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

Userpilot

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

The concepts the methodology describes, from hypothesis testing, to MVPs, to pivots, have become common vernacular in startup circles. 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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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. 2012 – the Inception. This is what we did. This is what we did.

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What's Wrong in Texas?

The Product Coalition

The Case for User-Centered Design in Product Management Over 75% of data involved with Texas’s pregnancy death statistics is potentially flawed because of poor product design. Putting two opposite selections in the same font and color directly atop one another was a bad idea. What’s Wrong in Texas?

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What is Product Design?

The Product Coalition

Instinctively, we all know what bad design looks like. Which mean your customers know what bad design looks like. Here we’ll go over the history of Product Design, the fundamental elements of good UX, and a who’s who of the design team. The team who made your email inbox interface? A product designer. A product designer.

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Negative User Feedback? Handle it like Bill Gates!

Userpilot

You’d probably pass the Turing Test! A spate of bad reviews can be a serious obstacle to growth, retention and customer acquisition. You should care about negative feedback, because your customers – actual and potential – care about it: 89% of people look for new suppliers after just one bad experience ( Oracle ).

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Free Your Product Roadmap and Ditch the Timeline

Mind the Product

I tried a couple of searches while I was testing, including one of my favourites: search for “product roadmap” under the Images tab (whether in Google or Ecosia), and you’ll get a bunch of timelines. This could be accruing tech debt, losing good developers, getting stuck building unvalidated features, and not building the right things.

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