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

Product Innovation Educators

John Doerr’s startup companies would even write their OKRs in the bathroom for everyone to see. This company got half of their annual business from one conference. Their CEO set an audacious goal for this conference to be a wild success. Ben encouraged the company to set an OKR for the conference anyway.

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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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2018 Product Conferences

Product Talk

We are starting to pull together our 2018 conference list. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Are you looking for the 2017 Product Conference list? The UX Conference 2018.

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Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)

Lenny Rachitsky

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. It also serves over 45% of the Fortune 100.

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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. Instead, look to peer relationships with engineers at similarly sized startups.

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2017 Product Conferences

Product Talk

I often get and see on social media questions about upcoming product conferences. If you know of a product conference that is not on the list and you think it should be, please feel free to recommend it in the comments or send an email to conferences@producttalk.org. Developer Conference – GOTO. Conferences 2018.

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517: How to conduct an AI Design Sprint – with Mike Hyzy

Product Innovation Educators

That’s exactly what I witnessed at PDMA’s recent Inspire Innovation Conference, where Mike Hyzy demonstrated a groundbreaking approach to AI Design Sprints that’s revolutionizing product development acceleration.