Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Startups are often talked about as if they’re all the same, as if experience in one is directly transferable to another. The post The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. She covers why she [.]. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Here we provide a brief overview of the best app developers for startups for 2021. From day one, most startups are concerned with the question “How to find the best technology partner.” To make things easier for you, we have compiled a list of the best app development companies with immense expertise in working with startups.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. The Black Mirror Test. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Talk to us.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Be sure to get specific.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. The Black Mirror Test. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

She’s author of Build Better Products: a Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products ( US / UK ), the funniest trove of practical advice we’ve come across, as well as UX for Lean Startups ( US / UK ), which we didn’t have time to read before our chat. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Be sure to get specific.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 18, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

As Head of Product at Founders Factory , a corporate-backed accelerator and incubator for early-stage startups based in London, Seb Sabouné works with founders and teams to become more product led. 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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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

MARCH 23, 2021

Fanni’s article, How to Price Your Product in a Startup. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Links mentioned in this episode. Follow Fanni on LinkedIn. Founders Factory. Get in Touch, Rate Us, and More! Know the perfect guest?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Boston Consulting Group estimates that 70% of digital business transformation projects fail. Specialists decide what value and basic features should be implemented first to test the idea.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), Testing for accessibility. Making products that work for everybody.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. We agreed “done” would be when the user story had been checked in, code reviewed, QAed and deployed into our staging (test) environment. THE CHALLENGE.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This week, former US Marine William Treseder – now co-founder and SVP of Product at innovation consultancy BMNT – joins us to talk about how he works with Government, Defense, Academic and Corporate clients to transform their innovation culture. [.]. The importance of Innovation. Design Sprints. . Get in Touch, Rate Us and More!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. Bruce’s consultancy, Product Culture. Bruce’s consultancy, Product Culture.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Are they keen to test it out? Alan Gleeson is a B2B Marketing Consultant based in London with a passion for helping SaaS businesses to grow. Nonetheless, you can also use it to gauge appetite for your offering.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers. Should you go work at a startup? 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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

UX consultant and strategist David Farkas talks us through how he’s helped teams to better collaborate, communicate, and work together by introducing some of the activities and philosophies to his teams – something he covers in depth in his book, Collaborative Improv – Building Better Products Through Improvisation.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 14, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to taking on the role of COO and CPO at Singapore-based financial portal MoneySmart, Nick Ramsay was a strategy consultant and product manager. 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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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2019

I see a lot of product managers from an enterprise company go, ‘Hey, I’m gonna work at a startup, it’s gonna be awesome’ And then they get in there and they go ‘Holy crap, what happened? Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Startups, scale-ups, and unicorns get all the press – but there are an awful lot more product people working at large organisations. Startups, scale-ups, and unicorns get all the press – but there are an awful lot more product people working at large organisations. and runs ProductCamp in Bristol and Bath.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. I identify as a coach and not a consultant. We can actually test our designs. We’re going to test, does this solution address the target opportunity? I think that was in 2004.

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