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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

Download The Growth Handbook. For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. Sales: Be able to route prospects to our self-service flow or the most appropriate team within Sales, e.g. startups, SMB, MME, based on well-defined customer segments.

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Elad Gil on catapulting into hyper growth

Intercom, Inc.

To help codify his learnings throughout those experiences and share the most repeatable frameworks, he’s published the High Growth Handbook , available from Stripe Press on Tuesday, July 17. Congratulations on the High Growth Handbook. The only good generic startup advice is that there’s no good generic startup advice.

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Lessons learned from scaling a team

Intercom, Inc.

Fun fact: do you know what one of the majors causes of startup failure is? Rare is the startup advice that survives first contact with reality. Startups do to the relationship between the founders what a dog does to a sock.” – Paul Graham. Startups, you see, love to reinvent things. Don’t do it alone,” they say.

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Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)

Lenny Rachitsky

She’s also held leadership roles at PayPal and eBay, serves on the board of Intuit, and is the author of Take Back Your Power. At Facebook, Deb led the creation of Facebook Marketplace, developed the first mobile ad product for apps, built the company’s games business, and launched Facebook Pay.

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Are you cut out for Product Management?

BrainMates

Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. To minimise this, we conduct research, analyse data, run experiments and use every tool and trick in our Product Management handbook to increase our certainty that the product will enjoy success and reward our businesses. Shy away from taking initiative?