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Grip (Product Review)
Grip is a London based startup that specialises in “smart event networking software”. That sounds like a relevant problem to solve, because don’t we all have a (secret) love-hate relationship with ‘networking’ at events!? Yes, I’d love to meet with interesting people at events but I hate approaching people ‘cold’. Let’s have a closer look at…
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Lessons learned from Uri Levine, Co-Founder of Waze
Last Friday, I attended a talk by Uri Levine, Co-Founder of Waze, a community-based traffic and navigation app that was sold to Google for $1.1 billion. In a two-hour session, Uri shared some of his key learnings from the Waze startup journey; from starting from scratch to a successful exit. I felt that his talk was…
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My Product Management Toolkit (21): Assessing Opportunities
Earlier this year I wrote about the tools and techniques to use when exploring market viability. I believe that the ability to properly assess specific opportunities is closely linked. I’ve found that, especially at the early startup stage, there are plenty of opportunities to potentially go for, as they’ll all bring in revenue and offer growth potential.…
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Vipps (Product Review)
I’m always on the lookout for new payment apps and I recently came across Vipps. Vipps is a Norwegian peer to peer payments app, currently only available to Norwegian users. These are the main things I’ve learned about Vipps: Main learning point: Love how apps like Vipps are making it easier and easier for people to pay…
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“Influence without Authority” (Book Review)
As product managers, we’ve all experienced it: a sense of frustration when you’re accountable for delivering value without having any authority over the people that are critical to delivering that value. Whether it’s stakeholders, customers, developers, designers, there’s only so much we can do to influence and create the level of buy-in or cooperation required…
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