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

Product Innovation Educators

In 2013, Harvard Business Review published my article “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything.” Large organizations celebrate the stories of innovation heroics, entrepreneurs who fight the internal company system and get a product out against all odds. 28:04] How are these large organizations doing?

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509: Prototyping mastery for product managers – with Matthew Wettergreen, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

He is also an Associate Teaching Professor at the award-winning Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen (OEDK) at Rice University, recruited as the first full-time faculty hire in 2013. Clarify the team assignment * Develop a Design Context Review * Set design objectives and constraints * Develop solution options

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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. ” And so, I decided to launch this event in 2013 called B2B Rocks. Customer due diligence is a big part of knowing your customer.

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Building a challenger bank the Monzo way – Ole Mahrt (ProductTank London)

Mind the Product

In 2013, the Bank of England scaled back the rules and regulations involved in starting a bank. practically impossible for them due to the mix of several outdated, legacy systems. They hoped to kick-start technological innovation within the banking industry through increasing competition. Making innovate changes was (is?)

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Reading list: Thinking about design

Intercom, Inc.

This hugely influential 2013 post by SVP of Product Paul Adams articulated a lot of the core design thinking at Intercom – from the importance of clear company mission and vision to the four layers of product design, and much else besides. The full stack design system. The Dribbblisation of design.

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Top Examples of Coronavirus Customer Communication

Alchemer Mobile

USAA put their members first by returning a large portion of insurance premiums to members due to reduced mileage. Their data revealed members driving less due to stay home orders, so they’re offering a 20 percent credit on two months of premiums to everyone. Alexandru Voica (@alexvoica) April 17, 2020. Shake Shack.

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Top 10 Japanese Tech Companies

freshtrax

133 billion USD) in 2013 to 14,899 billion yen (approx. Japan’s market share has drastically decreased as a search engine service from roughly 50% to 30% and as an auction service due to the rise of new services like Mercari. Net One Systems Co., 423 million USD) it acquired in 2013. 159 billion USD) in 2015. Fuji Soft.