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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

A product or feature might have been successful at the time of release, but technical capabilities improve and user expectations evolve. One of the most successful pivots was from a dating site that dramatically reduced its vast number of features based on the highest user engagement. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005.

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Paving the Cow Path and Other Stories by Simon Cross

Mind the Product

Eleven years ago Facebook found that people were changing profile pictures five, 10, even 20 times a day – they were using their profile pics to tell stories and share photos. It was clear that Facebook needed to develop a product to help users share their photos, says Cross, and a Photos team was formed. The Influencer.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

Four of those are what we call “good life learning and character building” And what I do a lot of the time is parachute into San Francisco area companies as the interim or temporary Head of Product. ” Startups as well as big companies tend to focus on individual customers, individual accounts. They want the message.

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4 Challenges Every Growing SaaS Business Will Face: Lessons from Micha? Sadowski of Brand24

Userpilot

Brand24 wasn’t the first brand monitoring tool in the market, but they were determined to stand out from the crowd with the best Product Experience. Product Experience is not only the product itself: it’s Customer Success, Service, experience with the website, time to value. Instead, they get frustrated and leave.

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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

I felt like I could see why Oprah didn’t do these all the time, I didn’t want to deal with all of criticism. When people attended the Oprah show, they were given a certain date, time, and place to appear and that was about it. And no consideration was really given for what was going on in their department at the time.

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Microsoft Kin, iPhone, and the perils of chasing hipness

UX Planet

Sure, Facebook and Instagram are still around, and they aren’t going to disappear any time soon, but they’re on a steady decline and there’s probably nothing they can do about it. In the course of a single, well-timed blitz, Google Plus could have stolen Facebook’s entire userbase leaving only the Farmville moms. It was no longer cool.

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Collection, Analysis, Action: A Beginner’s Guide to the Product Stack

Mixpanel

A product stack is simply a collection of tools that allow you to collect, analyze, and act on data that is created by users in your application. Knowing those details helps product managers improve the experience for future users. Now, let’s dive in. What is a product stack? What parts of the product are confusing for them?