If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words – and not the presentation of ourselves – is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of London’s Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the world’s most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
What is an Elevator Pitch?
The Elevator Pitch is a concept inspired from the world of business. Supposed you are in an elevator with a wealthy and influence person that you want to seduce into supporting your project. What do you say?
Well you need to present your idea intelligently, briefly and attractively. That's the Elevator Pitch. By Joelle Hatem
Three business basics to always remember! People don't care about your brand. They care about what you can do for them. Back to basics... Give people what they want, do it consistently and do it better than your competition.
UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
So you've built a great product. Everyone is happy, the team is stoked and the only thing left to do is regularly check the bank account to see if it's growing steadily...right?
Of course the reality couldn't be more different if it wanted to. Getting a person to use your product or service is often one of the most difficult challenges any business will face. Especially when those people will need to pay for that product or service.
When you've built a reputation and boast a solid user base things are much smoother, but those first customers...
This SlideShare does not promise success, but hopefully it'll inspire you to close those first deals. Good luck!
www.floown.com
Phil Dillard, Black Ant, @PhilD0210
The objective of the Lean Startup 101 training is to introduce the concepts, terminology and approaches — and, to help organizations overcome resistance accepting the new approach so that exploration and learning can begin. This practical, interactive session will provide a solid foundation for advanced sessions, including the Lean Startup 201 & 301. This training is designed for practitioners in both the enterprise and in startups who are relatively new to the Lean Startup approach or who are seeking a quick refresher. Lean Startup 101 is a perfect way to kick off your week of Lean Startup!
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
If you are like many people, even the thought of delivering a speech in front of an audience will get your palms sweating. The fear of public speaking ranks high among the most common phobias, and for good reason: most of us approach the situation with the wrong mindset, which in turn makes us live out our worst fears in a public forum.
As Michael Parker notes in IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY: How to Sell Your Message When It Matters Most (A TarcherPerigee paperback; on sale January 2016), our fixation on the content of our words – and not the presentation of ourselves – is what brings us down. Once the Vice-Chairman of London’s Saatchi & Saatchi, and one of the world’s most experienced advertising pitch men, having made more than 1,000 pitches in his successful career, Parker has learned first-hand that an effective presentation, a job interview, or even a speech at a wedding hinges on our ability to portray ourselves as passionate, relatable, and collected. But, if we are focused on what we say, and not how we act, we will fail to persuade our audience.
Applied in the boardroom, at the pulpit, or even in conversation, these tenets will help you present better in any situation.
What is an Elevator Pitch?
The Elevator Pitch is a concept inspired from the world of business. Supposed you are in an elevator with a wealthy and influence person that you want to seduce into supporting your project. What do you say?
Well you need to present your idea intelligently, briefly and attractively. That's the Elevator Pitch. By Joelle Hatem
Three business basics to always remember! People don't care about your brand. They care about what you can do for them. Back to basics... Give people what they want, do it consistently and do it better than your competition.
UX, ethnography and possibilities: for Libraries, Museums and ArchivesNed Potter
These slides are adapted from a talk I gave at the Welsh Government's Marketing Awards for the LAM sector, in 2017.
It offers a primer on UX - User Experience - and how ethnography and design might be used in the library, archive and museum worlds to better understand our users. All good marketing starts with audience insight.
The presentation covers the following:
1) An introduction to UX
2) Ethnography, with definitions and examples of 7 ethnographic techniques
3) User-centred design and Design Thinking
4) Examples of UX-led changes made at institutions in the UK and Scandinavia
5) Next Steps - if you'd like to try out UX at your own organisation
So you've built a great product. Everyone is happy, the team is stoked and the only thing left to do is regularly check the bank account to see if it's growing steadily...right?
Of course the reality couldn't be more different if it wanted to. Getting a person to use your product or service is often one of the most difficult challenges any business will face. Especially when those people will need to pay for that product or service.
When you've built a reputation and boast a solid user base things are much smoother, but those first customers...
