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Applied Lean Startup: How to Master Simplicity and Velocity in Business

The Product Coalition

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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10 Product Insights You Should Have Read in 2016

Mind the Product

The Product Strategy Elon Musk Used to Build an Empire. Every company needs to be smart when setting their priorities but John Vars from TaskRabbit argues that startups need to be ruthless. What is Good Product Strategy? What we learned about building products people love in 2016. Top 10 Product Talks of 2016.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product Strategy = Company Strategy in this case.

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A Primer on Business Strategy From Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers

Sachin Rekhi

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. He then further refined his concepts as a business strategy professor at Stanford University.

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

This was a significant milestone for the messaging app, as it doubled its user base in just four years from 1 billion in 2016. In 2016, WhatsApp launched end-to-end encryption for all messages, ensuring that users’ conversations remained private and secure.

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The Simple Guide to Product Management

bpma ProductHub

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 In the pragmatic marketing framework and others like it, market understanding, strategy and definition drive all other activities for product development and delivery. Deploy different strategies for different audiences.

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Sleeping Giants – Nandini Jammi on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast]

Mind the Product

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, sponsored by Amplitude, learn how to apply this ethos to [.].