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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

While it’s crucial to value customer feedback, startups should avoid being held hostage by the preferences of their early user base if it deviates from the broader market. It’s also important to recognize the distinction between making small mistakes in execution and when the core concept itself is flawed.

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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan. To create a front of the funnel website that markets to our target users and converts them.” YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. When I send my mentees to work with sales on understanding the customers and the market better , the discussion often gets very quickly into features that are missing in the product.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Tom Coates, Co-Founder of Thington.

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Time To Say Goodbye – 4 Lessons The BoS Community Taught Me

Business of Software Conference

Hey I’m Paddy, and for the last 3½ years I’ve been heading up all things Marketing at Business of Software. I joined Business of Software in September 2017 as a fresh-faced and inexperienced marketer. On my 5th day in the job we flew to Boston to run BoS USA 2017. 4 Lessons The BoS Community Taught Me.

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Nutritionally Balanced Food: Japanese Food Startup, BASE FOOD, Expands to the U.S. with Innovative Product Reinventing Staple Foods

freshtrax

BASE FOOD officially launched in April of 2016 in Japan and became Amazon Japan’s top seller of the year in the food category for 2017. million USD) to boost its growth in a global market. market, localization strategy between Japan and the U.S., market, localization strategy between Japan and the U.S.,

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Return of the Speakers // #BoS2018

Business of Software Conference

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. 5x Founder, 2x CEO, and former CPO at Hubspot, David Cancel is now the Founder and CEO of Drift, the world’s leading Conversational Marketing Platform. 1 // Mikey Trafton. 3 // Bob Moesta. 4 // David Cancel.