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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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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News.

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2018 Product Conferences

Product Talk

We are starting to pull together our 2018 conference list. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Are you looking for the 2017 Product Conference list? The UX Conference 2018.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

Even thinking about implementing a multi-cloud architecture is prematurely optimizing for practically all businesses – especially startups – and not a trap you want to fall into. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes. Instead, look to peer relationships with engineers at similarly sized startups.

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Product Management Conferences To Attend In 2024

The Product Coalition

For 2024, several excellent conferences dedicated to product management are available, addressing the increasing interest in this field. For 2024, several excellent conferences dedicated to product management are available, addressing the increasing interest in this field.

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14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders

ProductPlan

For a unique fast track to learning and inspiration, however, conferences cannot be beat. We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). 14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders. SaaStr Annual.

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Business of Software Conference USA Relocates to Raleigh NC

Business of Software Conference

We’re thrilled to announce Business of Software Conference USA is relocating to Raleigh, NC – one of the fastest growing tech clusters in the USA. The three founder CEOs of Global Data Consortium, Precision Lender and Kevel have attended the conference over 30 times between them and have always championed the cluster.