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I Was a Product Manager Before It Was Cool

ProductCraft

2004 feels like a century ago. But 2004 was the year that a mentor took. Think about it. We didn’t have Airbnb and Uber. It would be three more years before the first iPhone would make its appearance, two years before the launch of AWS, and almost a full decade before the emergence of Slack. The post I Was a Product Manager Before It Was Cool appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo. Perspectives Agile B2B PM Role

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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Background Story : Readers familiar with the history of Scrum—sometimes lovingly referred to as Scrumtorians—will undoubtedly know that it has contained sprint goals at least since 2002 and a (product) vision since 2004 , even though the latter is not mentioned in the Scrum Guide.

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Using One-to-One Messenger Bots for Lead Generation

AB Tasty

Launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook quickly took the world by storm, bringing friends and families together from around. Read more. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Using One-to-One Messenger Bots for Lead Generation. Conversion Optimization User Experience

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The Power of Amazon's Written Narratives

Sachin Rekhi

But by 2004, Jeff Bezos had become increasingly frustrated with the lack of productivity he felt from the exec meetings he held with product teams. In 2004, Bezos and team came across an essay by Edward Tufte , a Yale professor who is an authority on the visualization of information.

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Nulab makes IPO listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

Nulab

Founded in 2004 in Japan, Nulab creates productivity software used by over 4 million people in over 190 countries. Nulab Inc., an international collaboration software company headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan, has debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market.

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Product Goals in Scrum

Roman Pichler

Background Story : Readers familiar with the history of Scrum—sometimes lovingly referred to as Scrumtorians—will undoubtedly know that it has contained sprint goals at least since 2002 and a (product) vision since 2004 , even though the latter is not mentioned in the Scrum Guide.

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Saying Goodbye

The Product Bistro

Sales training in 2004 in Europe. It has become almost a religion to me, and I think that I have done some memorable runs: Paris -Running to the Eiffel Tower, through the Arc de Triomphe and back to our hotel (2004 sales training.).

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Top Product Design Companies to Work With in 2021

StudioTeam

The company was founded by three enthusiasts who met at Howard Dean’s Presidential campaign in 2004. Ustvo started as a small company founded by 2 best friends in the UK in 2004.

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Amazon’s 6-page memos; How does it work?

NextBigWhat

The practice began in 2004 when Jeff Bezos noticed nothing was being decided after 60-minute long meetings with his inner circle (AKA S-Team). The practice began in 2004 when Jeff Bezos noticed nothing was being decided after 60-minute long meetings with his inner circle (AKA S-Team).

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A Microsoft Bigot’s Guide To Windows 10

Modus Create

I’m quite impressed with what I’m seeing as of Windows 10 version 2004. Windows 10 Version 2004 Better than Expected! Even though build 2004 was available, it never got installed on my machine until many days later. Then 2004 got installed, and everything got much better.

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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

2004?) A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” ” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. It looked just like the serial lifecycle in the image on the left.

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Scaling the Product Owner Role

Roman Pichler

A common technique to do this is unbundling a feature and releasing it as a separate product—like Facebook did with the Messenger app in 2004. Scaling and the Product Life Cycle. To understand if and when the product owner role should be scaled, I find it helpful to consider the product’s life cycle stage. As long as a product is young and hasn’t reached product-market fit—or is close to achieving it—I recommend having a single person in charge of the product.

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How to Evaluate and Create Great Product Management Teams

280 Group

2004).?Psychological Join us for our webinar on July 26th, Becoming Expert: Are you the Product Leader your team needs? where we’ll tackle what it takes to create great teams in more detail. When I think of product or market-oriented teams, I think about meetings. In fact, Product Managers are more likely to have meetings with folks outside of product management as inside it. As Product Managers, here are examples of meetings where we all wander in to address a topic.

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Here’s how Labnol founder generates $10M/year in revenue with 0 employees

NextBigWhat

2/ In 2004, Amit quit his tech job and started blogging to promote his skills. There is a founder who is doing $10M/year in revenue with 0 employees. Business: Google add-ons. Traffic: 5M visits/month. Installs: 40M. Here’s the breakdown of his business: 1/ The founder @labnol: • First professional blogger in India. Builds add-ons for Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc. Only full-time employee. Little competition as super-niche. Customers include LinkedIn, Disney, and the US Embassy.

