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

Product Talk

There will be some people, particularly in startups, who are going to want to see you take it a step further. 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. A Nerdy Example from My Life.

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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

The Product Coalition

Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. On that same day, I landed in the city. It always helps.

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Jason VandeBoom: Bootstrapping to a $100 Million Round

Business of Software Conference

He went against a lot of traditional advice for startups: staying in your lane; not going after big companies as your first customers; treating customer support as a cost centre…. Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign accelerates every company’s growth with a marketing automation platform designed to deliver great customer experiences.

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Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

Lenny Rachitsky

His books have sold over 1 million copies in more than 30 languages; he has taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and its Design School; and he has started and sold two startups since 2003.

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The Shape Up Method: What Product Managers Need to Know

The Product Coalition

Basecamp started off in 2003 as a tool that the internal development team built for themselves. The below diagram will help you to illustrate and understand the process - Shape Up Process Let’s have a case study here, Precise Incorporation is a new startup in the e-commerce space.

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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. To do this, we need to return to an idea that Eric Ries introduced over ten years ago in The Lean Startup. You can do it, but if you want it to be a seamless experience, you better have some tech chops. Tweet This.

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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive the Corona Crisis

The Product Coalition

Beijing’s Forbidden City, July 2003 (photo taken by me) June 24th, 2003, was the first day of life after SARS in Beijing. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. On that same day, I landed in the city.