This SlideShare does not promise success, but hopefully it'll inspire you to close those first deals. Good luck!
www.floown.com
Phil Dillard, Black Ant, @PhilD0210
The objective of the Lean Startup 101 training is to introduce the concepts, terminology and approaches — and, to help organizations overcome resistance accepting the new approach so that exploration and learning can begin. This practical, interactive session will provide a solid foundation for advanced sessions, including the Lean Startup 201 & 301. This training is designed for practitioners in both the enterprise and in startups who are relatively new to the Lean Startup approach or who are seeking a quick refresher. Lean Startup 101 is a perfect way to kick off your week of Lean Startup!
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
8 Ways to Personalize Your App (in Under 30 Minutes)Localytics
Personalization is the future of mobile. If your app doesn't offer a personalized user experience, you're at high risk of user churn. Here we showcase actionable, real-life app examples on how you can make quick optimizations to improve your app's personalization, leading to stronger user engagement and retention.
Love reading comics? You're not the only one. What about these stories about super-beings keep our eyes glued to the pages and our minds salivating for more? We explore in this deck how comic writers use these storytelling techniques and how you can apply it in your presentation.
What's a Growth Stack? And why you should build one. HubSpot
It starts with a single problem. It always does. Maybe you need a few more leads to hit your number this month. Maybe you finally outgrew a system of spreadsheets. Maybe your boss challenged you to get more accurate with your reporting. So, you signed up for a piece of software to help you solve the problem and un-officially started building out your tech stack. Without a strategic approach, adding tool after tool can lead you down a dangerous path. Get more strategic about your software and don't just build any old stack, build a Growth Stack.
35 Inspiring Marketing Quotes to Improve Your ConversionsSwayHub
35 inspiring and actionable marketing quotes from industry greats, chock-full of wisdom to help you improve your conversion rates and optimize your pages more effectively.
24 Awesome Infographic Ideas to Inspire Your Next Beautiful CreationPiktochart
Infographics are awesome, simply because they can capture and hold our attention so well - if done right. The best part is, there are so many great examples out there that we can draw inspiration from. Here are 24 infographic ideas that you can use to create your next beautiful creation.
How would you like to come across during a presentation? Check all that apply — Lazy? Safe? Unimaginative? A rule-follower? If you use a bullet slide, you are checking all those boxes. That's what bullets on a slide sub-consciously say about you. "But," I hear you say, "That's what the template made me do…" or "I had to get these points across, bullets are the best way."
See more at http://makeapowerfulpoint.com/2012/03/18/the-non-bullet-bullet-slide/
The State of Sales & Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B CompaniesMattermark
There’s a lot of information out there for sales and marketing professionals. In fact, as our friend Erik Devaney at Drift.com points out, a quick search of the term “sales and marketing advice” yields more than 90 million results on Google.
What’s more, there are tons of industry influencers who, on a regular basis, share their views on everything from content marketing and sales, to pricing and customer success. It’s a noisy conversation, and for many, a confusing one.
So, how do you make sense of it all?
By focusing on the sales and marketing efforts that actually produce results, not flash-in-the-pan engagement. But finding those results is a little challenging. That’s why we decided to put together our latest report with Drift.com, The State of Sales and Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B Companies.
Using Mattermark data, we were able to identify the fifty high-growth companies in the U.S. and evaluate their marketing activities to understand which practices really moved the needle. In order to make the qualitative portion of our research more tangible, we evaluated each company on the list in light of how they approached content, customer communication, path to purchase, and pricing.
What we and the team at Drift.com discovered was surprising, to say the least.
Design for Startups - Build Better Products, Not More FeaturesVitaly Golomb
Pre-order Vitaly's book "Accelerated Startup – The New Business School" http://golomb.net/book
Apple owes the title of the world’s most valuable company to its genius in design. Good design is never accidental and at the core of a successful product is an elegant solution to a painful problem. Design has earned a very important seat at the table with today’s companies especially in the world of software and apps. In this highly engaging presentation, Vitaly covers principles and business value of good design, design disciplines, how to hire and work with designers, and the design success formula.
Product Market Fit Presentation - May 2023 - Jeff BussgangJeffrey Bussgang
A systematic walk through of the journey to achieve product market fit by Jeff Bussgang, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School
Top 6 Trends you should be paying attention to in 2024.pdfPixeldarts
Join us for an exhilarating journey into the future of design as we unveil 6 Design Trends 2024 You Should Be Paying Attention To. In this presentation, we'll decode the visual language of tomorrow, exploring the trends that will redefine aesthetics, shape industries, and inspire innovation.
