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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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What Does a Successful MVP Look Like?

Mind the Product

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! What can we Learn?

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Product Management Skills: Influence Without Authority

The Product Coalition

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. Check out our breakdown of how to decode Product Management job titles. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision.

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An OKR Fable

Product Bookshelf

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. OKRs are KPIs with a soul.

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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

And this is a terrifying and disturbing thought because startups and entrepreneurs invest tons of money to build these products. But before we dive into how to build products that customers need, it’s essential to understand why companies fail to do so. How to get started ?—?Explain Closing and call to action ?—?End

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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Be in a Band, not an Orchestra: how to Grow an Agile Product Team

Mind the Product

We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). My job was to define a vision for the product and create a plan to deliver it. Product Vision. Creating the vision for the product early was important. A development team empowered to deliver the product vision based on agreed objectives.

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