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Top 10 Product Talks of 2017

Mind the Product

In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of Mind the Product and Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, shares her own stories of dealing with people, and how she handles the toughest part of the job. People are unpredictable, they have strong opinions and unconscious biases. Design Sprints.

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The art of starting a startup — Gagan Biyani’s advice for generating, validating, and executing on ideas

The Review by First Round

After being early at 3 startups that achieved over $1 million in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan has learned some valuable lessons and seen a wide range of outcomes — from Udemy going on to IPO in 2021, to Sprig shutting down in 2017. In our conversation, we dive deeper into the process of starting a startup.

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Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Product Talk

They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions. Assumption testing is evaluative. And assumption testing is the best way to do that. Assumption testing is evaluative. So in 2017, I released my first online course, Continuous Interviewing. We need both.

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Can Machine Learning Help Supercharge Your Products? [+Webinar]

280 Group

Google shifted from mobile-first to AI-first strategy in 2017. But it’s important to take test criteria into consideration early on and constantly test the model until you find the right model that delivers satisfactory results. Testing the models early and frequently from end-to-end : You can think of ML models as black boxes.

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Can Machine Learning Help Supercharge Your Products? [+Webinar]

280 Group

Google shifted from mobile-first to AI-first strategy in 2017. But it’s important to take test criteria into consideration early on and constantly test the model until you find the right model that delivers satisfactory results. Testing the models early and frequently from end-to-end : You can think of ML models as black boxes.

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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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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.”