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Agile Movers & Shakers (6)

The Product Coalition

“ Christiaan : A friend of mine started a software company. He sold solutions, I developed them. It resonated strongly with my beliefs about personal autonomy and all my prior training as a psychologist.” “ Barry : Failed software development projects. I was responsible for managing software development projects.

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

ProductPlan

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. While some nuggets of wisdom might continue to pop up, it’s generally a game of diminishing feedback returns.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. Instead we want to assess and test dozens of ideas quickly and cheaply, and only invest in those that move us in the right direction. Sign up here for a chance to get a free copy and submit feedback.

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What to do When Investors Say No to Your Product Idea

ProductPlan

You’re a product manager working for a software startup, and you’ve come up with an idea for a new app. The investors are so enthusiastic about the app’s potential that they greenlight all of the funding your team will need to develop it. Air America, an outlet for liberal talk radio, launched in 2004.

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15 Fun Facts About btrax

freshtrax

We have grown so much since our humble beginning in 2004, from providing design services for small businesses to now helping companies bridge the gap between Japan and America through design. From ideation to creation to user testing, the group brought ideas to life and made finding solutions more clear. ?Related btrax is 15!

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TEI 323: Product management insights, stories, and secrets from inside Amazon – with Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

Product Innovation Educators

Amazon operates at a scale that often can’t be supported by any commercial solutions, so they have to create solutions themselves. At these meetings, a leader of the customer service group brought forward a customer problem that Amazon didn’t have a good solution for. Frugality—constraints breed innovation.

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From 2 hours to 2 minutes: How Hostinger accelerated customer support with Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Having the right tools to support customers is vital if your customer base is growing at a fast clip. Launched in 2004, the web hosting provider serves over 29 million users in 178 countries. Prior to Intercom, Hostinger tested a number of different support tools. Try 1 new customer every 5 seconds. The challenge.