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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. SAS Canada “customer champions” helped the firm restore declining customer retention rates—which had fallen as low as the mid-80s percent — back to the firm’s traditional high retention rates of 97-98 percent. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.

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Why Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Seeing Both Sides

Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid. How about your Investors ?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. There are too many products clamoring for attention. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months.

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How to Land a $5m Investment by Getting Product-Market Fit

Up and Running

You’ll notice I don’t have to tell you about our product for you to understand the impact it has on the world. I don’t have to tell you the inner workings of our technology or that it’s patented. . Instead, what you read is how to communicate product-market fit. What is product-market fit? Our Process.

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