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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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How Have Companies Thrived During The Economic Downturns?

The Product Cafe

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. 🫡 Mailchimp Launched in the middle of the dot-com crash in 2001 - with the simple objective to help their customers i.e. small businesses. Hello, all you product-loving folks!

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How To Build Your Audience Well Before Launching Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

Most entrepreneurs assume that the marketing and audience building phase of their startup begins post product launch. Yet I’ve seen some startups successfully build their audience well before they reach this point. It launched its now famous Signal vs. Noise blog in 2001 to share their ideas about design, business, and the web.

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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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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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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. I’ve been a proponent of GIST ever since I started using it at Google, and over the years have helped numerous companies, from startups to corporations, implement it. No better time than right now.

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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.