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511: Product insights from employee #1 after a $2.3 billion exit – with Chris Elmore

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can foster a culture of innovation Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Chris Elmore, a tech entrepreneur and college professor who helped found Avid Exchange, a unicorn startup that went public in 2021. Or have you seen another employee do this?

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

The discussion reveals how product management has evolved since 1931 and highlights the importance of clear role definition to prevent job frustration. Whether working in large enterprises or small startups, understanding how these activities adapt to different organizational contexts is necessary for success.

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How Smart PMs Scale Their Careers in Any Org [TPG Live Recap]

The Product Guy

What changes when you go from startup chaos to enterprise strategy, or vice versa? Navigate the ambiguity of growth definitions. Shifting Between Startups and Enterprises Moving between startup and enterprise environments is not a promotion. In a startup, ownership might mean doing everything.

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

Intercom, Inc.

If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud. 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. Multi-cloud architectures.

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Practical Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders

Mind the Product

“f**ked” and “crazy” have definitely been thrown around. Founders at early stage startups [.]. The post Practical Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders appeared first on Mind the Product. But “crazy” is a label we use when we don’t understand. What do founders do?

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

Mike shows how the AI tool helps teams: Synthesize Key Insights Compile user insights from discovery Identify core opportunities Define essential functionality Prioritize Features Create MVP feature sets Identify secondary features Tag nice-to-have additions Development Phase The development phase is where the AI-powered approach really shines.

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Practice Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders

Mind the Product

“f**ked” and “crazy” have definitely been thrown around. Founders at early stage startups [.]. The post Practice Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders appeared first on Mind the Product. But “crazy” is a label we use when we don’t understand. What do founders do?

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