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Top-down vs. Bottom-up product development

Jan 25, 2011
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, …
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