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A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017

socalTECH

Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? It means competition is more fierce because formidable new competitors can arrive overnight. At productboard we aim to bake best practices of product management straight into the interface, so you can improve the way you manage your products right out of the box. Read more… ?? Read more… ??

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

exabytes per month at the end of 2017, of which more than half was video. Surdak emphasizes that the goal is to either mitigate some of the pressure caused by data growth or to put that pressure to work for you in growing your startup and remaining competitive: Focus: play to your strengths. Data enable: use metrics and measurements.

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

Berkonomics

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. Well-tuned metrics are an absolute must. Discord is a great example of a company going viral mostly from word of mouth. Fourth: measurement.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Ajay Royan told Bloomberg in 2017 that Mithril does not “charge excessive fees.” Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. When should you start a company?

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8 Disciplines for Transforming Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

Manage the business with metrics and goals. Business objectives need to be quantified and measured to assess progress and positioning against competition. Metrics drive a results-oriented culture that leads to continuous quality improvements, required pivots, and recognition of success.

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10 Ways To Prepare For Competitors You Don’t See Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

What metrics should you use to measure success? Define both hard data and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the new solution, as well as on the productivity of you team. That means you must know the current state of competitors against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or success.

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