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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. And every major business school now offers an innovation class that leverages the business model canvas and other lean principles for developing a new product idea. A bad plan is better than no plan."

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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. in Computer Science) in 2008. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. These roles gave me opportunities helped me gain exposure on how to develop web applications for users.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We are delighted to chat with you about your work at Crowley Carbon and your wider vision for making global companies more sustainable. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. Even the poorest of the poor.

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Holly Hester-Reilly on Product Science and Experimentation

Amplitude

They have ideas, theories, visions, but they question everything and are always open to changing their minds upon seeing new evidence. ”I Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I Why science? Good question.

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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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Removing Friction Isn't Always Good

Product Solving

Hiten Shah said it nicely on Twitter recently: Hiten Shah @hnshah Friction is the keyword in product development. Until it all came tumbling down in 2008. Go back to your product goals Assuming you have your overall product vision and goals in place, you should be using these to determine priority of removing friction.

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Who’s Speaking at Amplify 2019?

Amplitude

Dr. Johnson is also an investment scout for Sequoia Capital, where she helps develop early-stage entrepreneurs. Where a poor restaurant experience used to result in unhappy customers telling their friends and family, now review platforms like Yelp give patrons the opportunity to share feedback with anyone online. Elie Javice.