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511: Product insights from employee #1 after a $2.3 billion exit – with Chris Elmore

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can foster a culture of innovation Watch on YouTube [link] TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Chris Elmore, a tech entrepreneur and college professor who helped found Avid Exchange, a unicorn startup that went public in 2021. In fact, he says he’s never read a resume in his life.

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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. ” The problem?

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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The Hardest Lesson—Fail Fast and Validate Early

The Product Guy

Drew explains how, early in his career, he spent too much time making assumptions and building features before validating them with users. He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway.

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The Secrets to Building Unique, Personalized Experiences For Your Customers

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Author of "You: The Product," Entrepreneur, and Digital Leader

Not all customers are the same. The spectrum of our customer bases reflects the unique makeup of our different generations, backgrounds, identities, and much more. We cannot just simply provide the same 'one size fits all' experience to make a quick customer here and there. We need to learn more about them.

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Product in Practice: How Passion.io Applies Continuous Discovery to the Employee Experience

Product Talk

While Eva Spexard s work doesnt fit into the typical product mold, shes found ways of applying a continuous discovery mindset, including conducting customer interviews , building opportunity solution trees , and making iterative improvements over time. We think of People Experience as a subscription product, explains Eva.

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

Product Innovation Educators

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

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Turning Metrics into Dollars: How to Turn Your Analytics Data into a Real Financial Model for your Startup

Speaker: Tristan Kromer, Lean Agile Coach, Kromatic

increase isn't worth the engineering time we're spending! Early stage startups in particular may not need a four year business plan, but they need to start building out a model which will show how they can someday be profitable. Sometimes that 0.1% You'll learn: How to turn basic dashboard metrics into a financial model.

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Before Transforming The Experience, You Need to Disrupt Yourself

Speaker: Vivek Bedi, Product Expert and Keynote Speaker

In both established organizations and “small” startups, leaders need to strike a balance between the speed and agility and scale and relationships that go into successful digital transformations. How to remain (or become) customer-obsessed. In this webinar, you’ll learn: Why you need to transform to survive in the digital age.

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Design Hacks for Non-Designers: Ask Expert Laura Klein

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

Learn a few really common user experience design mistakes and how to avoid making them. Laura—principal of Users Know and author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups—has over 20 years of experience helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development processes.

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100 Pipeline Plays: The Modern Sales Playbook

For the first time, we’re sharing the winning plays that took us from scrappy startup to a publicly traded company. Sell more with proven templates - Customize our winning email and script templates and add them to your workflows for more wins. Hit your number with 100 Pipeline Plays. Close more deals with these winning plays!

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. This is not an overnight realization, and the key to developing an iterative process to PMF is understanding what would make your customer's life easier.