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This is how AWS was born.out of a crisis

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Amazon’s CTO was Rick Dalzell – ex-Walmart, hard-charging operator. 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. Amzn could have negotiated a better deal with Sun, but Jeff chose a more radical approach.

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Open innovation 2.0–and other innovation insights for product managers May 20, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

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Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . Chesbrough wrote his Open Innovation book in 2003. 6 steps to being customer-centric and developing products customers want. 5) A/B test product features. (6)

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Behind Every Great Product by Marty Cagan

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In the opening keynote at this year’s London #mtpcon, Silicon Valley Product Group’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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Behind Every Great Product

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When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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Couple of really good examples of that are product management and product marketing because they are a multiplier; they collaborate across a team so if you don’t have a really high bar there you’re going to have really bad product and you’re going to have really bad messaging for your sales and marketing team.