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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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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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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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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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What you need to know about perception to be great at presentations

Miro

What you need to know about human perception to be great at presentations One of the most important factors that contribute to a team’s efficiency is communicating your ideas in the right way. Visual presentations (which can be easily created in RealtimeBoard) are probably the most widespread way to share your ideas, so we decided […]. The post What you need to know about perception to be great at presentations appeared first on RealtimeBoard Blog.

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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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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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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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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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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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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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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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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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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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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.