Product Strategy, Boards, Market Fit, Scaling, Pricing, Marketing, Structure, and more, Weekend Roundup Must Read August 31 2013
Product Strategy, Boards, Market Fit, Scaling, Pricing, Marketing, Structure, and more, Weekend Roundup Must Read August 31 2013
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Startup Management is a manual selection from the hundreds of weekly articles being curated. Previous issues are available here. There are 19 links in this edition, and please FORWARD to a friend, so they can sign-up. Community In an ode and a tease, I ask Do Comments Matter? But it’s largely a Yes, because I was celebrating 10,000 comments on Disqus. This post generated some good comments from old and new community members. EntrepreneurshipShould MBAs Learn to Code? Yes, according to Tom Eisenmann and 715 students who take the CS50 course at Harvard. One of the key reasons cited by students is that it “helps persuade recruiters that they were committed to a career in technology.” Product Strategy Robert Hacker wrote a succinct post, How Companies Can Avoid Incrementalism, naming 3 ways. It follows the excellent article by Aaron Schildkrout, Value-Driven Product Development: Using Value Propositions to Build a Rigorous Product Roadmap, where he focuses on the importance of the value proposition in your product roadmap. I tie these concepts together inDon’t Fall in Love with Your Product, and revisit Aaron’s thoughts in
, Eric Paley says not all products need to go viral to reach success. “Some products just require a more meaningful marketing investment to educate and acquire customers before they achieve success.” It’s a quick read, although somewhat biased for the B2B/SaaS side.
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