To help the curious class stay relevant, we’ve assembled an A-Z glossary of what we predict to be the 100 must-know terms and concepts for 2017.
We hope this cultural crib sheet will help prepare you for the year ahead.
Enjoy!
How NOT to Run Your Company – Lessons LearnedWeekdone.com
The Internet is full of articles on „How to succeed“ and „How to build a great company“ But while following those guidelines we often forget that there's a lot you just can't do.
Learning from your own mistakes is good, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others.
Everyone's favorite billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
Enjoy the slides and a sense of humor is advised.
Product Led Growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy that relies on product usage as the primary driver of acquisition, conversion and expansion. Learn why we're now in the end user era and how your org can adapt.
Learn tactics to rapidly build and test a startup idea with a minimal budget. Step-by-step details to create your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and achieve Product-Market-Channel-Fit. Quickly build, launch, test, gather data, analyze data, iterate, and/ or kill the startup idea.
Have questions? Tweet @Adriana_Herrera or email adriana [at] openbubbles dot com.
8 Ways to Personalize Your App (in Under 30 Minutes)Localytics
Personalization is the future of mobile. If your app doesn't offer a personalized user experience, you're at high risk of user churn. Here we showcase actionable, real-life app examples on how you can make quick optimizations to improve your app's personalization, leading to stronger user engagement and retention.
Love reading comics? You're not the only one. What about these stories about super-beings keep our eyes glued to the pages and our minds salivating for more? We explore in this deck how comic writers use these storytelling techniques and how you can apply it in your presentation.
What's a Growth Stack? And why you should build one. HubSpot
It starts with a single problem. It always does. Maybe you need a few more leads to hit your number this month. Maybe you finally outgrew a system of spreadsheets. Maybe your boss challenged you to get more accurate with your reporting. So, you signed up for a piece of software to help you solve the problem and un-officially started building out your tech stack. Without a strategic approach, adding tool after tool can lead you down a dangerous path. Get more strategic about your software and don't just build any old stack, build a Growth Stack.
35 Inspiring Marketing Quotes to Improve Your ConversionsSwayHub
35 inspiring and actionable marketing quotes from industry greats, chock-full of wisdom to help you improve your conversion rates and optimize your pages more effectively.
24 Awesome Infographic Ideas to Inspire Your Next Beautiful CreationPiktochart
Infographics are awesome, simply because they can capture and hold our attention so well - if done right. The best part is, there are so many great examples out there that we can draw inspiration from. Here are 24 infographic ideas that you can use to create your next beautiful creation.
How would you like to come across during a presentation? Check all that apply — Lazy? Safe? Unimaginative? A rule-follower? If you use a bullet slide, you are checking all those boxes. That's what bullets on a slide sub-consciously say about you. "But," I hear you say, "That's what the template made me do…" or "I had to get these points across, bullets are the best way."
See more at http://makeapowerfulpoint.com/2012/03/18/the-non-bullet-bullet-slide/
The State of Sales & Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B CompaniesMattermark
There’s a lot of information out there for sales and marketing professionals. In fact, as our friend Erik Devaney at Drift.com points out, a quick search of the term “sales and marketing advice” yields more than 90 million results on Google.
What’s more, there are tons of industry influencers who, on a regular basis, share their views on everything from content marketing and sales, to pricing and customer success. It’s a noisy conversation, and for many, a confusing one.
So, how do you make sense of it all?
By focusing on the sales and marketing efforts that actually produce results, not flash-in-the-pan engagement. But finding those results is a little challenging. That’s why we decided to put together our latest report with Drift.com, The State of Sales and Marketing at the 50 Fastest-Growing B2B Companies.
Using Mattermark data, we were able to identify the fifty high-growth companies in the U.S. and evaluate their marketing activities to understand which practices really moved the needle. In order to make the qualitative portion of our research more tangible, we evaluated each company on the list in light of how they approached content, customer communication, path to purchase, and pricing.
What we and the team at Drift.com discovered was surprising, to say the least.
