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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Flash Forward 2005, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. Reach out to me at info@bainpublic.com.

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

Mixpanel

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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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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Why the best way to drive viral growth to increase retention and engagement

Andrew Chen

However, having implemented many of the ideas in my own startup products (back in the day) and then in viral referral programs at Uber, I have several new interpretations of these classic ideas that I want to share. Many of these products would also quickly collapse. It’s actually retention, and strong product/market fit.

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

Business of Software Conference

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. In 2007, we launched Highrise; we launched a new product every year for like four or five years, basically.

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

The Product Coalition

How to Make Fewer Errors During Your Trial-And-Error Journey Reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error, but it takes so much more to succeed. Image by Andrina Smylie from Pixabay In 2005 I felt an urge to go back to school. I decided to move into product management, and the rest is history.

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Top Tips for Product Leaders from the Chief Product Officer of Box: Jeetu Patel

Aptrinsic

How to Build and Manage Successful Product Team During Aptrinsic ’s recent Mastering Product Adoption and Growth event, industry-renowned product leaders shared their insights into driving product growth. Chief Product Officer for Box?—?on on how to run an effective product organization. Have we lost it?