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Coronavirus Business Impact: A Startup Disaster or a Big Opportunity to Innovate

The Product Coalition

How many startups will survive the COVID-19 economic crisis ? Startups that have started producing their products in China are at risk of experiencing considerable damages or disappear at all. Consequently, it may cause a slight decrease in investing startups and initiatives pitched by medium-sized companies.

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The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup. Since 2001 there have been several attempts to improve on the core MVP concept. Think Agile and SAFe, Since 2001 there have been seven different attempts to redefine the MVP.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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Layoffs: Has the Product Management Industry Failed Us?

The Product Coalition

When role model companies have their structures shaken by what appears to be poor management, it’s inevitable to think that they are not that different from your “under digital transformation” every-day business. link] Amazon laid-off 15% of its workforce in 2001. Layoffs: Has the Product Management Industry Failed Us?

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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup.

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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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The 21 best agile product management resources

ProductBoard

In 2001, a group of software developers set off a revolution in the world of tech when they outlined a new way of managing product development—agile. At the time, older models of product management such as waterfall were becoming obsolete. Even startups regularly beat out large established companies to build industry-leading.

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