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Mastering Workshops: The Two-Hour Blueprint for Maximum Impact

Duct Tape Marketing

Whether launching a change initiative, enabling shifts in performance, or building a culture to achieve next-level success, Leanne’s workshops impact both business and lives. Leanne shared insights from her expertise, focusing on her book, the “Two-Hour Workshop Blueprint.” 14:32] What is power up? [16:08]

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Is This Ex-Googler’s Pre-Product Approach the Fast Track to Product-Market Fit?

View from Seed

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Having The Right It is essential for the following reason: Most new products and innovations fail in the market.

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Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation

Steve Blank

If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. We heard consistently that the product looked good and solved a problem, but it was not an important problem.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. We shut down production to setup your machine.”

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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups

Steve Blank

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). Customer Discovery in the Real World. You need to propose disruptive solutions.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one. Are you a founder or CEO or head of product? You might be surprised how many there are.