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Overcoming your Company’s Fear of Failing

UserVoice

The latest generation of entrepreneurs has contributed its share of buzzwords and mantras to the business lexicon with mixed results. We all now know “unicorns” aren’t just mythical horses. “Disruption” is a legitimate strategy for a company trying to break into a new market… and a legitimate fear for those already making money there. And, of course, we know the best way to hone your business.

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Required reading for marketplace startups: The 20 best essays

Andrew Chen

The current generation of marketplace startups has been incredibly successful. Airbnb, Lime, Uber, Lyft, Instacart, etc. I’ve been doing a broad survey of the best writing on this topic and wanted to share my list of 20 best links I’ve seen. Marketplaces at Andreessen Horowitz. We look at a lot of marketplace startups at Andreessen Horowitz @a16z – and we fund a lot of them!

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Women in Product Management: Corey Fiedler, VP, Head of Product Management at Broadridge

280 Group

For our next installment of the Women in Product Management Series I interviewed Corey Fiedler, VP and Head of Product Management at Broadridge. To read the entire series on Women in Product Management make sure to sign up for our newsletter. What attracted you to Product Management? My first role after graduating with my M.B.A was as a project manager for a small Fintech company where I was employee number 15.

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8 Keys to Getting Started

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. Talented and friendly people, office with an ocean view, and free bagels on Fridays?

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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How Intercom helped a bootstrapped SaaS business punch above its weight

Intercom, Inc.

In order to make bootstrapping work, you need to be scrappy, ruthlessly prioritizing your actions and avoiding non-essential expenses. Having one tool that helps you do all your most important work – sales, marketing and support – makes life so much easier. We’ve been pretty vocal about our love for Intercom as we’ve grown Ad Reform and Userfeed , our profitable, bootstrapped SaaS businesses over the last year.

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Introducing the Mobile+AI Lab

Roy Madden

Join the Feedly Lab. The Feedly mobile app was created during the Google Reader shutdown storm. During the past 5 years, the app has delivered on its promise and helped millions of curious minds connect to their favorite sources and topics on the go. Today we are launching an initiative called the Mobile+AI Lab. In our minds, this is an opportunity to work with you, the Feedly community, to create a faster, simpler, and smarter Feedly.

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When OKRs Become MBOs and Accountability, Part 1

Johanna Rothman

I have personal and professional goals. Sometimes, I state them as objectives: complete this book, learn that thing. Those are personal objectives. My personal objectives look like MBOs, Management By Objectives. These personal objectives contribute to my company, but they are not a corporate objective. Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal.

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Experiment 01 — Smooth Scrolling

Roy Madden

The first experiment of the Mobile+AI Lab is around the scrolling experience in the mobile app. The main purpose of the Feedly mobile app is to allow you to quickly skim through 50 to 100 articles, pick and read 3 to 10 of them, and share or save the most interesting ones. How easily and naturally you skim through articles is the most important part of the experience.

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Why I’m Taking BrainStation’s Product Management Course | Casey

BrainStation Product Management

Casey has recently started working in business development for Teach Away, a global teaching recruitment and placement platform. As she works to expand and develop the company’s product offerings, Casey found that her new role requires skills beyond the scope of her previous experience. We asked Casey about why she is taking the Product Management course and how she plans on utilizing her learned skills to excel in her new position.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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5 Common Mistakes B2B Marketers Make When Gating Content

DemandMatrix

Choosing whether or not to gate your content has become a big topic of discussion among marketing professionals. There are definite pros and cons to the content gating decision, but once you decide to gate your content for your audience, there are some common mistakes that can be avoided with a little preparation and forethought to your gating process.

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The LAER Effective Managed Services Organization

TSIA

The theme for our upcoming fall Technology & Services World (TSW) conference, taking place October 15-17 in Las Vegas, is “The LAER Effective Company” In the spirit of this theme, I wanted to help managed services organizations get the most out of their TSW experience by providing a primer on the LAER model and the LAER Efficient Journey, as well as give a preview of the “LAER Effective Managed Services Organization” conversations we will have at the conference.

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5 Mistakes B2B Marketers Make When Gating Content

DemandMatrix

Choosing whether or not to gate your content has become a big topic of discussion among marketing professionals. There are definite pros and cons to the content gating decision, but once you decide to gate your content for your audience, there are some common mistakes that can be avoided with a little preparation and forethought to your gating process.

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How to Find Quality Participants, Fast

UserInterviews

The quality of your participants can make or break your UX research study. Here are a few tips to attract the best quality, most relevant search participants, fast.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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How Udemy gets creative with UX research

UserTesting

Today’s article is a guest post from Udemy’s Director of UX Research, Claire Menke. Enjoy! Udemy is an online video-based learning marketplace founded in 2010 where any learner can find the right teacher in an area of interest—from Python programming … The post How Udemy gets creative with UX research appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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How to Find Quality Participants, Fast

UserInterviews

The quality of your participants can make or break your UX research study. Here are a few tips to attract the best quality, most relevant search participants, fast.

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How Udemy gets creative with UX research

UserTesting

Today’s article is a guest post from Udemy’s Director of UX Research, Claire Menke. Enjoy! Udemy is an online video-based learning marketplace founded in 2010 where any learner can find the right teacher in an area of interest—from Python programming … The post How Udemy gets creative with UX research appeared first on UserTesting Blog.

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How to Find Quality Participants, Fast

UserInterviews

The quality of your participants can make or break your UX research study. Here are a few tips to attract the best quality, most relevant search participants, fast.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Overcoming your Company’s Fear of Failing

UserVoice

The latest generation of entrepreneurs has contributed its share of buzzwords and mantras to the business lexicon with mixed results. We all now know “unicorns” aren’t just mythical horses. “Disruption” is a legitimate strategy for a company trying to break into a new market… and a legitimate fear for those already making money there. And, of course, we know the best way to hone your business strategy and create a killer product is to “fail fast.”.

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From World Cup to World Series: Lessons in Creating Winning Cultures

Mind the Product

Do you remember the last time you made a mistake in a big meeting, or received “constructive” feedback in front of others? I bet it felt like all eyes were on you, and your secret wish was that the ground would open up just long enough for you to make a clean escape. Well, imagine that happening in front of tens of thousands of people – who really are staring at you.

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Behind the scenes of product development: Building the perfect product

Hutwork

Most on the customer side of product development don’t see the long days and hard nights that go into creating an amazing product. Your product’s success is much like an iceberg. The bulk of the berg (what actually happens) lies beneath the calm waters and your customers see only the shiny tip (your product) sticking out. The following infographic depicts what you can expect to experience when creating your product.