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The Nintendo Switch Did Everything Right, Except for Just One Thing…

The Product Coalition

I grew up on all its handhelds and home consoles, starting with the original DS back in 2006. About Me My name is Kasey, AKA J.X. Fu (pen name). The Nintendo Switch is one of the many primary mainstream consoles which contribute to these rising numbers; for good reason. I’m a massive Switch fan.

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3 vanished U.S. brands whose businesses live on in the Japanese market

freshtrax

However, the Lawson name lives on in Japan! Originally started by a group of music lovers who got together to buy and sell their favorite records, the store was named Tower Records and opened in a movie theater building that was converted into a store. A name that was suspiciously close to the name of the actual brand, “Tower Records.”

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3 vanished U.S. brands whose businesses live on in the Japanese market

freshtrax

However, the Lawson name lives on in Japan! Originally started by a group of music lovers who got together to buy and sell their favorite records, the store was named Tower Records and opened in a movie theater building that was converted into a store. A name that was suspiciously close to the name of the actual brand, “Tower Records.”

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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

Twitter: X The social network was founded in 2006. Suddenly, there is no connection between the name, the logo, and the message. Since then, it has become extremely popular among celebrities, artists, singers, and just common folk who want to express their opinions in a short manner.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

When I joined a company in 2006 to run product management (as a CMO), the VP of sales would meet with the product managers every Monday morning to make new feature requests per what sales had sold the week before. I see product management reduced to a gopher for development and a clean-up function. It’s basically powerless.

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Product Management is on the up-and-up – why now?

BrainMates

Product Managers are in short supply – named as one of just five key roles in the Startup Talent Gap report released in July 2018 by start-up peak body StartupAUS in collaboration with Microsoft, the University of Technology Sydney and Google – alongside coders, startup-focused sales roles, user experience designers, and data scientists.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

He then joined Google in 2004, and 11 years later found himself named CEO as part of the Alphabet reorganization of the firm. So when Larry Page decided to break up Google into a family of companies under the Alphabet umbrella, careful Google watchers weren’t surprised when Pichai was named CEO of the new Google.