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Inside Google Ventures' Open Source Product Design Process

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-it-started dept.

First time accepted submitter smaxp writes "Google Ventures is blazing a new trail for venture investors, delivering advice and services to its portfolio companies with in-house teams of experts in the fields of design, marketing, recruiting and engineering. I had a fascinating discussion with Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp about how he and his four design partners help Google Ventures portfolio companies design better products and better businesses."

4 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. high-tech! by schneidafunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently the trick is to have post-it notes and colored stickers, based on the images in the articles

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  2. Generic business plan by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The generic business plan of Google Ventures companies, based on their privacy policies, seems to be

    • Give away service for cheap or free
    • Ram anal probe up user's ass and collect data
    • Spam with ads.

    Even their thermostat phones home and sends data about when you're home to a server.

    1. Re:Generic business plan by AndyAndyAndyAndy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Modded "insightful" but not really sure what the insight is. It's a pretty established business plan for data companies. It smells like a criticism with the anal probe hyperbole, but not really sure what the point is.

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    2. Re:Generic business plan by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

      Google: putting the 'anal' in 'analysis' since 1998.

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