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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. He has a framework to help. He has a framework to help.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

The Jobs-To-Be-Done Framework: Clayton Christensen and Anthony Ulwick [10:42]. Jobs-to-be-Done Framework. By 2004, Microsoft was already announcing that they didn’t want to support it anymore, and by 2006 they ended support for it. And that is the Jobs-to-be-Done framework. The Agile Manifesto [7:06]. Design Sprints.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

You can follow and message Li on Twitter if you have thoughts about the piece. No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. It was originally published on a16z.com.