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June 23, 2022

Free trial vs. freemium: Which product-led growth tactic is right for you? ‍

Have you ever set up a free trial to test drive a product before you bought it? We bet you have (and you might have even forgotten to cancel it after the week was up – oops).

In our workshop Driving Product-Led Growth, industry guru Wes Bush teaches you to use “try before you buy” tactics – like free trials, freemium, and demo modes – to capture customers long before they swipe their credit card.

Here, with Wes’ help, we share an easy-to-use framework for picking the tactic that’s right for your business.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
7 mins
For students
Product
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June 15, 2022

3 steps to uncover your real competitors (hint: they may not be who you think)

April Dunford is a product positioning expert who helps executives zero in on the real competitive alternatives to their product.

In this post, we’ll share some of her tips.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
3 mins
For students
Product positioning
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May 26, 2022

4 proven business strategies from NYU Stern Prof. Scott Galloway

Growing a business can be rough. Even after you’ve drafted a masterful business plan and secured enough capital to see it to fruition, you’re still facing an uphill battle.

In fact, 65 percent of businesses fail within their first 10 years.

So how do you beat the odds? You can start by leveraging these four winning concepts NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway lays out in his upcoming Business Strategy Sprint.

We’ll break them down.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
3 mins
For students
business
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May 18, 2022

How I use Product Strategy frameworks to win client business

How do you make your product stand out in a sea of competitors? Product Strategy alum Justin Lee shares his approach.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
3 min
For students
Product
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April 9, 2025

AI agents are cool, but not for the reasons you’ve heard

You’ve seen articles and flashy demos and tons of promises about the imminent future of agents. But how much of that is actually possible and how much is hype? Lutra AI co-founder and CEO, Jiquan Ngiam sat down with us to suss it out.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For students
AI
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June 16, 2025

AI hallucinations aren’t a big deal

It’s hard not to hear that AI hallucinates and not have a few alarm bells go off. But ‘hallucinations’ is a loaded word. Machine & Partners’ Edmundo Ortega is back to explain why they’re nothing to worry about.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For students
AI
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October 9, 2025

Squishy vs. hard ROI: Why leaders need both

One of the hardest parts of AI ROI is figuring out how to report qualitative wins to execs who want quantitative reports. At our AI:ROI Conference, Michael Domanic shared the framework for approaching these two disparate kinds of ROI.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For companies
AI
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September 5, 2025

AI’s progress may be holding your team back

On paper, the rapid release of new AI models and features looks like a win for knowledge workers. In reality, teams are drowning in AI overwhelm. Here’s how leaders can help them scale an ever-steeper learning curve.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For companies
AI

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