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Lessons from launching SPEEDRUN, the Games x Tech startup accelerator

Andrew Chen

We target startups at the very earliest stages of development, often teams without products or metrics. These are universal, but for our sector of Games x Tech, we noted a few concrete problems: There’s not really a startup community within Games x Tech. And also, founders are founders. Or wait for traction.

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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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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 customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems. It was developed by Steve Blank and popularized by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. Finally, it helps teams to achieve the product-market fit faster. It considerably delays the product launch.

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

Mixpanel

Don’t invest in growth until you’ve found product-market fit Bonus advice we love Closing thoughts. 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. Product Manager at Viber, Idan Dadon , when we spoke to him. In short, yes.

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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.