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

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Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? link] A year in review: productboard’s top 10 posts from 2017 was originally published in The Age of Product Discovery on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Still prioritizing features in a spreadsheet? Read more… ??

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New software lets marketers better leverage social media influencers

StartUp Beat

In 2017, these sorts of collaborations between big brands and influencers are only to increase.”. Influencers don’t always post what they agreed to, and many campaigns fall short of expectations due to a lack of actionable, metric-driven insights.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. The best CEOs realize that they must transition from being individual contributors to team builders and adjudicators who settle conflicts of “resource allocations.”

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Ajay Royan told Bloomberg in 2017 that Mithril does not “charge excessive fees.” Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head. Some more on metrics design and quantification. To every member of Extra Crunch: thank you.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Shape your business by design, not by default. Focus on your passion and your vision of what you want to accomplish, and make that come alive in the design and delivery of everything you do. To check your return on marketing investment, you need to define metrics and a formal process to evaluate progress and cost tradeoffs.

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7 Steps To Driving A Culture Of Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Decide what to measure and create metrics. Design your invisible competitive advantage. Every company has different strengths and goals, yet each can publish internally their innovation canvas of technology, leadership, people, structure, rewards, and metrics that sets them apart. You only get what you measure.

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