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Curve (Product Review)
I recently heard Shachar Bialick – Founder and CEO of Curve – talk about how the new Curve app will make it easier for small businesses to manage their financial lives. It prompted me to have a first play with the Curve app in iOS, which is currently available as a Beta release. This is what…
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My Product Management Toolkit (23): Customer Empathy
A few weeks ago I attended the annual Mind the Product conference in San Francisco, where Dave Wascha delivered a great talk about some of his key lessons learned in his 20 years of product management experience. He impressed on the audience that as product managers we should “protect our customer”; as product managers we need…
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“Good Strategy. Bad Strategy” (Book Review)
I came across a senior executive a few months ago, let’s call him “Bob”, who talked me through his startup’s strategy. In short, Bob showed me three ‘strategic pillars’ for the business. Each pillar contained a load of specific products and initiatives. When I asked Bob about the strategic challenges that his business was looking…
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Toutiao (Product Review)
Fig. 1 – Screenshot of www.toutiao.com/ homepage When I first heard about Toutiao I thought it might be just another news app, this coming one from China. I learned, however, very quickly that Toutiao is much more than just a news app; at the time of writing, Toutiao has more than 700 million users in total, with…
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My Product Management Toolkit (22): How To Create a Product Culture?
What can you do when you’ve joined a company that hasn’t (yet) got a proper product culture? Making it harder for you to do your job or get people’s buy-in. Unfortunately, this tends be harsh reality for a lot of product managers, who then become increasingly frustrated with a lack of progress or an unchanged…
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