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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Mid-stage startups.

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To MRD or not to MRD.

The Product Bistro

This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process. I got accolades from the leadership team, kudos for capturing it (trick question, I already had it) and bringing clarity to the effort.

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies. As you assemble your team, take special care to select a diverse group of subject matter experts.

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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S., today there are plenty of VC firms, startup incubators, and events for entrepreneurs. ” Liam: Never again.

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The product data VCs want to see before investing in your startup

Mixpanel

Today’s rising borrowing costs and dipping public markets are putting a squeeze on startup fundraising. If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important. Do they need it?”.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. We’ve been focused mostly on looking at how we can grow our team and what might new teams do and what might new people do.

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