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Top-down vs. Bottom-up product development

Jan 25, 2011 Dwipal
We were recently discussing a new feature for my new startup TheIceBreak that involves building functionality that has never been done before. In order to design it, we relied on a few assumptions that are difficult to validate without actually building the product. This reminded me of the fundamental differences between dogfood-style (bottom-up) vs vision driven (top-down) product development, …
Product ManagementBusiness StrategyDesign

Presentation Zen

Jan 6, 2011 Dwipal
Just finished reading the book ‘Presentation Zen’ by Garr Reynolds. Its a really good book if you want to do an actual presentation, when you are the speaker on a podium and everyone else is listening. The concepts in this book revolve strongly around keeping the ‘deck’ as simple as possible with heavy use of images, etc. The author also suggests that instead of adding more details on the …
Public SpeakingDesignCommunication

Web 2.0 Logos

Feb 7, 2006 Dwipal
Web 2.0 Logos
LOGO2.0_2 Originally uploaded by Stabilo Boss. Found this on flickr, has logos of all the great Web 2.0 companies. (No, yahoo, ebay, google etc. are not on it and yes, YouTube is there in the list.). In case you are wondering where these compnies are.. someone has done a great job using google maps. http://www.fourio.com/web20map/ Comments alprazolam online (March 12, 2007): We are the …
Web 2.0Tech HistoryDesign

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