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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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Top 5 Startup App Development Companies in 2021

The Product Coalition

Here we provide a brief overview of the best app developers for startups for 2021. From day one, most startups are concerned with the question “How to find the best technology partner.” To make things easier for you, we have compiled a list of the best app development companies with immense expertise in working with startups.

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Influential Product Management Mentors

The Product Guy

Then, when I began using Lean Startup techniques in my role in 2012, Chris encouraged me to start a class on Skillshare to teach others. After learning more about my domain, I became influenced by adjacent areas like Agile, Lean, Lean UX, and Lean Startup. He inspired me to try new things and learn as much as I could.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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#mtpcon comes to Singapore in 2019!

Mind the Product

In 2012 we wanted to connect all those communities and share even bigger lessons, so we started a conference in London. Mind the Product started with a simple premise – that by coming together as a community we can all learn from each other, become better product managers, and improve our craft.

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TEI 288: Design sprints for product managers – with John Zeratsky

Product Innovation Educators

Jake joined the team at Google Ventures in 2012, and we started running Design Sprints. Like a startup incubator, we wanted to help startups prove the validity of their business model quickly. Like everyone else, startups struggle to focus their time. Like everyone else, startups struggle to focus their time.

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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.