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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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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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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

It was developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. In the Customer Discovery phase, the team identifies problems, comes up with solutions, tests them, and assesses their potential to generate revenue. The method gained a lot of recognition after the publication of The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. So as I mentioned the market was growing and a lot of that was because of expectations around the gaming act to 2005. And it seemed an absolute no brainer.

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How to Make Fewer Errors in Your Trial-And-Error Journey

The Product Coalition

Image by Andrina Smylie from Pixabay In 2005 I felt an urge to go back to school. I learned to think and speak in a new language that included things like market forces, differentiation, competitive advantage, barriers to entry, segmentation, and focus. On the other hand, there is the tech world, and lean startup, and agile.

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

Andrew Chen

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. but may not directly sound like podcasting.