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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. In the first meeting, I was assured that clarity on goal, strategy, the partnership was missing.

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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt

Lenny Rachitsky

— Richard Rumelt is a legend in the world of strategy. He’s the author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists, both of which are often recommended by guests on this podcast. Strategies are fundamentally about what you’ll do in response to a challenge.

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Mastering Product Sense and Execution Interviews

The Product Coalition

The stakes are exceptionally high for startups, where a misfit in the product team can have significant repercussions. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. Consistency between the strategy and execution phases is crucial. Emphasize your communication skills, flexibility, and handling conflict or differing opinions.

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Bain Public is hosting its first ever startup event called Product Dayz

Bain Public

(Montreal, Canada) – The Bain Public team is hosting their first ever startup event in November called Product Dayz! Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. Event Information.

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Startup Launches, Bundled Assumptions and Failure

The Product Coalition

Most of us in the startup community have embraced the principles of Lean product development and MVPs. Despite this, most startups still flatline or fail after their MVP has been released. Startups are complex, so there’s many factors at play. This is precisely why growth curves for most startups are flat forever.

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After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early marketing missteps to avoid

The Review by First Round

Before helping early-stage startups, Arielle started her career in Product Marketing at Google, where she helped launch and grow Google Books and AdWords before leading marketing for Gmail. If you are looking to learn more, Arielle has turned the brand strategy work she does at First Round into a cohort-based course, powered by Maven.

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Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

Lenny Rachitsky

His books have sold over 1 million copies in more than 30 languages; he has taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and its Design School; and he has started and sold two startups since 2003. Turn your values into time by putting things in your calendar like prayer, meditation, and exercise.