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Why your startup might never achieve great design

UX Planet

Avoiding the 7 most common mistakes founders make when building a design team and culture in their startups. Intro If you’re reading this article, you’re probably at a point where forming a competent design team for your business is essential. Consequently, many products are initially developed without a designer on the team.

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Peter Thiel's Anti-Lean Manifesto

Sachin Rekhi

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. A bad plan is better than no plan." Origin of Lean Thinking. Plans Matter.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. The product team discovered that visitors mostly used the video upload feature and stripped down all other features over time. The game “Glitch” was the first product launched in 2011.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. The superpower became a weakness. The truth is quite different.

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468: Discovering the heart of innovation Part I – with Merrick Furst, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

In 2011, he founded Flashpoint, a first-of-its-kind deliberate innovation studio, to develop formative leaders and exceptional technology startups. Both at Flashpoint and at CDI, Merrick works with hundreds of founders and innovators and is developing the discipline of Deliberate Innovation.

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.