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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor.

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product Talk

Sometimes it’s because they’ve personally experienced a pain point and want to address it. This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004.

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Discovering Solutions: Quickly Determine Which Ideas Will Work (And Which Won’t)

Product Talk

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions.

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Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn

Product Talk

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.