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How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups

Product Talk

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

He co-authored Objectives and Key Results: Driving Focus, Alignment, and Engagement and authored The OKRs Field Book. Ben shared that the landscape of OKR implementation changed after 2018, when John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters sparked widespread interest in the framework. You can find the others in his book.

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373: Using Lean Startup in large organizations – with Jim Euchner

Product Innovation Educators

Today we are talking about how Lean Startup can be used at large organizations. He has helped many large companies implement innovation practices including Lean Startup and has written the book on the topic, titled Lean Startup in Large Organizations. 1:13] What are the key principles of Lean Startup?

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

Even thinking about implementing a multi-cloud architecture is prematurely optimizing for practically all businesses – especially startups – and not a trap you want to fall into. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes. Containers vs. serverless host environments. Building for scale.

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The Must-Read Book List for Building New Product Ventures

The Product Coalition

I’m eager to see the founding team we’ve put together succeed, so I’ve put together a list of books that contain the ideas that I’ve found most useful for a new product venture at this stage (getting from 0.1 So, now for the list of books on ways of thinking?—?theories, The books have been grouped by topic and rough reading order.

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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product Talk

This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.

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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. It’s a book that spoke to me. Finding this book also made me aware of Steve Blank, its author. Consequently, I think of Eric Ries as the create of Lean Startup and Steve Blank as its father.

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