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Tue Jun 7

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

Behind the Grind: Lessons from a Product Leader, Episode 5 – Does the Product Even Matter?

Great product companies don’t start with a revolutionary idea for a new experience or value proposition that will change the world. In fact, great product companies don’t have much to start with. Most are still searching for the elusive Product-Market Fit (PMF), and while doing so, they have little at their disposal. So, how much does the product even matter in the pre-PMF phase of a startup? Great question, and Manish, our Product Leader in Residence, answers in this edition of Behind the Grind: Lessons from a Product Leader.

Behind the Grind: Lessons from a Product Leader, Episode 5 – Does the Product Even Matter?

Thu Jun 2

  • Culture,
  • Strategy

Mass resignations, democratized content creation, scalable education…

Corey Wu, our Sr. Product Strategist, explores how corporations are forced to respond to market signals including mass resignations, democratized content creation, and scalable education. As a result, companies will need to evolve to stay relevant in the changing market.

Mass resignations, democratized content creation, scalable education…

Tue May 10

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

Product Practice Pedagogy: Terrific Task Tracking

The Product Practice Forum (PPF) is an in-house ritual where product practitioners can seek peer-to-peer guidance, advice, and feedback on projects and problems. So I decided to utilize this resource and ask for feedback on my task tracking setup for a recent high-stakes project. Our team had to build a functioning prototype using new processes and technologies - all in 2-months.

Product Practice Pedagogy: Terrific Task Tracking

Mon May 2

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

Behind the Grind: Lessons from a Product Leader, Episode 4 – A Unified Theory for Mission, Strategy & Experimentation

As a 0->1 product builder, you have strong conviction at the 100,00-foot level. But, at the 1,000-foot day-to-day level, you probably find yourself wondering what exactly you should be doing today to advance your goals for tomorrow. You may be getting frustrated over why friends, colleagues, investors and the media can’t see the opportunity or your vision for the product as clearly as you. And while it’s never easy to admit, you may also be “mistaking motion for progress,” a proven death blow for 0->1 teams.

Behind the Grind: Lessons from a Product Leader, Episode 4 – A Unified Theory for Mission, Strategy & Experimentation

Mon Apr 25

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It: Selection Biases

Whether you’re designing a product for an intended target audience or trying to select a place for dinner, having the correct data is vital and a big step towards ensuring that you can sidestep Selection Biases. But what exactly are Selection Biases, and how can their impact be mitigated? That’s the topic of this edition of You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It

You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It: Selection Biases

Mon Apr 11

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It: Cognitive Biases

Professionally and personally, most if not all of us like to think that we can make logical, rational, unbiased decisions. And most, if not all of us, would be wrong. That is, assuming you're human. Because if that's the case, then I hate to break it to you, but your brain is systematically biased, and there's nothing you can do about it. Or is there?

You’re Wrong & Don’t Know It: Cognitive Biases

Fri Apr 8

  • Product Thinking,
  • Strategy

The Non-Starter of Product Development – Manish Gaudi

Many first-time founders get “solution obsessed,” which makes sense: the thing that excites you is solving someone’s problems. But, it’s proven that one of the smartest things a founder can do to increase their odds of finding Product-Market Fit is to obsess about their customer and understand everything about their challenges. The best founders, in my experience, spend months learning about their customers and prototyping solutions for them to learn what really moves the needle.

The Non-Starter of Product Development – Manish Gaudi