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Web3 versus Web 3.0: The Basic Concepts and Differences

The Product Coalition

the next generation of web technology, all that changed in 2004. For the past few weeks, I have been researching the Web3 phenomenon. I noticed that there seems to be a lot of confusion over the differences between Web3 (the decentralized and blockchain-based Web) and Web 3.0,

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The Best Custom Software Development Companies in Poland

The Product Coalition

Since 2004, the company has delivered services for startups and already world-famous brands. The Most Trusted Custom Software Development Companies in Poland Are you looking for a reliable software development partner for your business?

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Checking in on Shopify Plus’ 11,000 checkouts per minute

Intercom, Inc.

In the first decade after its founding in 2004, Shopify amassed 120,000 customers and catapulted into the top 10 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list.

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Purple Squirrels and Your Product Team

Under 10 Consulting

Facebook was founded in 2004; Twitter in 2006—so it’s unlikely there are many people who meet the “15 year” requirement. Many product management job postings are impossible to fill. The idea is to find someone with many years of experience in product management… with a similar product… built on similar technology… in a similar domain… serving a similar market. They’re looking for a unicorn. Recruiters use another term for this: The Purple Squirrel.

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How To Build Your Audience Well Before Launching Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

Only in 2004 did they eventually launch Basecamp , their flagship project management app to a welcome audience of blog readers, including designers, software enthusiasts, small businesses, and more. Rand Fishkin launched SEOmoz.org in 2004 to share his thoughts as he learned about SEO. Most entrepreneurs assume that the marketing and audience building phase of their startup begins post product launch.

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Putting $125M to work for you, our customers

Intercom, Inc.

I studied artificial intelligence in college in 2004. We just raised $125M in a round led by Mary Meeker at Kleiner Perkins. Here’s what we’re going to do with it. 2018 is shaping up to be a massive year for the Intercom platform. Historically, we’ve spent proportionately way more on research and development than other software companies we track, and that won’t stop any time soon. This funding will go straight into building great new software at a pace you’ve yet to see from us.

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Sydney, 1 March 2018 Meetup: Building & Scaling Product Teams

Mironov Consulting

About Brainmates : Founded in 2004, Brainmates provides professional Product Management and Marketing training and consulting throughout Australia. Topic: Building & Scaling Product Teams. How Do We Make Them Work? Where: Sydney , AU (location TBD). When: Thursday, 1 March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Registration page. Hosted by Product Talks Sydney and Brainmates. Building and scaling a product team is a challenge that every successful product company faces.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Toronto 2004, Canada Flash Forward 2004, San Francisco, U.S. I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey.

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[Breaking News] Verint Systems Acquires Telligent: Customer Community Core to Customer Engagement Strategy

TSIA

When I first began publishing research on customer communities as a self-service channel in 2004, few companies had a community, and most were afraid of the “free-for-all” nature of discussion forums, fearful of what customers might say.

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TEI 225: Create a movement for a product – with Greg Satell

Product Innovation Educators

In 2004, I found myself running a news organization in Kiev, Ukraine, during the Orange Revolution. In 2004, I found myself running a news organization in Kiev, Ukraine, during the Orange Revolution. The power of small groups, loosely connected, with a common purpose to propel products. I’ve been looking forward to this discussion with Greg Satell since hearing he was working on a new book, titled Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change.

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Why We Fail: What I Learned From 5 Years with Friends, Netflix’s Social Strategy

Mind the Product

Netflix’s Friends (Born 2004, died 2010). Netflix launched Friends in 2004, the year that Facebook grew from one million to six million members. I write a lot about product strategy, and use Netflix as an example so that others can learn from the company’s success and failure. I often highlight that half of Netflix’s high-level product strategies fail in order to help product leaders to understand how hard it is to launch and grow startups.

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10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain

The Product Coalition

Blue Ocean Strategy Published in 2004, the ideas of professors W.

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Top 9 Web Design Agency in the UK in 2022

UX Studio

Andrew Cox set up Reactive Graphics, a UK website design company, in 2004. Did you know ??81% 81% of the users think less of a brand if its website doesn’t make a good first impression? Your website is the first visual representation visitors see.

