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How to Create a Product Vision That Energizes Stakeholders

Product Management University

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Here’s the thing.

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How to Become a Startup Product Manager without Experience

The Product HQ

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. That said, while startup product managers are in demand, many prospective professionals still have difficulty figuring out how to embark on this career path. percent for a corporation.

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How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups

Product Talk

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Applied Lean Startup: How to Master Simplicity and Velocity in Business

The Product Coalition

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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Kunal Shah on winning in India, second-order thinking, the philosophy of startups, and more

Lenny Rachitsky

He is the CEO and founder of CRED, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, including Freecharge, which he sold for over $400 million to Snapdeal. Embracing this cycle helps founders understand how to operate, given the stage they are at.

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Startups, Avoid Being Vitamins At All Costs

The Product Coalition

Two weeks later, we started to have concerns over our product and vision. This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot. We’ll talk about how we handled it with all the stakeholders (investors and team) in the next article.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? 99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved.