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The 10th Annual Product Management Awards Winners

The Product Guy

Prior to Vydia, Gaudio built and managed the marketing team at video Ad Tech company, Yashi, which was successfully acquired in 2015 for $33M cash by Nexstar Media Group. Harpal now works as an independent consultant and interim Chief Product Officer (CPO) advising companies and teams globally on strategic product development and innovation.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I’m not a technical Product Manager. If you are having similar problems with your development process I highly advise you to analyze the reasons to them, starting with an honest answer to the question – is your process actually solving your problems?

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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

Chaos Report 2015. Technical Feasibility. I would advise that you don’t invest in digitization until the cost of handling processes manually is higher than the cost of developing a digitized solution. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. 72 percent of innovative software projects are not successful.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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5 Best Design and Innovation Consulting Firms to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Design thinking companies aim to understand users’ pain points before developing a technically feasible solution that addresses their needs. Sketching your ideas.

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On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. 2015 was when I saw a distinction emerge between real-time customer data and BI/analytics data. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. has exorbitant technical costs with maintenance example: Twitch tipping streamers through a system of “cheering” called Bits.