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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

To assist with the practicalities of product management, I propose segmenting user needs in a way that differentiates between the expressed needs that people volunteer, the unexpressed needs they do not communicate, and the unrecognised and potential needs they cannot accurately describe themselves.

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K.I.S.S??—?my ass!

The Product Coalition

2005 almost prehistoric… So let’s talk something a bit more recent targeting a younger population?—?Fortnite. And the investment / learning process that we’ve painfully gone through is what differentiates us from those who have yet to ‘join the elite club’. Yoav is also the founder and head-master of the Startup CEO Course.

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K.I.S.S??—?my ass!

The Product Coalition

2005 almost prehistoric… So let’s talk something a bit more recent targeting a younger population?—?Fortnite. And the investment / learning process that we’ve painfully gone through is what differentiates us from those who have yet to ‘join the elite club’. But Facebook is ancient some will say. productMBA K.I.S.S??—?my

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

Part of my journey was 6 startups. My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. I observe, certainly in startups but also in really big companies and everything in between, most of the folks are incented to think about the current quarter. Not a differentiator.

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Rapid Prototyping for Product Managers

The Product Guy

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.