Design for Startups - Build Better Products, Not More FeaturesVitaly Golomb
Pre-order Vitaly's book "Accelerated Startup – The New Business School" http://golomb.net/book
Apple owes the title of the world’s most valuable company to its genius in design. Good design is never accidental and at the core of a successful product is an elegant solution to a painful problem. Design has earned a very important seat at the table with today’s companies especially in the world of software and apps. In this highly engaging presentation, Vitaly covers principles and business value of good design, design disciplines, how to hire and work with designers, and the design success formula.
Product Market Fit Presentation - May 2023 - Jeff BussgangJeffrey Bussgang
A systematic walk through of the journey to achieve product market fit by Jeff Bussgang, general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School
Top 6 Trends you should be paying attention to in 2024.pdfPixeldarts
Join us for an exhilarating journey into the future of design as we unveil 6 Design Trends 2024 You Should Be Paying Attention To. In this presentation, we'll decode the visual language of tomorrow, exploring the trends that will redefine aesthetics, shape industries, and inspire innovation.
To help the curious class stay relevant, we’ve assembled an A-Z glossary of what we predict to be the 100 must-know terms and concepts for 2017.
We hope this cultural crib sheet will help prepare you for the year ahead.
Enjoy!
How NOT to Run Your Company – Lessons LearnedWeekdone.com
The Internet is full of articles on „How to succeed“ and „How to build a great company“ But while following those guidelines we often forget that there's a lot you just can't do.
Learning from your own mistakes is good, but it's even better when you can learn from the mistakes of others.
Everyone's favorite billionaire and Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”
Enjoy the slides and a sense of humor is advised.
Product Led Growth (PLG) is a go-to-market strategy that relies on product usage as the primary driver of acquisition, conversion and expansion. Learn why we're now in the end user era and how your org can adapt.
Learn tactics to rapidly build and test a startup idea with a minimal budget. Step-by-step details to create your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and achieve Product-Market-Channel-Fit. Quickly build, launch, test, gather data, analyze data, iterate, and/ or kill the startup idea.
Have questions? Tweet @Adriana_Herrera or email adriana [at] openbubbles dot com.
This is the version of my talk, Be a Great Product Leader, given at Zynga on Feb 22, 2016. It includes six lessons on product leadership from my time at eBay & LinkedIn.
These are the slides from a talk given on March 4, 2012 at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. It summarizes ten key lessons in being a great product leader from over a decade of experience in consumer software.
It is based on a lecture given on the same topic on August 31, 2011 at LinkedIn.
Software Development Better, Faster, Stronger with Feature PrioritizationMentorMate
A guide to save time and align your stakeholders
How can a group of stakeholders with different priorities agree which features of a product are the most important? The answer is feature prioritization.
Presentation given at the Digital Workplace Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on May 2nd, 2018 outlining the "secret sauce" in a successful marketing strategy, whether that of an organizational or an individual, and focusing on building a brand.
Presented at the Digital Workplace Conference Australia, held in Melbourne AU on August 15th and 16th, 2018. This presentation outlines the evolution that has happened in marketing, and the components that are necessary for successful brand building and digital marketing.
Uniting product development, business strategy, and agile software practices.
Covers thinking about product development wholistically from a customer-first perspective. Suggests good principles for established companies and boostrappers.
INNOVATION ROOTS | Webinar | Three Secrets of Agile Leaders | Peter StevensInnovation Roots
Overview:
Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets, and three tips to apply agility to your life and work and unlock your potential as an executive or a manager.
Learning Objectives:
1. Connect agility at the personal, the team and the organizational level
2. Experience how the same challenges that led to poor performance in software development 30 years ago still plague the management of most organizations today.
3. Learn 3 simple techniques to unlock the potential of management.
4. Learn the key concepts and principles of Personal Agility
Bundledarrows170 bit.ly/stanfordstartupscamp370
bit.ly/foundersguide415z
To identify the best amateur artisans savants, OAC built sophisticated technology to rate the skill of each market manager, using techniques employed by the most sophisticated evaluators of market managers.
The "Genesis: Idea Stage" ebook explains the phase where the journey starts for every startup: the idea stage. This eBook is the first part of the "Startup Master Class" series covering the idea, problem/solution fit, product/market fit and scaling stages.
