Product Innovation Educators

JULY 22, 2016

Read this perspective in HBR for more information https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-your-innovation-team-needs-a-lawyer. Listen to the interview at https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/20/tony-fadell-speaks-out-about-innovation-revolution-nest-steve-jobs-and-entrepreneurship/. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and….

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016). When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

If you’re interested in learning more about MVPs, I’m running a one day workshop in Paris on June 14, 2016. A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers – through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. More information here.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2016

Want to get hired as a product manager at a startup? Startups are embracing product management at a faster rate and adding product managers to their teams sooner. This article was written from the perspective of hiring a product manager for a startup but you can use it to learn how to get hired: [link]. 4) Innovating the core.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 17, 2016

New book for learning how to apply Lean Startup practices – Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya. In his first book he shared his experiments applying Lean Startup and provided a how-to guide for Lean practices. Product management, a formal role in organizations since the 1930’s, has become the hot career in 2016. What went wrong?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A guide to vertical strategy implementation for SaaS startups: Tips included 1. Bowery Capital research found that vertical SaaS startups in the manufacturing, cannabis, transportation, and drones industries are expected to see continuing growth. However, in 2016, the founders of Innovaccer opted to focus solely on healthcare.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

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 Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2016

While product management has existed for decades, 2016 is the year the role reached new popularity. Who’s better at innovation – startups or big companies? Traditionally innovation in big companies is thought of as incremental improvements to what they do and not the disruptive leaps in innovation that startups can make.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 12, 2016

Read about each from a poker player turned product manager turned startup founder… https://roadmunk.com/blog/poker-product-management/. See the suggestions at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2016/08/tools-use-product-manager/. Poker lessons that apply to product management. (1) 1) Nurturing luck through collaboration and feedback. (2)

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First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. Since he cut his teeth as a first-time founder in turbulent times, he's gone on to build two other companies.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2016

Read more at https://strategyn.com/2016/07/11/customer-needs-defined/. New Podcast Episode: Innovate like a startup – with Michael Docherty. Insights lead to innovations and increased value for customers and the organization. They are essential for growth. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1) 1) Relationships. (2)

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

9 startup founder skills that product managers also need. The post Creating product teams–and other innovation insights for product managers July 1, 2016 appeared first on The Everyday Innovator - Resources for Product Managers and Innovators. The 4 key customer experience competencies B2B product managers should master. (1)

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2016

Author of the new book, Chaos Monkeys, and former product manager at Facebook shares why “working at Facebook at the time was more stressful than being at a startup.” 2) Seek out the startups that want to eat your lunch. (3) Product manager at Facebook – $20M products don’t move the needle. Read more at [link].

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Whether it be participating in an innovation lab, investing in a startup, or traditional M&A, there are plenty of ways to outsource innovation. The post Apple’s new AirBag–and other innovation insights for product managers Sep 30, 2016 appeared first on The Everyday Innovator - Resources for Product Managers and Innovators.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This article comes from a writer who was inspired by one of my little posts – thanks for sharing your insights Conaway… https://www.getflow.com/blog/crickets-crumbs-the-art-of-startup-team-leadership. How product managers should handle the 7 worst customer feedback scenarios. (1) 3) Your colleagues believe their feedback has been ignored.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 Her prior experience includes product management at Wayfair, Constant Contact and an educational software startup. Contributed by Cynthia Andre. Other jobs on the list included Data Scientist, Tax Manager and HR Manager.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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freshtrax

JULY 16, 2019

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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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 19, 2017

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. Some providers, such as Microsoft, have started providing their services free to startups, in the hope of turning them into paying customers as they grow. Instead, startups are raising more capital and burning more capital to get to their Series As. AWS instead of your own datacenter.

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

On December 10, 2016 , a twitter user wrote, “@elonmusk the San Mateo supercharger is always full with idiots who leave their Tesla for hours even if already charged.” The big picture for Product Management is based on these principles of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, sponsored by Amplitude, learn how to apply this ethos to [.].

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “product-market fit” that is the manna from heaven to a modern corp.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

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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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We’re talking about world-class universities, countless startups, VCs and more. Reason #4: Startup incubators and accelerators. I’ll admit that early stage startups don’t always (think that they) need product managers BUT that’s not always the case. According to the Boston Startups Guide there are 50 (!)

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Analysts estimate that by 2022, global corporate eLearning will grow to be a $30 billion market.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. The role that started me on this path was joining a very small startup a little over a decade ago, Climate Corp.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

Since its establishment in 2013, it has been providing best-in-class website development, web app development, and mobile app development services for startups, small businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Since 2004, the company has delivered services for startups and already world-famous brands.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

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. They also need to tell a story to go with the data.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

Many startups build something for themselves only to discover that other people want it. For example, you’re not going to get TechCrunch to cover that insanely complex feature you spent months building, so your startup shouldn’t waste time building a landing page for it. Start creating your product marketing plan.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. 2016 – Accelerating Growth. The first sign of hockey stick growth, 2016. The four of us had one clear goal: growth.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

A larger ecosystem of these big players sooner or later becomes a threat for the product-led-growth startups. Microsoft launched Team in 2016 and took over many customers of Slack, and currently has almost twice as many daily active users as Slack. Slack has a strong presence in the startups’ ecosystem as a single collaboration app.

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