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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.

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

Product Innovation Educators

The core focus of these activities is on thorough market research, continuous customer engagement, and strategic product development. He emphasized the importance of role clarity and how the lack of it often leads to frustrated product managers leaving their positions.

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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.

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The Hardest Lesson—Fail Fast and Validate Early

The Product Guy

He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway. Lessons from Experience: Smarter product development strategies. If youve ever wondered how to avoid wasted effort, this episode will provide the answers.

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

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

The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Regardless of whether you work for a startup or a larger business, its critical to understand what product meets the needs of your audience, what unique value proposition this product is bringing to the market, and when you are straying away from the identified PMF.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). has over fifteen years of experience as a software developer and.

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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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Design Hacks for Non-Designers: Ask Expert Laura Klein

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

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. Join UX designer and product management expert Laura Klein for a no-holds-barred Ask Me Anything session on UX design.

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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

He will share insights he has learned from his successes and more importantly, his failures from his careers at big companies as well as startups. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours! In this webinar, you will learn: How to utilize experimentation to your advantage.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way.