The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 2, 2018

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. I love the way he promotes Product Management, but I also love the idea of his job- helping startups with their products. Take a moment and congratulate The Best Product Person of 2017: Melissa Perri. In the Now. >

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Mind the Product 2017 in Review – lessons for product managers. Mind the Product 2017 top talks. Organizations have adopted many practices, starting with reducing waste (lean), using stage-gate development, applying agile, and most recently relying on lean startup. Read the details at [link].

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UserVoice

MAY 31, 2017

If you haven’t been persuaded to get tickets for BASiS 2017 yet – or you need to convince your boss it’s worth the investment – here are 5 of our top reasons to get tickets: Because BASiS is the only purely data-driven product management event. Everyone says being data-driven is important. BASiS will cover this in detail.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The reasons why Saas startups are recently making a huge wave to become the next trillion-dollar industry. Over the past years, investment in SaaS startups has been increasing steadily. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. Key Benefits of Saas — Must know for Saas Startups 1.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And since 2017, if a better match becomes available after you book a ride, Uber will automatically swap your trip — a feature internally branded as Trip Swap. Recognizing where your marketplace startup falls on the fungibility spectrum is crucial. And as you grow, make sure to dedicate ample resources to these questions.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

12 lessons corporate innovators can learn from startups – aka, how to innovate like a startup. (1) I’ll also be leading a workshop with Sudhi Gulur from Boeing, applying the Lean Canvas as a minimum viable business case. Learn more at [link]. 1) The initial idea is the least important part. (2)

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017).

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017).

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Are you looking for the 2017 Product Conference list? Techstars Startup Week Detroit. I haven’t decided what events I’ll be attending in 2018 yet, but as soon as I do, I’ll update this post. We’ll also keep updating this list as we hear about more events. Find it here. January 4-5. Park City, UT. Las Vegas, NV.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

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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freshtrax

JULY 16, 2019

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Better yet, since 2017, if a better match becomes available after you book a ride, Uber will automatically swap your trip, a feature internally branded as Trip Swap. But I’m just a startup! I know all this can be overwhelming, and as a startup with limited resources you can’t have a team of data scientists optimizing your every match.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. In fact, the 2017 learning objectives for their Certified Scrum Product Owner Certification by Scrum Alliance states, "Teach that the role of the Product Owner is typically played by the customer, or customer representative, such as a product manager."

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Mind the Product

MAY 11, 2020

However, we do have a small but vibrant product community, mostly comprising by startup founders, UX and Agile practitioners, digital product and digital marketing team members of big conglomerates and local firms etc. What is product management? by Rebecca Watkin, Senior Product Manager at World First.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Prior to SEEK Asia, Ken was the Product Director and founding member of the London office of BCG Digital Ventures and consulted to large corporate clients in Europe on product strategy, startups, disruptive innovation and digital transformation. Rapid Experimentation for Product Managers.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 20, 2020

” 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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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

So in 2017, I released my first online course, Continuous Interviewing. To do this, we need to return to an idea that Eric Ries introduced over ten years ago in The Lean Startup. It was a powerful way of helping teams adopt new mindsets and invest in new habits. I have loved every minute of it. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. He spent 10 years at Google, where he created the Design Sprint process, and he has worked with over 100 startups including Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Uber.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 29, 2017

How the product manager role evolves from startup to mature organization. This is because the product role in a startup will be different than the role in the same organization five years later when it is more mature. Here are a couple I enjoyed. Happy New Year!

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 25, 2017

This article shares a useful example… [link]. 5 best books on product management. (1) What would you add? Details of each at [link]. An introduction to Design Thinking for product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 27, 2017

With Lean Startup ideas nearly ubiquitous among product managers, I still often see the development of new products beginning with… the product. Along the way, there are many forms of tests that can be conducted. Read about testing from a Farmstead product manager… [link]. Product management starts with positioning, not with product.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. More speakers to come!

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Innovation labs should not merely operate like startups. Further, it takes a surprisingly small number of people to create critical mass. Start by finding your innovation agents… [link]. What to avoid if you are starting an innovation lab. They need to be aligned with the organization’s strategic imperatives.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

Dribbble was bootstrapped for nearly a decade before being acquired in early 2017, when Zack joined, and it was already profitable too. I have a long history of working in miscellaneous startups, either in the creative space or in the recruitment space. This is very similar to Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup framework.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms. This trend extends to the increased growth of jobs in product-focused roles, with a 32% increase since 2017 until now. Why Is Product Management Growing in Popularity? Making the Transition to Product.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In this incredible talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Jake Knapp shared how he developed the Design Sprint, and how to do them well. Startups move from Idea to Launch in much more iterative fashion than other businesses. Not only does this save a lot of time and money, it also results in better end products that people will love.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

million in 2017, and is projected to reach $9,202 million by 2025 , growing at a CAGR of 4.7% Recently we decided to enter this market in our own company( JoySpot ), so I started studying this market heavily to learn how can a Startup penetrate it and be competitive versus titans like Tinder. from 2018 to 2025. Hope you enjoy!

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 26, 2017

One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. It used to be that startups could count on their competitors to be big, dumb, and slow. The end of the cycle.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2020

” 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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

His fourth startup NumberFour is one of the most curiously awaited product launches in 2017. Get your MTP Engage Hamburg tickets today! Marco Börries. Making Ideas Work in a Complex World. Marco is a German entrepreneur with a passion for making ideas work.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

billion in 2017. In a 2017 report on the cosmetics industry, researchers found that “small is the new big,” and they noted that “global brands are losing share as small brands and disruptors are gaining.” The product managers at True Botanicals are also using common startup strategies to connect with customers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results. The strategy lead defined a version of startup metrics for pirates , where we had four key levers we could pull to accelerate growth, like acquisition and conversion.

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Amplitude

MARCH 1, 2018

Startup founders and product leaders are building the future. Building startups is hard and getting harder. It’s important to us that the full power of our behavioral analytics solution is accessible to seed stage startups and builders of software products everywhere so that they can get to product market fit faster.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups. Today, startups use awesome mobile apps to create demand and to solve the same problem. My investing thesis.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. However, unless you’re working in a startup, there is often a limitation on the kind of resources you have access to. The Parable. Conclusion.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This interview happened in 2016 or 2017. For example, if I see that this opportunity comes up more often for designers at startups, then I can focus my recruitment efforts on that segment. When I recall them, they bring me right back to the interview story. That’s the magic of a memorable quote.

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