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Seven Things you can Learn From WeChat Product Development

Mind the Product

App developers and designers may look at other apps for inspiration on new features, but most only look to well-known apps like Facebook Messenger and Snapchat. Alibaba’s Taobao is a competitor to eBay and launched Aliwangwang, an instant communication tool for buyers and sellers to interact in 2003. Take Messenger for example.

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Ask Teresa: How Do You Get Your First Product Job Without Experience?

Product Talk

Question: As a new product manager or someone who wants to land their first product management role, which skills should you focus on developing? Back in 2003, I was playing Dungeons & Dragons and created online spell cards. Around 2003 or so, I was playing tabletop Dungeons & Dragons with friends.

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Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Product Talk

I often compare the online course platform world today to the blogging world in 2003. If you are interested in honing your skill and developing your discovery habits, I hope you’ll join us. You can do it, but if you want it to be a seamless experience, you better have some tech chops. We’ll be offering this course in June and October.

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High Performing Teams: Super Goals & Super Identity

The Product Coalition

Pinto & Pinto, Project Team Communication and Cross Functional Cooperation in New Program Development , Journal of Product Innovation Management , 1990. Sethi, Smith, & Park, Cross Functional Product Development Teams, Creativity, and the Innovativeness of New Consumer Products , Journal of Marketing Research , 2001.

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5 Skills Every Product Manager Can Learn From Elon Musk

Sachin Rekhi

Elon takes the T-shaped concept further and develops deep expertise in multiple domains. As Ashlee Vance puts it, "What Musk has developed that so many entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. A great example of this was at early SpaceX in 2003 when Elon decided to unveil the Falcon 1 to the public.

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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

Over the past few years, we have given a lot of thought to the ingredients of a successful app ecosystem, the effort involved in developing a thriving platform, the consideration required to build fruitful partnerships. Building a developer economy around Intercom. Infrastructure is usually a good place to start.

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The key customer experience metrics to gauge CX success 

Alchemer Mobile

This applies to product development, marketing strategies, and customer service enhancements. The Classics: time-tested customer experience metrics Net Promotor Score (NPS) Introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a leading growth indicator across industries.