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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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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. If there’s a problem in production, developers need to own it.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s just that if we look at that as a form of marketing, like social media marketing or mobile marketing, that it really is just marketing that happens to use content. So it’s like saying TV marketing or newspaper marketing when I say social media marketing or mobile marketing. Robert Rose: No.

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The Power of Disability Inclusion in the Technology and Entrepreneurial Sector

Austin Startup

by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. Advocates for diversity and inclusion (D&I) want to see a greater commitment to inclusion in product development and diversity in global employment and hiring practices. including disability.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Creative, innovative, or dreamy (not so sure about the last one), green 'get started' button or orange? As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Forgive me, I'm a green Quora user.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Are You Making The Single Worst Brand-Building Mistake A Company Can Make? 

YoungUpstarts

And it’s not just product developers who risk a lack of empathy. PEMCO developed a bus ad campaign that featured humorous Pacific Northwest images that sparked Seattleites’ sense of community, pride, and kinship. It’s not easy. Smart, experienced, highly trained marketers have fallen prey to the empathy gap.

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