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Applied Lean Startup: How to Master Simplicity and Velocity in Business

The Product Coalition

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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Product manager is an unfair role. So work unfairly.

Lenny Rachitsky

Hide, ignore, and automate Slack 😑 Unfair: In my experience, PMs get tagged on Slack far more than any other role in a startup. (OK, This has been my ironclad rule since 2016, at three hypergrowth companies, while PMing multiple teams at once. Whoever gets over the awkwardness will have a huge productivity advantage.

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Case Study: Launching PayMe from HSBC

Mind the Product

Fast forward to 2016 when I joined HSBC in Hong Kong and repitched the idea in my first week of working there – then, the timing was great. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach.

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The Interview Snapshot: How to Synthesize and Share What You Learned from a Single Customer Interview

Product Talk

This interview happened in 2016 or 2017. The memorable quote from this interview was something as simple as, “I tagged over 10,000 photos with people’s names, activities, and location. For example, if I see that this opportunity comes up more often for designers at startups, then I can focus my recruitment efforts on that segment.

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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.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. 2016 – Accelerating Growth. 2017 – Scaling and Going Viral.

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Interview: Advice for the Innovator’s Dilemma with Paul Young

bpma ProductHub

Unless you work at a startup where you don’t have any existing products yet, there is probably a vocal group of stakeholders, such as customers and sales, that’s interested in fixing real or perceived issues with your existing products. On Product Management, 2016 and Beyond.