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Scaling Customer Obsession In Your Organization, Part 1: Leadership

The Product Coalition

For startups, creating a customer-obsessed culture is easier if the founders start with it from the beginning, and are open to doing the right thing to scale the culture with their growth. Doing so requires asking 4 main questions: Do you have the right leadership? Do you have the right incentives for that leadership?

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Build Better Products – Laura Klein on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

She’s author of Build Better Products: a Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products ( US / UK ), the funniest trove of practical advice we’ve come across, as well as UX for Lean Startups ( US / UK ), which we didn’t have time to read before our chat. Quote of the Episode. Building better products.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Leadership’s role is to set a framework (or guiding policy ) to allow for good decisions and therefore good actions.

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Product Takeoff

Product Takeoff

Just six days later , Tesla announced a new policy at supercharger stations across the US designed to correct the issue. The big picture for Product Management is based on these principles of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile. Lean Startup techniques help create multiple iterations of tests using a build-measure-learn loop.

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Why Do Most Startups Struggle to Scale?

Modus Create

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. Many startups struggle to carry the momentum of the initial growth spurt. . So, why do most startups struggle to scale? Growth is sacred for startups. It’s a phase that energizes the entire team.

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GDPR: Who Should be Your Data Protection Officer?

Mind the Product

As the newly crowned DPO at my company I believe a product person is the best placed to help a business implement a strong data protection policy in readiness for GDPR next year: after all, a product person should have an overview of the business and know where data is used. What Does a Data Protection Officer do?

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The Product Agent: Managing Ideas on a Product Team

Mind the Product

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. From Startup to Enterprise. A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility.