Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! 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?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There are time-tested ways to accomplish this, including traditional open innovation, incubators, and startups. When we first came out with our Sync system (a voice-controlled entertainment/calling system), there was concern that it would be distracting and shouldn’t be allowed in vehicles. Another approach is a partner program.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1]. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group. You could sign up without filling in a bunch of forms.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. I mean, laugh out loud, entertaining. So he kind of looked around and said, Well, I don’t really know what to do here. I like to learn.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

I know it’s very much antithetical to the way for example, for example, like lean development or lean startup, or you know, the adult or agile runs, but we just have a very different point of view on it that like, if you want to get real feedback, you got to give people the real thing. Other than that, do we want to keep doing it?

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