YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
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.
Seeing Both Sides
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.
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Seeing Both Sides
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
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.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
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 ?
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot? Is that good?
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. It all depends on where you’re at. Google won’t care.
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