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Ways to Define Success and Measure Value for your Product Features

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Erin McHugh Saif showed us how she used analytics and customer insights to help her tackle a large-scale business problem at TIBCO Spotfire and Sooyoung Kim shared how Rue La La is using Riskiest Assumption Testing to rapidly test ideas with zero engineering effort. Come up with the smallest possible test.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

“Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted. Identify their challenges, features that spark their interest, and solutions that can be rapidly tested. Your most valuable insights will often come from discussions with your initial users and potential users.

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Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story

The Review by First Round

Here at First Round, we first came to know Dave when we invested in Upstart’s seed round back in 2012, and we’ve found him to be one of the most tenacious and focused founders we’ve ever backed. Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business.

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

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012, Jensen Huang at NVIDIA was leading a GPU firm that was doing marvellously in gaming, but he found that Intel was incorporating the GPU into the CPU and sucking value out of his entire business. You still need to do hypothesis testing, but you need a plan for distribution channels and routes to market. [25:13]

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Impact Mapping: Does it Make a Difference in Building Better Products?

Userpilot

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. It became popular thanks to the 2012 Gojko Adzic book. These are the ways to validate their ideas and assumptions, like prototyping or fake door testing.

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Study in UK? This is the starting point

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In 2012, from 200 nations, around 420000 students made UK their destination for Higher education There are more than 1 million Indians living in UK There are around 9000 restaurants serving Indian cuisines in UK People with interest in History will find UK to be the place of their dreams. United Kingdom scores points in these areas also.

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