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The Startup Lifecycle: How To Win At Each Stage

The Product Coalition

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. No Market Need.

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Pivoting a Startup with User Research

Basel Fakhoury

three broke startup founders (without a startup)?—?were One lesson that we learned from our first failed startup was that it’s impossible to validate (or invalidate) an assumption unless you set clear success and failure criteria. That’s when we realized that finding people to participate in user research studies sucks.

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. About 90% of companies in their 2018 research aren’t fully realizing the full potential of their design teams. indicates the struggle is real.

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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. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. Get your tickets.

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Return of the Speakers // #BoS2018

Business of Software Conference

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. 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. Hangout with Joanna Wiebe BoS USA 2018.

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The most critical relationship for product managers to build

The Product Coalition

At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. I’m a Product Manager at Doximity , the largest online network for clinicians, and a 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Company. No matter the stage of the company, product people will find themselves working alongside a tech lead of some sort.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. We have to basically succeed by delivering disruptive differentiated technology because there’s no way we’ll win on cash – the US always wins on cash. So that was the first great instance of failure that I experienced in my career. SAP $121bn company.