Product thinking<\/strong>: Typically media startups have been stuck in \u201cpost thinking,\u201d as in a blog post, a story post, etc. In a multi-platform environment, product-led thinking that continually tweaks to keep the brand fresh in digital becomes the driving force. Iterate, test and build \u2014 a thinking in mainstream consumer startups, has to come to media startups as well. Hire people who get it\u2026<\/p>\nCuration thinking:<\/strong> This is another critical hiring and company culture parameter. No media startup can survive doing just original content, it has to be a mix, of original, of curated or aggregated, of licensed if that is an option. It means hiring people who have the ability to mix content types, and not be moral about it. You\u2019ll be surprised at how many journalists look down upon curation. In a small team, curation thinking also means learning to do a lot more with a lot less\u2026<\/p>\nAgile development,<\/strong> a methodology that came out of the software world, is increasingly being implemented across other parts of companies as well, especially as a buzzword by marketers. For a media startup, agile would translate into building quick, fast and dirty, with few resources, whether it is edit, business, sales, and of course tech development. That means a cross-functional product manager who is almost a junior COO, working with founders to keep everything running and launching on time, amidst the requisite amount of chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Molto bella questa riflessione comune sul Tumblr di Luca Alagna. Qualche suggerimento sulle persone giuste da assumere, capaci di essere creativi – con stile e pazienza – nonostante l’ambiente di lavoro totalmente volatile, agile, fin troppo, quasi al punto di essere vago, incomprensibile, intangibile. Ma sempre e comunque affascinante perch\u00e8 in moto costante. Product thinking: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilmonella.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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