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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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Introducing the Speakers for MTP Engage Manchester 2019

Mind the Product

Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups. Nicholas also plays a role in evolving tech, as an advisor to a number of promising startups. Nicholas Goubert – SoundCloud.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. The MVP in 2012 (and the world’s first fully responsive crowdfunding website).

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Why Do Most Startups Struggle to Scale?

Modus Create

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. Many startups struggle to carry the momentum of the initial growth spurt. . So, why do most startups struggle to scale? Growth is sacred for startups. In 2012, a competitor entered the market.

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Japanese Female Entrepreneurs who Thrive Against the Odds

freshtrax

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

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The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)

Lenny Rachitsky

She is a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization working to accelerate the success of women in the venture-capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem. She joined Pinterest in 2012 as their first PM and launched their first search and recommendations features. Before Benchmark, Sarah was a partner at Greylock Partners.

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