating, improving, or optimizing, might be profitable in the short term, but in the long run you will likely lose market share. Lean Startup. You can read more in our Modus blog, Scaled Agile – Why?

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Idea Validation?—?Much More Than Just A/B Experiments

The Product Coalition

It’s a core principle of Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and other modern product development methods, and the default mode of operation for many successful tech companies today. The MVP Principle The term Minimum Viable Product was first used by Frank Robinson in 2001 to describe the minimal product that can be sold to customers.

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GV’s Kate Aronowitz and Vanessa Cho on leading through design

Intercom, Inc.

where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way. I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. I did a little bit of consulting along the way and was also at startup called Wealthfront for a while. Two decades later, these two women are blazing trails in design leadership. Scaling design.