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The Product Vision Sprint: 5 days to a tangible product vision

The Product Coalition

80 to over 100 hours per week to “change the world” is what Elon Musk wrote in a 2018 tweet, referring to what was considered a standard working week at the time Tesla was ramping up production of its Model 3 sedans. a clear and compelling vision. Sometimes the Product Vision was something spoken by a visionary leader, but unseen.

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Empathy & vision–and other innovation observations for product managers Apr 20, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

Empathy and vision advice from product VP. She responded with the need to have a clear product vision but to lean on empathy and flexibility. Innovation labs are often used by larger organizations in an effort to “act more like a startup.” Also, laughter should be part of the job. Consider… (1) Customer Retention. (2)

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company.

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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. In 2018, the total amount of VC investments was more than $3.5 These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Top 10 Largest Japanese Companies in 2018.

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What we learned about product and design in 2018

Intercom, Inc.

I think this obsession with efficiency comes from the startup days when being wasteful was a debt. And operations, like design ops, is really cool in 2018 – as is research ops and product management ops, which will be coming next year. Was this a substantial investment for us in 2018? Des: And VP of Product Ops. Emmet: Exactly.

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A decade in the making: An oral history of Intercom’s first 10 years

Intercom, Inc.

Join us as we recall the initial aha moment, the early startup missteps, and the major milestones that have marked our first 10 years. But as Intercom co-founder Eoghan McCabe said in a keynote address back in 2018, that reign was starting to sour. The whole thing wasn’t some massive brand vision. It just snowballed.

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Google Design Sprints–and other innovation observations for product managers Mar 30, 2018

Product Innovation Educators

In five days put Design Thinking to work with Lean Startup concepts sprinkled in to (1) understand, (2) conceptualize, (3) align, (4) build, and (5) validate a product concept and you have a Google Design Sprint. Using product vision to create north star metric. What is a Google Design Sprint? See more at [link].