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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?

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

TechCrunch LA

Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maven had already suspended its consumer car-sharing and a peer-to-peer service due to COVID-19. ” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. GM’s experiment with car sharing is over.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. 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.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

Xconomy

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said.

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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.” Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. Quality tech news from around the web. Some more on metrics design and quantification. What a boring mess.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

The first round of pitches are due this week. “DARPA is saying you can’t retrofit [biosafety] into existing technology, you have to design it—not just into widgets and technologies, but into the institutions that are supporting the technologies.”

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Why I Made the Decision to Go from Home Office to Coworking Space

Tech.Co

If you are someone like me who runs a startup digital web design agency in New York and has spent several years working remotely out of your home office, then the move to a coworking space can be a difficult decision to make. But I decided to give it a chance and in 2017, I moved to my first coworking space. So was it worth it?