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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. It helps in realizing the vision in a measurable way.

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How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups

Product Talk

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs

The Product Coalition

Two weeks later, we started to have concerns over our product and vision. This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot. We’ll talk about how we handled it with all the stakeholders (investors and team) in the next article.

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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. Of course, in the process, the vision might be changed or refined, but it most likely wouldn’t be reinvented altogether. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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Applied Lean Startup: How to Master Simplicity and Velocity in Business

The Product Coalition

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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A good vision doesn’t have to be hairy

Radical Product

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash Unpacking old myths about what makes a good vision so we can adopt a new, radical approach. We’ve learned that a good vision has to be a BHAG, i.e. a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. In setting a big vision, we set a high-level direction that no one would disagree with. it needs to be radical.

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Syndicated Product Management Articles Originally Published on.

Bain Public

Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that got syndicated across publishers judged to be the best representative of Product Management thinking. Originally published on The Startup The case for rotating though products Empathy is the mother of all product roadmaps. -. A Guide to Narrowing your Focus.

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