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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Green ketchup, bottled water for pets, airport security “action figures”, yogurt shampoo – there have been some pretty epic product failures over the years. However the reality is that a significant majority of products don’t succeed. By Malcolm Stewart, CEO of YouEye.

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How To Succeed As A Product Manager

YoungUpstarts

by Beata Green, Director of HeadChannel. New technologies emerge daily and bring ingenious products to the world. It’s generally accepted to praise developers and designers for bringing these products to life but there is usually someone else behind the concepts and ideas. necessary product. necessary product.

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This I Believe: A Manifesto for a Magnificent Career

Occam's Razor

My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. Sometimes the overlap between green and orange is huge, and it has very little blue. And since 14th of May 2006 , this has been my safe harbor, my warm place, and my escape when work was all green and orange.).

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. One last note on reporting.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Photo credit: Jenna Green. Thanks to Jenna Green, Moscow Muled ! #9- The sense of triumph that comes with navigating a project through the identification of a problem and a solution to the development of a business that succeeds is incredible. Thanks to Alexandra Zamolo, BEEKEEPER ! #8- 8- Giving back to the community.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book.