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One thing I do look back on fondly was how incredibly focused we were. Resources and time were so tight that you could feel the weight of all the things you weren’t working on. You had real conviction that the thing you were doing was the most important thing.
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the co... See more
To pick a somewhat trivial example, at fireside chats with Mark (the predecessor to the co... See more
Andrew Bosworth • Focus
“People are always going to ask you to do more. If you follow them blindly, you can end up being in a different market. Your product can have more features and a bigger footprint and more complexity than it originally had — and lose the focus that made it so valuable in the first place,” says Basecamp product manager Ryan Singer.
Martin Eriksson • Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
The only enduring value is in identifying hard problems that face customers you understand, solving that problem better than anyone else, and staying obsessed with serving that customer forever.
Andrew Rea • What I'm building next
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If you want to build a product that millions (or hundreds of millions) of people can use, you must defy this tendency to prioritize the core product at the expense of the “first mile.”
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
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Realize that, when you optimize for one thing, it comes at the expense of something else. So, decide what's most important to you and go with that.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
When the balance skews towards Compete , it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The vision for the future devolves into questions like, "what if we had more users?" and "what if we just did more stuff?" This mindset drives products to become big, complex messes of features, leaving you wondering, "who asked for all this?" You end up wit
... See moreGeorge Kedenburg III • The Cost of Craft
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It is really hard to keep things simple, especially if you have a product that people really like. When you do things well, people will always ask you to do more. Your features will multiply and expand as you try to make them happy. Soon, new competitors will emerge that will tempt you to stretch your product in new directions. The more you say yes
... See moreGeorge Kedenburg III • The Cost of Craft
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