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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

The game “Glitch” was the first product launched in 2011. A product should be cut when a product’s purpose is met by a similar product of higher growth potential. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. A great example is Tiny Spec, a former gaming company.

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Product Talk Is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Juhlin

Product Talk

And that’s how I got into product development—I was beta testing, writing documentation, spec’ing out new features, and learning a lot about technology and hardware, networking, software, processing, clients, all sorts of things. This was around 2005. That’s how I got connected with the folks at Orion Labs.

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Lessons from launching SPEEDRUN, the Games x Tech startup accelerator

Andrew Chen

I’ve often remarked that it feels a bit like 2005 where there aren’t hundreds of angel investors and dozens of seed investors to get these new companies off the ground. It’s a good bit of capital for a new team — $500k — and you don’t need a product launched or even built.

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Why Gender Diversity Leads to Better Products

ProductPlan

Unfortunately, in 2005, women only earned about one in five CS degrees in the US, which continues today. So they came up with the solution to filter down to technical PMs, [with] the requirement that they have a degree in computer science—or a related field like electrical engineering. 9x more likely to innovate.

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Top 7 UX Research Agency in 2023

UX Studio: Product Management

Guidea is a UX firm helping businesses to carry out projects from their idea phase until the final product launch. Founded in 2005 by Theresa Neil, Guidea is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) – a national certification that verifies that a company is at least 51% woman/women-owned and operated. 4 – Guidea.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

The focus of the Customer Creation process is on the marketing strategy : the choice of the target market, positioning , product launch , and demand generation. Finally, it helps teams to achieve the product-market fit faster. It considerably delays the product launch.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

The launch of Hey, Basecamp’s new email service, has become one of the most talked about product launches of 2020- not least because of the very public fight with the Apple store. In this talk, recorded online at BoS Conf Online USA, Jason talks about the conception, design and launch of Hey email.