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Learning from Failure: Product Manager Style

The Product Coalition

Many product people know that rushed development can kill the final release. In this case, negotiations between Atari and Universal Pictures/Steven Spielberg over the rights to the film were only completed in July 1982, leaving only 5 and a half weeks for development in the push to release the game in time for Christmas.

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Are You Using Your Creativity the Right Way?

The Product Coalition

The question did pop up in the second interview: “ If you were working at Google and had all the company’s resources, which product would you choose to work on?”. I would develop a voice interface for the computer” , I said proudly. You have to understand, it was early 2008. it probably wasn’t such a bad one.

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Net Promoter Score (NPS): The Complete Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

As more and more SaaS companies attempt to increase customer loyalty, more and more ways of measuring it are developed. Thus, NPS can inform your user onboarding and product development, and help you reduce your churn and increase retention. Now, you may be wondering – is 25 a good or bad NPS?

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. So those are developer tools for sure. Those are big amazing companies.

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Behind Every Great Product

svpg

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. DC : Drift basically helps B2B businesses connect with the customers that are interested in buying now that are on their website. ML : Describe David Cancel. DC : In 30 seconds?

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STICKY POST: All Talks From Business of Software Conferences in One Place

Business of Software Conference

Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging.