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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. 72 percent of innovative software projects are not successful. Chaos Report 2015. Reduce the Costs of Failure. Reachability.

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Women In Product Management You Should Be Following

Mixpanel

In fact, from 2015 to 2018, gender representation had only increased by 2 percent. With that experience, she is now investing in startups as a managing partner at Mighty Capital; has founded Products That Count, the most influential global network of product managers in the world; and is a board member at Opera, the browser software company.

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Small Cosmetic Brand Product Managers Are Changing The Business

The Accidental Product Manager

They focus on a new product development definition that includes organic ingredients, personalized service and customization of their products, such as serum meant for a specific type of skin. At stake is a share of the global cosmetics-products market, which is expected to reach US$805.61 billion in 2017.

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

Mind the Product

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. 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.

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My Two Cents: A Robinhood Growth Analysis

The Product Coalition

How a financial services startup acquired 4MM+ users in 3 years. Product / Market Fit “Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.”?—?Marc Marc Andreessen Good Market ? Photo from April 2017 Satisfactory Product ? Nov 1, 2017 ? —?Robinhood

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How do you Build a Winning Product Team?

Mind the Product

In fact, studies such as the 2015 McKinsey report – Diversity Matters , have shown that working on a team with people who are different from you can challenge your thinking in such a way that it can actually help to sharpen up its performance.

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Why the Product Manager Should Also Play Dumb

Bain Public

According to Alpha’s 2020 Product Management Insights Report , product management has entered the c-suite. As product management influences more high-level decisions and business strategies, partner alignment/collaboration becomes key. The what-and-how interview technique involves others in the solution-finding process.