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AI, Autonomy, and the Build Trap – Announcing our first three speakers for #mtpcon SF

Mind the Product

Nate started his first company in 2004 where he revolutionized medical evacuation with Paraslyde, later acquired by Stryker Medical. Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before.

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Sydney, 1 March 2018 Workshop: Managing Stakeholders and Priorities

Mironov Consulting

” About Brainmates : Founded in 2004, Brainmates provides professional Product Management and Marketing training and consulting throughout Australia. Managing Stakeholders and Priorities: A One Day Workshop for Product Managers. Cohosted by Brainmates and Rich Mironov. Where: Brainmates, Level 6 / 100 Clarence St, Sydney, Australia. When: 1 March 2018, 8:45am – 5:00 pm. Cost: $995 AUD, register here.

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DAU/MAU is an important metric, but here’s where it fails

Andrew Chen

I found this from a Facebook 2004 media kit showing crazy high numbers even with a small base of 70k users: Assessing product/market fit with DAU/MAU. How DAU/MAU got popular. DAU/MAU has been a popular metric because of Facebook, which popularized the metric. As a result, as they began to talk about it, other consumer apps came to often be judged by the same KPIs. I first encountered DAU/MAU as a ratio during the Facebook Platform days, when it was used to evaluate apps on their platform.

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Bootstrapping To 10 Million – The Story Of Kovai.co

Userpilot

For instance, since 2004, Saravana had been writing about the Microsoft BizTalk technology on his blog. A bootstrapped company led by a technical founder with no business background isn’t the typical description of a successful 8+ figure Saas business.

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Recommender Systems, a Popular Media Introduction

The Product Coalition

Untitled, 2020 (by me) In 2004, Chris Anderson wrote “ The Long Tail ” , an article that motivates the need for recommender systems. A Collection of News Articles by Popular Media that Explain Recommender Systems in a Way Everyone Can Understand.

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How Would You Improve Instagram as a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

As stated on their website, “Originally founded in 2004 as Facebook, Meta’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together” This goes hand in hand with the mission of Instagram stories.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

2004: The video game industry’s profits officially overtook those of the movie industry ?? At the close of 2020, when we’re on the brink of entering a new decade, we thought it’d be a good time for a little history lesson.

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Birst Smart Analytics: Using AI to Operationalize BI

Birst BI

When creating Birst in 2004, the idea was to get insight out to as many people in an organization as you can, so that even non-analyst people are empowered to use data to make decisions. How do you deliver more insights out to more people? Operationalizing BI and analytics – that is, putting the power of data in the hands of everyone across the enterprise, not just analysts and data scientists – has always been the mantra for Birst co-founder Brad Peters.

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Review of Vimeo OTT: The Best Alternatives & Competitors in 2021

The Product Coalition

The video-on-demand platform, since its inception in 2004, has catered to many in the creative market. Vimeo OTT Review & Alternatives Have you been generating video content for a long time? If yes, you’ve definitely heard of Vimeo at some point.

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The Importance of Listening to Your Customers by David Cancel

Mind the Product

In 2003 Lego lost $300 million – even though Lego has the highest profit margin of any toy brand – and predicted a loss of $400 million in 2004. In 2004 Lego’s new CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp stated that customers would have a say in all new Lego designs going forward.

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The Evolution of Product-Led Growth

ProductPlan

In 2004 I helped launch GoToMeeting , one of the earliest web-based products with a SaaS model. The evolution of product-led growth may seem to be a recent trend at software companies, but the underlying concepts have been in full force for years. .

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When is Your Product Ready to Remove the “Beta” Tag?

ProductPlan

Gmail launched in 2004, yet Google didn’t remove its beta tag until 2009. Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product managers leverage beta testing. It’s such an incredibly important and useful tool in the product development process. Internal tests can’t replicate what happens in the real world. A well-run beta program will net a slew of bug reports, suggestions, and additional requests from beta testers.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

He then joined Google in 2004, and 11 years later found himself named CEO as part of the Alphabet reorganization of the firm. It’s been nearly five years since Sundar Pichai took the reins as CEO of Google. How did this relatively unknown product manager in his early 40s rocket through the ranks to take control of one of the largest and most powerful tech companies of all time?