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It’s Time to Bring Beta into the 21st Century

Centercode

Product development also looked very different back then. Brainstorming product vision with your engineers and design team? And nestled in the center of all this was beta testing, a practice (usually without standardized processes) that loosely applied to any sort of pre-launch product testing. Not really a thing.

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The Product Adoption Curve in SaaS: What Is It and How To Use It In Your Product Strategy

Userpilot

And that’s because of the Product Adoption Curve. The Product Adoption Curve shows how a product is adopted through multiple segments of the market. Understanding this lets you craft a product marketing strategy for every stage of product adoption. What is the Product Adoption Curve? Table of Contents.

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How Soft Skills Can Save a Business

The Product Coalition

Yet while a political climate is nearly always a factor, soft skills determine which way these politics shape a product, strategy, or the entire direction of a company. For a little over ten years, Nokia was the industry juggernaut in the wireless industry. How did such a powerful business fail to keep their hold as top-dog?

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Apple’s new AirBag–and other innovation insights for product managers Sep 30, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Just for fun – Conan, the product manager, introduces the Apple “AirBag” – innovation no one needs. Need to radically change a product experience – learn from Yahoo Finance rebellion.

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How to Avoid Costly Surprises in Connected Product Design

Mind the Product

When designing connected hardware products, there are many ways in which a project can go sideways and end up way over budget before the product is completed or in a manufacturable state. This list includes: Define your product specifications early. Find a team with comparable production quantity experience.

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Silicon Valley network effects, OKRs for your personal life, and more: Podcast Q&A with Product Hunt

Andrew Chen

I recently did a podcast with Ryan Hoover, co-founder of Product Hunt and my sister Ada Chen Rekhi, previously SVP Marketing at Survey Monkey – here’s what we talk about: The network effects that makes Silicon Valley what it is. Companies and Products Mentioned in This Episode. Bose — Noise-cancelling earbuds.

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Silicon Valley network effects, OKRs for your personal life, and more: Podcast Q&A with Product Hunt

Andrew Chen

I recently did a podcast with Ryan Hoover, co-founder of Product Hunt and my sister Ada Chen Rekhi, previously SVP Marketing at Survey Monkey – here’s what we talk about: The network effects that makes Silicon Valley what it is. Companies and Products Mentioned in This Episode. Bose — Noise-cancelling earbuds.