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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). 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. Netflix launched Friends in 2004, the year that Facebook grew from one million to six million members. Small wins cloud judgment.

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10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain

The Product Coalition

Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash Best 10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain Books, articles, and strategy gurus As you climb the career ladder, you realize you need to allocate more time to strategic work and less to your well-known tactical tasks. but we had no previous training on strategy.

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Introducing the Speakers for MTP Engage Manchester 2019

Mind the Product

Formed in 2004, THG (The Hut Group) has grown from a start-up business to a global digital commerce group, fast becoming one of the world’s leading beauty and well-being online retail organisations. This puts him in a unique position to bridge the gap between corporations and startups, fostering open innovation.

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority. Chrome now has 59.3%

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Figure 1: The GO Product Roadmap Figure 1 shows a specific goal-oriented roadmap template I developed, the GO Product Roadmap. The most important one is the goal , and it’s positioned in the middle of the template on the third row. It describes the specific benefit or outcome the product should achieve. It depends.

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K.I.S.S??—?my ass!

The Product Coalition

Not the monstrous product you are connected to on all of your devices. TheFacebook.com of 2004/5 that didn’t yet include the ‘like’ button or even the feed! That Facebook was NOT a simple nor easy product to understand?—?try 4 time CEO, numerous product lead positions, lecturer, writer and mentor.

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Conducting User Research in Product Management

The Product Guy

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation. In 2004, Adrienne Tan co-founded Brainmates with Nick Coster. Felix Sargent Product Manager, Bloomberg.