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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. ” The problem?

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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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Synthesia becomes the UK’s largest AI product: Lessons for product teams

Mind the Product

The AI-powered platform creates videos using virtual characters and text. Its primarily usedby over 60,000 customers to make videos for training, sales, and education. The startup, founded in 2017, is a milestone for the product and aims to aid Synthesia in its next phase of product expansion.

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How Smart PMs Scale Their Careers in Any Org [TPG Live Recap]

The Product Guy

What changes when you go from startup chaos to enterprise strategy, or vice versa? Shifting Between Startups and Enterprises Moving between startup and enterprise environments is not a promotion. Startups move fast but often ignore foundational elements like QA, analytics, and stakeholder processes. It is a pivot.

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Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

Lenny Rachitsky

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. If nobody likes that hilarious video you just posted, forget it and try again tomorrow. It also serves over 45% of the Fortune 100.

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Growing up without growing old: How to keep the startup spirit as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

. “You grow into the big, bloated company once you stop being a startup” This talk I gave at Web Summit 2021 is about pushing back against that. Here, I dive into how to remain a startup, what to look out for as you scale, and how to grow up without growing old. The key takeaway?

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

Product Talk

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.