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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

While Boz celebrates startup culture, he also acknowledges its challenges. 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. Ask your leaders or managers for help when facing difficulties.

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

The Product Coalition

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. In the evolution of a startup, the founders initially do whatever they can themselves. It is only in the second edition (released in December 2017) that he added also ‘business viable’.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Tom is the co-founder of Thington, a concierge for your smart home or office, which was recently acquired by Eero.

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

freshtrax

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. 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. How BASE FOOD is adjusting to the new market.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. We spent most of 2017 building it out. Chasing free customer acquisition.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award in 2017 , five W3 awards, People’s Choice Webby Award in 2018, and the Appy Awards Winner?—?Gold Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice It is also known for all of the awards it keeps in its glass showcase.

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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. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business. Read on to find out who is returning and to watch their previous knockout talks. 1 // Mikey Trafton. 3 // Bob Moesta.