summer startup academy session 4 with nick park from autotrader.com
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Session 4 of the Summer Startup Academy has come and gone – but not without some great insight and conversation. In this presentation, Nick Park, director of product innovation at Autotrader.com, offered his top 10 pieces of advice on how to be a team player and a leader at the same time. Biggest takeaway: Ditch the powerpoints and find the common ground with your potential buyer.TRANSCRIPT
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Lessons LearnedNick Park, AutoTrader.com
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part 1(MIS)adventures in
product management
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1: ThE value of project managementIn which we realize that we can’t manage ourselves
as well as we thought
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2: the value of designIn which a cliché turns out to be really true
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3: The uninstallable appIn which we spend 8 hours at a client site and get
nowhere
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4: The disagreement on terms
In which you can’t see each other’s perspective
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5: the reality distortion fieldIn which a product leader perceives the world a
little differently
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part 2How to win
customers and influence people
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6: the listener and the expertIn which you successfully master both
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7: the avoidance of a deckIn which you respect the intelligence of your
customer
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8: THE INDUSTRY guruIn which the government says
“Oh! That’s what our regulation means!”
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9: data, data, dataIn which inflexible minds flex
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10: Try, try and try againIn which an idea finally finds its time
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