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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

A product or feature might have been successful at the time of release, but technical capabilities improve and user expectations evolve. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. For Odeo, pivoting was a defensive move due to competitors taking market share, but not every pivot is a do-or-die situation. and let it go.

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How to Promote Team Diversity in Your Organization and Beyond

ProductPlan

The problem plagues nearly every aspect of the corporate world—technology companies included. Much of this is due to increased churn for female product professionals, who tend to leave technology within the first ten years of their career far more often than their male counterparts. Our world contains multitudes.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Ben Horowitz touched passively on “micro-managing” in Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , reminding us that Product Managers should be more vision-focused than execution-focused : “Good product managers crisply define the target, the “what” (as opposed to the how) and manage the delivery of the “what.”

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. The customer experience of a service is often subjective, making traditional marketplace features like reviews, recommendations, and personalization more difficult to implement. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. Can you take us back to the early days of Accelerate and what the original vision was?

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book " Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant" by professors W. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?