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Strategy Blocks: An operator’s guide to product strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

At Headspace back in 2016, we had established our product roadmap and success metrics and our mission and vision, but teams were still confused about why we were working on the projects we chose. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews. Let’s dive into detailed guidance for each step.

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How Hiyacar is building a community with Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Founded in 2016, Hiyacar’s goal has always been to connect drivers with trusted local car owners. Their Quickstart keyless technology means that workers can download a virtual key and start driving without needing to meet car owners. Recent TrustPilot review. No one at Hiyacar HQ joined because they love car hire.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

In the past few years, we’ve seen the “ great flattening ” of tech: rising expectations of fewer ICs to own larger swaths of the product and manage multiple teams while staying hands-on. Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself.

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Top 10 Japanese Tech Companies

freshtrax

According to an article by Tech :: Note , the Japanese tech industry has grown as a whole with continual increases in the total revenue of the industry, from 14,380 billion yen (approx. Top 10 Japanese tech companies by capital value (November 2018). Top 10 Japanese tech companies by sales (2015-2016). SoftBank. ?1,065.5

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Should product managers be technical? Some stress technical skills and even engineering or computer science degrees. For some organizations, technical chops are most important for product managers, but this is not the norm. Read just how technical (or not) you need to be… https://under10consulting.com/articles/technical/.

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Slack: A Product Led Growth Strategy Case

The Product Coalition

Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. In other words, technology is the backbone of innovation. Microsoft launched Team in 2016 and took over many customers of Slack, and currently has almost twice as many daily active users as Slack. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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Book Review – Exponential – Azeem Azhar

Business of Software Conference

Book Review – Exponential – Azeem Azhar. If you saw his talk at BoS Europe in 2016 on whether we should be worried about AI and Machine Learning , you will be as excited as I am and know he is a phenomenal thinker and speaker. It is a must read for anyone in tech. Technology is developing at an exponential rate.