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Looking for a Product Job? Here’s How to Assess a Company’s Continuous Discovery Habits

Product Talk

Richard has been designing digital experiences since 2005 across broadcast, websites, and mobile apps. Abdel says he is always trying to determine the following about each company he interviews with: Do they differentiate between discovery and delivery? Do they differentiate between outcomes and outputs?

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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

To assist with the practicalities of product management, I propose segmenting user needs in a way that differentiates between the expressed needs that people volunteer, the unexpressed needs they do not communicate, and the unrecognised and potential needs they cannot accurately describe themselves.

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Customer Development Process 101- The Product Manager Guide

Userpilot

The aim of the Customer Validation stage is to develop a differentiation strategy and the sales funnel and to close the first deals. It was first described as a comprehensive framework by Steve Blank in his 2005 book, The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win.

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When going fast is not the same as going somewhere

The Product Coalition

Companies like Gillette, a P&G acquisition in 2005, integrated into P&G’s reinforcing rods and maintained a sustainable competitive advantages in their market. Porter differentiates between merely running in the same direction, s imple consistency, and working together to create synergy effects, reinforcement.

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How to Make Fewer Errors in Your Trial-And-Error Journey

The Product Coalition

Image by Andrina Smylie from Pixabay In 2005 I felt an urge to go back to school. I learned to think and speak in a new language that included things like market forces, differentiation, competitive advantage, barriers to entry, segmentation, and focus. Never stop trying, but make sure you do it right.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. Jenn got her break into the digital industry back in 2005 when her boss walked into the office and asked her to ‘figure out this whole digital download thing.’ James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.