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Slides of Communitech Presentation on Overcoming the Tech vs. Business Type Divide

As previously announced, I was at Communitech last Friday to talk about the key challenges to launching blockbuster tech products with their Product Manager group. I decided to hone in on the divide between Techies and Biz types, as this has consistently been one of the main hurdles I saw at the ventures I work with. I was a little worried as at first I expected possible controversies over some of the points I brought up, but to my surprise this resonated well and strongly with most people in the room. About half the room were techies and the other biz types, so the distribution was spread nicely in the middle. There were no punch exchanges, mud fights or even light food fights.

I posted my presentation on Slideshare, so you can find it below. I had two hours at Communitech so this is quite a long deck of 40 ...

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