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Sometimes Slowing Down Will Make You Go Faster
There’s a reason why there’s such a cult around speed in startup culture. Whoever reaches the market first has a huge advantage, so you better get there before your competitors do, because the first mover advantage often eclipses the importance of who has the best product.
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Where Is This Road Taking Us? : Managing Complexity in Software Development
Queues are the Viet Cong of software engineering; the asymmetrical threat you can’t predict.
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Product Spells D-E-V-I-C-E + S-E-R-V-I-C-E : Lessons from William H. Davidow on High-Tech Marketing
Segmentation is marketing’s most discussed and least understood concept.
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Customer Value as North Star
Just because you’re metric driven, doesn’t mean you’re going in the right direction.
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Take Me to the Moon
Communicating what you want done is the essence of product management, but finding the right level of abstraction can be hard.
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Product People Will Get Us Out of the Fix
It will be a slog for a while, but who ever said it was going to be easy?
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What I Think About When I Think About Design
There are basically two modes of problem solving that are in wide spread use. We need a complementary attack angle.
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Imagine the Unthinkable : Strategy Lessons From an Intelligence Officer
An insight to me might be gobbledygook to you. That’s because its value comes from how I arrived at it.
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Beyond What They Want
How to build products that doesn’t just give people what they think they want.
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Follow Your Fans
A company will forever bear the DNA of its first avid customers.
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The Zen of Fika
The fika is a very Swedish phenomenon. Technically just a coffee break, there’s a lot going on under the surface.
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Death of the Salesman
Being effective at sales has very little to do with how sales people are supposed to behave.
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Love What You Launch
Just because it’s minimal doesn’t mean it’s easy.
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Smarter isn’t Better : the Surprising Truth About High Output Teams
What’s the factor that allows some teams to achieve the seemingly impossible? It turns out you can’t just put the best people from different fields in a room and wait for synergy to happen.
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The Startup Experience
You don’t need a great idea to get started, cash is a nice-to-have, and team is *everything*.