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Innovate like a startup–and other innovation insights for product managers Nov 3, 2017

Product Innovation Educators

Five educational tracks and 30+ sessions. 12 lessons corporate innovators can learn from startups – aka, how to innovate like a startup. (1) Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Learn more at [link].

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Balancing Family Life with a Career in Product Management – Shelly Kalish & Karen Hershenson on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. ” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. “People are hard.” “People are hard.”

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Japanese Female Entrepreneurs who Thrive Against the Odds

freshtrax

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

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Can you be a Mom and a Product Manager? – Shelly Kalish & Karen Hershenson on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. ” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. “People are hard.” “People are hard.”

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Discover Everything – Teresa Torres on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

In 2017, Teresa Torres gave one of our favourite talks on the Mind the Product stage, introducing the concept of Opportunity Solution Trees. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Transitioning to Product from a Functional Role

Mind the Product

Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done. Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms.

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10 years of UX studio

UX Studio

However, at that time, I was busy working on my startup as a co-founder, so this feeling endured for another 1,5 years. We did research for Netflix and supported the startups of the Google incubator. My colleagues started their redesign work on Revolution Robotics, an educational robotics platform for children in the age group of 8-13.