Accelerate time to market

Take advantage of opportunities to get your product into new users’ hands quickly.

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Research & Strategic Insights Ask Me Anything Webinar

thoughtbot product strategy leaders discuss how to use research & validation to make the product best decisions and outline a concrete action plan.

Dawn Delatte, Managing Director and Jordyn Bonds, Director of Product Strategy

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Validation: The best tool to de-risk and inspire

Why validating your identified need and proposed product solution will save you time, money, and sleepless nights.

Director of Product Strategy, Jordyn Bonds

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Case Study

Delivering high-quality online education across West Asia & North Africa

Helping an online learning platform in the MENA region to deliver a unique and engaging student experience

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Product Management Ask Me Anything - Event recap

Summarizing all the gems shared by our Product Management team on product strategy and great teamwork.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Our strategy for B2C founders during the cost of living crisis

Based on nearly 20 years of experience, thoughtbot’s suggestions for successful B2C product strategy during an economic downturn.

Kirsten Hurley, Managing Director, Launchpad II team

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thoughtbot + Forecastr product strategy & financial guidance for Founders

Recapping our joint event where we share tips to solidify your product strategy and financial readiness to WOW investors.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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How to decide if Jamstack is the right choice for your MVP

Using Jamstack to build initial MVPs can improve product scalability, performance, and flexibility to use third party APIs.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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Operational toolkit for startups—our partner, Startup Stack

thoughtbot supports startups of every stage, size, and industry with their product strategy, design, and development goals and as a part of our Startup Stack Perk will be extending a discount and a lot of great resources.

Liz Dombroski, Sales Enablement & Bus Dev Manager at thoughtbot

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Case Study

Scaling and maintaining a vaccine management app for pandemic activity

With unexpected rapid adoption of their PrepMod vaccine solution caused by the pandemic, MSPP credited thoughtbot with saving their business with quick development scaling support

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Our takeaways from ProductCon 2022

Every year, a handful of thoughtbotters attended the virtual ProductCon event and the team does a tremendous job making it effective despite it being 100% remote. We share some of our observations and loves from this February's event.

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Why Your Prototype Isn't Securing Investment

If you’re serious about raising money, a prototype is an important part of telling your story, but only if your prototype is high quality and based upon validation, feature prioritization, and strong development strategy. Here Associate Director Kelly Gebo shares some best practices we commonly bring to founders to help build a prototype that can truly raise investment.

Kelly Gebo, Associate Director at thoughtbot

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How to launch a product in 8 weeks

Are you planning to launch a new web or mobile product in 2020? Tune in as thoughtbot's Founder and COO Chad Pytel dives into thoughtbot's playbook that has guided the design, development, and launch of hundreds of successful quality products.

Chad Pytel, Founder and COO, thoughtbot

How to stay Agile while Building HIPAA Compliant Products Workshop

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How to Stay Agile while Building Compliant Health Tech Projects

During this workshop, we’ll dive into thoughtbot’s best practices for digital product development, and the unique challenges and considerations for these processes when compliance and privacy concerns are involved.

Steph Viccari, Development Lead at thoughtbot

Case Study

Developing a healthcare credentialing software, brand, and technical team in just 7 weeks

Silversheet had 3 main credentialing pain points they wished to solve for: identifying which documents were required, managing large amounts of paperwork, and making sure documents were up to date.

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Velocity vs. Quality - How do developers and founders meet in the middle?

Finding the right balance between writing quality software and shipping features rapidly can be difficult. Read the best practices for shipping quality software that users will love.

Tom Wey, Senior Developer, thoughtbot

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Your First Technology Decisions

Boston Development Director Chris Toomey discusses what options and tradeoffs exist when making early and foundational development decisions, so you can get your software in front of real users as quickly as possible

Chris Toomey, Development Director at thoughtbot

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Delivering Features Faster

Get the most velocity from your product team as it transitions from prototyping and validation to growth.

Kane Baccigalupi, Development Director, thoughtbot

Podcast

Have a Slide for That

Alec Stern, startup founder, entrepreneur, mentor, investor, and advisor, discusses founding Constant Contact, the early days of SaaS, the importance and utilization of 'channels', and pursuing customer feedback.