Similar to Be A Great Product Leader (Opower 2014) (20)
Stanford CS 007-03 (2022): Personal Finance for Engineers / CompensationAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 3rd session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 11, 2022. This seminar covers compensation, equity & comparing offers.
Stanford CS 007-02 (2022): Personal Finance for Engineers / Behavioral FinanceAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 2nd session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers," given on October 4, 2022. This seminar covers the topic of Behavioral Finance.
Stanford CS 007-01 (2022): Personal Finance for Engineers / IntroductionAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 1st session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on September 27, 2022. This seminar covers a survey of the students enrolled in the course, with an overview of the topics to be covered over the course of the series.
Stanford CS 007-10 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / Additional Topics...Adam Nash
These are the slides from the 10th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" offered on December 7, 2021. This seminar covers student requested additional topics for the course, including bitcoin / cryptocurrency, derivatives, futures, options, private equity & venture capital.
Stanford CS 007-09 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / Real EstateAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 9th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" offered on November 30, 2021. This seminar covers real estate and related financial decisions: buying, renting, rent vs. buy, real estate investment, rental properties & tax advantages.
Stanford CS 007-08 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / Financial Plannin...Adam Nash
These are the slides from the 8th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" offered on November 16, 2021. This seminar covers financial planning, financial goals, couples & life insurance.
Stanford CS 007-07 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / InvestingAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 7th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on November 9, 2021. This seminar covers compounding, types of investments, diversification, how to invest, and the four keys to good investing (all boring).
Stanford CS 007-06 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / DebtAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 6th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" on October 26, 2021. This seminar focuses on compounding, mortgages, auto loans, student loans, credit cards and credit scores.
Stanford CS 007-05 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / Assets & Net WorthAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 5th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" taught on October 19, 2021. This seminar focuses on liquidity, emergency funds, assets & liabilities, and net worth.
Stanford CS 007-04 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / Savings & BudgetsAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 4th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 12, 2021. This seminar covers savings rates, income & expenses & budgeting.
Stanford CS 007-2 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / Behavioral FinanceAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 2nd session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers," given on September 28, 2021. This seminar covers the topic of Behavioral Finance.
Stanford CS 007-01 (2021): Personal Finance for Engineers / IntroductionAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 1st session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on September 21, 2021. This seminar covers a survey of the students enrolled in the course, with an overview of the topics to be covered over the course of the series.
Stanford CS 007-10 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / Additional Topics...Adam Nash
These are the slides from the 10th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" offered in November 2020. This seminar covers student requested additional topics for the course, including bitcoin / cryptocurrency, derivatives, futures, options, private equity & venture capital.
Stanford CS 007-09 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / Real EstateAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 9th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" offered in November 2020. This seminar covers real estate and related financial decisions: buying, renting, rent vs. buy, real estate investment, rental properties & tax advantages.
Stanford CS 007-08 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / Financial Plannin...Adam Nash
These are the slides from the 8th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" offered on November 3, 2020. This seminar covers financial planning, financial goals, couples & life insurance.
Stanford CS 007-07 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / InvestingAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 7th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on October 27, 2020. This seminar covers compounding, types of investments, diversification, how to invest, and the four keys to good investing (all boring).
Stanford CS 007-06 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / DebtAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 6th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar focuses on compounding, mortgages, auto loans, student loans, credit cards and credit scores.
Stanford CS 007-05 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / Assets & Net WorthAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 5th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar focuses on liquidity, emergency funds, assets & liabilities, and net worth.
Stanford CS 007-2 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / Behavioral FinanceAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 2nd session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers," given on September 22, 2020. This seminar covers the topic of Behavioral Finance.
Stanford CS 007-01 (2020): Personal Finance for Engineers / IntroductionAdam Nash
These are the slides from the 1st session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" given on September 15, 2020. This seminar covers a survey of the students enrolled in the course, with an overview of the topics to be covered over the course of the series.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Dive into the innovative world of smart garages with our insightful presentation, "Exploring the Future of Smart Garages." This comprehensive guide covers the latest advancements in garage technology, including automated systems, smart security features, energy efficiency solutions, and seamless integration with smart home ecosystems. Learn how these technologies are transforming traditional garages into high-tech, efficient spaces that enhance convenience, safety, and sustainability.
