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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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Coronavirus Business Impact: A Startup Disaster or a Big Opportunity to Innovate

The Product Coalition

How many startups will survive the COVID-19 economic crisis ? Startups that have started producing their products in China are at risk of experiencing considerable damages or disappear at all. Consequently, it may cause a slight decrease in investing startups and initiatives pitched by medium-sized companies.

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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. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001. I went on being called a Business Analyst as I worked at banks and other financial services companies. I liked this name. 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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The 20th Anniversary of the Minimum Viable Product: What Happened?

DevelopmentCorporate

The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup. Since 2001 there have been several attempts to improve on the core MVP concept. Think Agile and SAFe, Since 2001 there have been seven different attempts to redefine the MVP.

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What we can Learn from Electric Scooter Companies like Lime and Bird

Mind the Product

Famously, back in 2001, inventor Dean Kamen was going to change the world. And that’s a hugely important lesson for startups and product managers alike. The buzz just before the launch of his Segway personal transporter was astonishing. Tech investor John Doerr posited that it would be more important than the internet. What’s going on?

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Design Sprints by Jake Knapp

Mind the Product

In 2001 Jake was working at Microsoft on the Encarta Encyclopaedia product, and all encyclopaedia content was stored on a CD-ROM – in new and innovative ways for the time. Startups move from Idea to Launch in much more iterative fashion than other businesses. The Genesis. The Design Sprint is the outcome of this process.