2024/05/15

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Innovation excellence and product development conference

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John Schmitz Pratt and Whitney

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No plan survives contact with the real world

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Proponent for doing retrospectives

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Fonz Morris Netflix

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Design lead on monetization team

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Business design

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Business strategy

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Innovation

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Design thinking

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Kind of like System Design

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Focus on important metrics

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Could use more examples of actual metrics that can be misleading

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Harsh Wardham Google

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Proponent for thinking about possible futures in a probabilistic way

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Bayesian updating

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William Gibson

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The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

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Don’t bet on one future

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The new tech, more “speaker” types have shared their LinkedIn QR codes at the end of their presentations

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Ben Shown Blink UX on the art of crafting a compelling product north star

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located in Inman Square

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Product North Star

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As concept car

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High fidelity

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Grand vision

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As manifesto

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Light weight

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As Trojan horse

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Perfect one element to inspire continuation

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Golden path

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Pick one user story

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Backcasting

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Use your Product North Star and derive steps to achieve it

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Startups vs companies

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Founders can bring energy and inspiration to companies that are often feeling stagnant growth or declining

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Easy to get burned by optimism in startups

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13:57

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Visible Hands Boston application

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What would be most valuable to you in your Visible Hands Experience? What specifically do you hope or expect for Visible Hands to help you Achieve?

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community of support

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guidance on fundraising

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product market fit

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Describe your Company in a couple of sentences.

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What is the Problem that you are most Passionate about solving? Why are you the Right Person to solve this Problem? What unique Insight, Experience, or Networks do you bring to the table?

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Improving our experiences of public spaces and third places

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I am a technology person with a deep passion and exposure to problems of urban design

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Please describe your Ideal Customer and how your Company is solving a Core Problem/Need they have.

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three possibilities

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art organizations / museums

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cities

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travelers / residents

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How have you built your Product (or how are you planning to build it out)?

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full stack (iOS, firebase)

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Tell us about a situation where you were able to make progress despite resource constraints. What was the situation and how did you get creative?

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Please share any other relevant details around the progress you have made so far with your idea(s) or company that you haven’t yet mentioned. What research have you done? Have you gained any traction? Built your prototype? Gotten your first users? Hired team members?

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progress on the underlying tech

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understanding how other companies are using the technology

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on the ground testing

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growing network of 3D artists to test product market fit

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initial downloads

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hired contractors

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