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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

How dare you,” the fab manager said. “We The supplier’s CEO directed his business unit general managers to take a SyncDev workshop. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer. I explained how we’d manage technical risks.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. Based in Tokyo, Japan, Keiichiro Nozaki is the Regional Marketing Architect and Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China and Japan, for F5 Networks. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution.

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Migrating to Universal Analytics Using Google Tag Manager

ConversionXL

There are many benefits of using a Tag Management System, though as my friend Julien Coquet puts it, “ it’s not a miracle cure.” While a Tag Management System does not make an implementation immune to these changes, the use of a single JavaScript snippet makes it less likely for an on page change to wipe out particular tracking.

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Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. All the usual caveats apply.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Often former government employees, at the level of GS-15 and below, will leave as staffers and return the next day working for large Beltway contractors, working or managing the same programs they previously worked. In some agencies, large contractors seem to “own” sections, offices, organizations, or programs.