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Jenny Lynn-Garner's avatar

Great topics. While studying failures can be instructive, so too studying successes - so how about "successful product launches" as a potential topic as well? I'd love to know if there are any consistent elements of successful launches.

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Ibrahim Bashir's avatar

actually did that as a First Round Review article a couple of years back https://firstround.com/review/my-launch-lessons-from-37-minutes-in-an-amazon-war-room/

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Jenny Lynn-Garner's avatar

Thanks so much! I'm new here and that is so helpful. Can't wait to check this out.

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Amal Khan's avatar

How to balance parenthood and increasingly intense work place culture.

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Joe Ballou's avatar

Strat vs roadmap

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Ibrahim Bashir's avatar

I'm thinking to this via an actual product teardown vs. abstract framework

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Joe Ballou's avatar

Makes sense, and interested in your write up. Also curious about Deloitte topic... particularly what you might say about what lessons or tools have proved useful and transferable in product roles.

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Ibrahim Bashir's avatar

I have a draft going on that - tl;dr totally transferable IMO and this Steve Jobs video (his take on consulting) I ran across is something I'm going to dissect in that post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp6_3UQLi2Y

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Chris Chan's avatar

The biggest failures yield the biggest learnings, so โ€œscrewing up product launchesโ€!

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Ibrahim Bashir's avatar

I did the same poll on LinkedIn and this was the #1 vote there too ๐Ÿค”

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