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Product Manager vs. Product Owner

Melissa Perri

I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. It was all the same work I had been doing before, but now it had a different name. I liked this name. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. It introduced the concept of a Product Owner.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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How To Build Your Audience Well Before Launching Your Product

Sachin Rekhi

Most entrepreneurs assume that the marketing and audience building phase of their startup begins post product launch. Yet I’ve seen some startups successfully build their audience well before they reach this point. It launched its now famous Signal vs. Noise blog in 2001 to share their ideas about design, business, and the web.

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Erika Hall on the importance of conversation in design

Intercom, Inc.

It’s terrifying when I say we started at the end of 2001, which is now a very, very long time ago. We worked with organizations of all descriptions from the earliest startups to multinational foundations and giant corporations. The importance of naming. Is this a name that’s easy to remember?

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Japanese Female Entrepreneurs who Thrive Against the Odds

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Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

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Paying It Forward

Mironov Consulting

 I don’t know how long it will last, or how deep it will go, but over the last few weeks many companies announced staff cuts or closed startups. I remember major tech downturns in 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2008.  Especially  Especially 2001.  I We’re going through another tech pullback.  I

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GV’s Kate Aronowitz and Vanessa Cho on leading through design

Intercom, Inc.

where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way. I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. I did a little bit of consulting along the way and was also at startup called Wealthfront for a while. Two decades later, these two women are blazing trails in design leadership. Scaling design.