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Can Appleā€™s Product Managers Win Back The Movie Market?

The Accidental Product Manager

Apple’s share of the movie market has been falling lately Image Credit: So just in case you didn’t realize it, Apple makes a lot of money from both renting and selling movies. However, things are starting to change for the Apple product managers. What’s a product manager to do?

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This is how AWS was born.out of a crisis

NextBigWhat

Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Sun Microsystems was one of the most valuable companies in the world at that time (peak market cap >$300B). After the cost of starting a company was reduced dramatically by AWS, innovation exploded and the modern VC ecosystem was born Amzn nearly died in 2000-2003.

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Goodbye Scion ā€“ What Happened To You?

The Accidental Product Manager

The Scion brand is being retired by Toyota Image Credit: Aaron Van Dike. You would think that if you became the product manager of something as big as an automobile, you’d be set for life. However, as Toyota’s Scion product managers are discovering, sometimes this is not the case. The History Of Scion.

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What Should Product Managers Do When Their Main Product Fails?

The Accidental Product Manager

To be a product manager at Theranos in the early days must have been a great job indeed. The whole idea behind the company was to try to find a way to create a product development definition that would standardize the wide range of blood tests that are commonly performed by creating a novel new hand-held device. government.

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

Mind the Product

In the opening keynote at this yearā€™s London #mtpcon, Silicon Valley Product Groupā€™s Marty Cagan shared his latest thoughts on what makes a great product manager by looking at the people behind some great products. But no one knows Jane Manning, the product manager who was asked to get it off the ground.

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The Best NPS Tools & Software + How to Use Them to Cut Churn by Up To 30%

Userpilot

So since Reicheld published his seminal Harvard Business Review article ā€œ The One Number You Need to Grow ā€ in 2003 – NPS rapidly grew to prominence. There are many different NPS tools on the market. In particular, you must ensure it features your own branding and not that of the service provider. Youā€™re a product manager!

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Seven Things you can Learn From WeChat Product Development

Mind the Product

But there are numerous instances where Chinese companies have stolen a march on their Silicon Valley counterparts with the introduction of innovative new products. Alibabaā€™s Taobao is a competitor to eBay and launched Aliwangwang, an instant communication tool for buyers and sellers to interact in 2003. Official Accounts.