Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Today we are talking about how Lean Startup can be used at large organizations. He has helped many large companies implement innovation practices including Lean Startup and has written the book on the topic, titled Lean Startup in Large Organizations. 1:13] What are the key principles of Lean Startup?

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This allows for immediate testing and validation of the user experience. The team’s creative energy feeds into the AI tool’s capabilities, while external validation helps refine and improve the outputs from both human and AI contributions. What makes this process particularly valuable is its flexibility.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. So here’s how Brikker would use the BADIR data analysis framework to overcome all the reasons startup pivots fail. Is this not a far better, data-driven direction for a startup? Going nowhere fast. or “How do we boost engagement?”.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2019

Know how to test a product by measuring risk through desirability, viability, and feasibility. We are discussing a valuable new book titled Testing Business Ideas. He helps companies all over the world find problem-solution fit using lean startup, design thinking, and business model innovation. The lead author is David Bland.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What are the attributes of the framework?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It emphasizes the importance of understanding users and building, testing, and iterating quickly. These are some of the questions on the quiz that Eva and her CEO created to test employees’ understanding of Continuous Discovery Habits. Introducing Continuous Discovery Habits to Passion.io Click the image to see a larger version.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

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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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Raiza previously worked on AI Test Kitchen and has a background in startups, payments, and ads. This allows them to move faster and iterate quickly, much like a startup. Often, powerful technology is already available; the magic lies in how you interact with it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

Customer advisory boards arent just for updates – they should be used to test ideas, validate direction, and catch misalignment early. At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers?

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Product PickEm 2025: The Ultimate Startup Showdown The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. April 4: The final battleonly one startup will take the crown. Who makes it to the finals? Thats up to YOU.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. In the startup context.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. But these methods don’t work well for startups. CEO of June.so

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Example: Sarah is a support manager at a fast-growing startup. Test if the story makes sense. Not a persona. Ask yourself: Who is this for? Whats frustrating them? What triggers their search for something better? Her team is buried in tickets, and customer satisfaction is slipping. Thats who your story is really about.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The reasons why Saas startups are recently making a huge wave to become the next trillion-dollar industry. Over the past years, investment in SaaS startups has been increasing steadily. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. Key Benefits of Saas — Must know for Saas Startups 1.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

While startups need to move fast, getting everyone on board with the decisions that are being made is crucial to actually execute fast. The proposals were better, the team had a vested interest to make them work and it was much easier to get the CEO on board, even if it was a feature or test they would not otherwise have supported.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn. What: What is the minimum set of features that you could build, and test that you are indeed solving the needs of the users?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. In this scenario, trying to implement the Lean Startup methodology might be like suggesting that “shortcut” to the ocean liner.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 2, 2016

That being said, coming from a company that focuses on qualitative research methodologies (usability testing, in-depth interviews, and Friendship Groups™) it was interesting to hear that one of the balancing acts that PMs deal with regularly is the balance between qualitative and quantitative research.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Around 2013, a serial entrepreneur named Mark Randall sold his startup to Adobe and joined Adobe. He realized innovation in a big corporation such as Adobe looks very different from innovation in a startup. You should test a lot of ideas with a little money. You should test a lot of ideas with a little money.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. After re-prioritizing the backlog, I created a new process where at the end of each sprint, the team would present a demo, and we would test and close the JIRA tickets together.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. We agreed “done” would be when the user story had been checked in, code reviewed, QAed and deployed into our staging (test) environment. THE CHALLENGE.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions. Assumption testing is evaluative. And assumption testing is the best way to do that. Assumption testing is evaluative. Prototyping and A/B tests are invaluable tools in our toolbox. We need both.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 17, 2020

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. Quote of the Episode.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2024

There are so many multivariate testing tools available that it can be difficult to choose the right one. TL;DR Multivariate testing is a technique for experimenting with multiple variations of different elements on the same page to determine which combination yields the best results. Leanplum – Best for mobile A/b testing.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), To get over that hump, we talked with Prof Jonathan Hassell about how and when to embed and test for accessibility (or a11y!), Testing for accessibility. Making products that work for everybody.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Janice built her career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. She also guides several venture-funded startup companies, federal government entities, and non-profit organizations. It was the hottest startup in history.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Data from 99firms found that 77% of companies run A/B tests. Many companies choose Mixpanel A/B testing to run their product experiments. To help you make a decision, in this blog, we will go over the specifics of A/B tests in Mixpanel, uncover its pros and cons, and introduce you to a better alternative.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It’s easy to focus on the new skills we need— interviewing , prototyping , testing assumptions , and so forth—but today I want to talk about the mindsets we need to become a successful outcome-driven product team. We need to be able to prototype and test our solutions. We need to test “Are they usable and feasible?”

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact. One name kept coming up: Leo Bosuener.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2021

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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