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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

Using this idea to differentiate themselves as the hot new Silicon Valley VCs, some of his former business school students made this phrase their rallying cry. In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Product Pioneer. First to sell the product. Fast Followers – a better idea. First to develop or patent an idea. First Mover.

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[Interview] Ed Rempel, Certified Financial Planner, Founder Of Unconventional Wisdom

YoungUpstarts

Ed Rempel has been countering financial conventions at least since he hung up his professional shingle as a Toronto-based certified financial planner in 1993. Registered investment advisors like Rempel have a fiduciary responsibility to act in their clients’ best interests and accept no compensation based on product sales.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

If your product or service is leading the market, that’s a great feeling, but it’s important to remember that the “game” isn’t over. . “The Fab Five”—The 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. It also presents an opportunity to differentiate your product or service in a competitive market.

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[Interview] Tony Saldanha, Author of ‘Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead’

YoungUpstarts

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. For decades, Domino’s played second fiddle to market leader Pizza Hut.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. That’s how we react and give them the best product that we can. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent. You built your website in 1993?

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