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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team. As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. Once the project was complete, my team and I discussed the lessons learned.

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TEI 308: How innovators lead transformation – with Tendayi Viki, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

The idea was that large companies are slower than startups, and he compared the team that built the Macintosh computer to pirates because they were working on a breakthrough technology. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:46] 1:46] Tell us about the title of your book, Pirates in the Navy.

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The Top Mobile In-App Feedback Tools of 2022

Alchemer Mobile

We think we’re pretty great – and so do many leading enterprise brands such as CNN, WeatherBug , FanDuel , Capital One, JetBlue, Dunkin’, Zillow, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Safeway, Alaska Airlines, and more. Apptentive allows companies to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across their mobile customer journeys.

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How Culture Add Changes the Conversation on Hiring

Mind the Product

Southwest Airlines was able to align employees on providing a cheap, no-frills experience for customers by hiring people who bought into its vision of air travel. You might know or have hired with some of these biased and subjective tests before. For a time, culture fit helped companies to improve their bottom line.

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Design Sprints by Jake Knapp

Mind the Product

In 2009, Jake and his team decided they wanted to change this so they could prototype a product more effectively, to test demand and help them make better decisions. Startups move from Idea to Launch in much more iterative fashion than other businesses. Test with users. The Design Sprint is the outcome of this process.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. 99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. Who wants to buy ads against the same audiences as major credit card or airlines?

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Breaking the Shop and Marketplace Conundrum

The Product Coalition

Market Entry I have witnessed businesses joining marketplaces in order to enter and test the local market. Start-ups and new brands should choose this path to accelerate the testing of their market entry hypotheses if the marketplace offers access to the relevant customer segments. Amazon’s early forays into China is a good example.