Ideal for homeowners, tech enthusiasts, and industry professionals, this presentation provides valuable insights into the trends, benefits, and future developments in smart garage technology. Stay ahead of the curve with our expert analysis and practical tips on implementing smart garage solutions.
3. Full Circle:
World-Class Product
Original meeting with Reid Hoffman turned in a four
hour conversation on what world class product
meant in a Web 2.0 world (circa 2007).
Most people start or join new companies because
they think “we can do it better this time”. They
come to build a company.
These are the top lessons I’ve personally gained
over the past two decades about product
management for modern consumer software.
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4. What Do We Demand of
Product Managers?
1
Strategy
How do we win the game, and how do we keep
score?
Prioritization
What are the steps from here to there, and what
order do we do them in?
Execution
For this phase, what’s the list of what has to get
done, and are we on track?
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5. Product: Results Matter
2
In the end, we judge product managers by whether
they “win games”
The role itself can give limited authority. Like a new
coach, the team will let you define the plays initially.
But in the end, you have to show the team wins.
Product leaders don’t play the game, but they are
judged by the record of their products.
They cover any gaps. No excuses.
Responsibility, often without authority
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6. Put People Directly on
High Priority Goals
3
This may sound obvious, but it continues to be very rare in
practice. Diffuse responsibility is a killer.
It’s an expensive solution, but when you’ve identified the
few goals that matter, it’s exactly the right answer.
A small, cross-functional team, free to execute with clear,
direct goals and authority is an incredibly powerful force.
Example: Growth
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7. Prioritization: Three
Buckets
4
Metrics Movers
These pay the bills. In the end, software that doesn’t
justify itself will lose the ability to fund itself.
Customer Requests
If you don’t listen to customers, they will lose faith in
you and eventually hate you.
Delight
If you don’t delight customers, you won’t inspire
passion and loyalty in your users.
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8. Can’t I Have All Three?
4
It’s not impossible, but it’s extremely rare.
Very often, metrics movers are not requested or
delightful.
Very often, customer requests will not move your
metrics or delight people.
Very often, delight features will not move your
metrics, and by definition, are not requested.
Great products, however, combine all three. In agile
processes, releases intersperse all three regularly.
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9. Understanding Virality
5
One of the key insights of our growth strategy from 2008.
Extensible to literally all engagement features.
Key measure used by applications on social platforms. This is
an extremely useful frame.
Two questions: what features let members touch non
members? How does a new customer today lead to a new
customer tomorrow?
At the heart of virality is an exponential based on branching
factor and time. In an m^n equation, m is the branching
factor, n is the cycles in a time period.
Rabbits make lots of rabbits not because of big litters, but
because they breed frequently. “n” matters more than “m”.
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10. Engagement Can Be
Measured
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Believe it or not, this issue has been hotly debated
Key metrics include:
• MAU / Total User Base
• DAU / MAU
• Actions / DAU
Don’t be afraid to learn from startups and/or
competitors. You are not always a unique snowflake.
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11. Find the Heat
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There are two sides to boosting engagement: lowering the
friction of reaching out, and increasing the desire to
engage.
It’s easy to focus on the first and ignore the second, but
social software depends on capturing the real nuances of
human interaction.
Heat is a placeholder term for emotions that drive action,
both positive and negative. Emotion. Passion. Desire.
Ask yourself the hard questions of what strong emotions
drive the actions in your products.
Examples: Apply with LinkedIn
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12. Simple is Hard
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For some reason, people are talking a lot about
Steve Jobs these days. Inevitably this concept
comes up.
It’s true in design, it’s true in metrics, it’s true in
prioritization, and it’s true in strategy.
What’s the one thing you want the user to do?
What’s the fundamental use case your feature
addresses for users?
Example: Mobile First design
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13. Einstein’s Razor
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Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler
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Simplicity is not an absolute ideal.
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14. Final Thoughts
We can be our own harshest critics. In the mirror
we see every flaw, every mistake, every
imperfection.
These are the very early years. Things that seem
small now can and will be huge in 5 years. Each of
you can and will have a profound impact on that
future.
Behavior matters. Values matter.
Be a Great Product Leader.
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