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Nail it before you scale it: how to think about product-market fit
Product In Practice, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 5/25/21 Product In Practice, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 5/25/21

Nail it before you scale it: how to think about product-market fit

Some tips to think about when looking for product-market fit and avoid creating shiny products that nobody will use.

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Hemnet is a public company: the beginning of a new journey
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 4/27/21 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 4/27/21

Hemnet is a public company: the beginning of a new journey

To move is to grow. As Hemnet becomes a public company, a new journey begins.

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Quantity>Quality: a case for broadening your ideas and do not obsess with one
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 4/7/21 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 4/7/21

Quantity>Quality: a case for broadening your ideas and do not obsess with one

In product development is not about quantity or quality, is it about embracing that quantity will bring the quality of ideas you need.

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Why you shouldn’t dot voting to decide what to work on
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 2/23/21 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 2/23/21

Why you shouldn’t dot voting to decide what to work on

Dot voting is still great for some purposes, but not for prioritizing an idea to pursue. This is why you should consider stopping using it unless you are ready to accept that some dots are more equals than others.

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Hemnet product development book club - fall/winter 2020
Books reviews, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 1/26/21 Books reviews, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 1/26/21

Hemnet product development book club - fall/winter 2020

At Hemnet we have a product development book club to talk about product development. This is what we have been reading this fall.

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Product strategy: What to think about when thinking about product strategy
Product In Practice, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 1/12/21 Product In Practice, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 1/12/21

Product strategy: What to think about when thinking about product strategy

Product strategy should give you directions and the ability to zoom out. In the same way that you are able to get out of the forest by following the path, even if the only thing you see in front of your nose is a gigantic tree.

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Let’s talk about impostor syndrome
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 12/21/20 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 12/21/20

Let’s talk about impostor syndrome

Like many other product people, I am often affected by impostor syndrome. While reading Empowered, the latest book by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones, I started to think about how I can actually act on it.

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4 thoughts about innovation
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 12/16/20 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 12/16/20

4 thoughts about innovation

4 spot-on ideas to challenge our capability of innovating every day.

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How we transformed Hemnet product development to make it the engine of our growth
Product Development, Product In Practice Francesca Cortesi 12/8/20 Product Development, Product In Practice Francesca Cortesi 12/8/20

How we transformed Hemnet product development to make it the engine of our growth

Q4 2020 marks one year since we started to work with a new product development process at Hemnet. I took some time to reflect on what I believe are some of the ingredients of our success.

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Hemnet Live - make a difference through product
Product In Practice, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 11/21/20 Product In Practice, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 11/21/20

Hemnet Live - make a difference through product

During these second-wave-of-pandemic days, I am thinking back at the mission-driven development we did with Hemnet Live. This was our way to contribute and take responsibility in the midst of a really difficult situation.

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Is finding problems to solve really the most important thing a product team can do?
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 10/2/20 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 10/2/20

Is finding problems to solve really the most important thing a product team can do?

During one of our Hemnet book club sessions, we discussed Marty Cagan’s article on problem space vs solution space. The discussion made me really think: are PMs and product teams focusing so much on problems that they are losing interest in finding the best solution for the customers?

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Hemnet Product Development book club - spring 2020
Books reviews, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 7/16/20 Books reviews, Product Development Francesca Cortesi 7/16/20

Hemnet Product Development book club - spring 2020

At Hemnet we have a product development book club where we read a book on a product development topic and meet weekly to discuss how the subject applies to our workplace. This is what we have been reading this spring.

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My product learnings from Amazon
Product Development Francesca Cortesi 6/6/20 Product Development Francesca Cortesi 6/6/20

My product learnings from Amazon

Jeff Bezos´s letters to shareholders reveal patterns beyond some widely successful products

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Adapting product development to remote ways of working - World Product Day 2020
Product Development, Talks & Interviews Francesca Cortesi 5/27/20 Product Development, Talks & Interviews Francesca Cortesi 5/27/20

Adapting product development to remote ways of working - World Product Day 2020

I participated in the world product day organized by Mind the Product to talk about how we adapted Hemnet product development to covid-19.

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