The UK Govt has killed the “get back to work” message and left it up to employers to decide for themselves. This is the greatest opportunity in history for businesses to improve employee productivity, hiring and retention. Thread below 🧵 👇🏾

I follow this simple 5 step process to help startups launch products people love.

To influence your team, your leaders, or customers, start with effective storytelling - try this framework and see how you get on.

Many teams struggle to recruit enough customers to validate their value prop. Make a channel test part of your customer dev process and learn how to access your customers.

I'm doing Switch interviews all day today. I find it so uncomfortable to focus so heavily on the top of the funnel (Switch), vs middle where product people normally focus. Such a great tool. #jtbd

Want to be part of a fun team while doing work that is at the forefront of battery diagnostics technology?  We’re hiring a project manager! rejouleenergy.com/careers #Hiring #projectmanager #energystorage #battery #rejouligans #cleantechjobs

Most people and product teams have a bias towards over-validating either value or technology. Which side do you fall on?

1/ Why your startup can’t “Just Do It” or “Think Different.” Startup marketing needs to play by different rules. A Tweetstorm your agency might not like. 👇🏼

I broke down the value props of Uber, Calendly and Hubspot to identify the main job they help their users achieve. See a 5 min vid here bit.ly/3wyNrip

It's been so much fun taking 20 startups through courses about Finding Value and Finding Fit. More deep-dive workshops coming in August!

I spend too much time fiddling with Airtable and faffing with Figma. What do you do that stops you from finding your focus?

We’re over the moon to announce that we’ve raised an extra £6 million led by NFX, with @PeteFlint joining our board! Catch the full story in City A.M. - thanks Farah Ghouri for the fantastic feature! 👇cityam.com/collective-rai…

Nick Black has written a brilliant hand #book for founders who need to hire the right #productmanager, the first time. As an ex recruiter I wish I had read this 10 years ago! guides.nickblack.us/hiring-product…

Utterly stunned to hear farmdrop is shutting down. What went wrong? No lack of demand it seems. Biz model wouldn’t scale?

Big news in the product world today. Pendo bought Mind the Product. Huge shout out to Martin Eriksson @James_Mayes Janna Bastow simplybastow.bsky.social Simon Cast @emilytate and the rest of the MTP crew. Thank you for all that you've done for the product community. I can't wait to see what's next.

"In software, intellectual property (IP) is not typically an effective strategy. Software moves too quickly and the patents don’t really stick." Truth from James Currier

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