The Practical Innovator's Guide to Customer-Centric Growth

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Is Your Agile Backlog a Roadmap to Nowhere?
User stories are great for execution but terrible for strategy. Discover the two-engine model that connects development to validated customer needs.
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Mike Boysen
4:32
JTBD is Dead (As You Know It): The New AI-Powered Playbook
Stop analyzing yesterday's market. Learn how AI-driven simulations uncover future opportunities in hours, not months
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Mike Boysen
2
5:24
The New Competitive Moat: Decoupling Your Industry with AI
Listen now | How to move beyond product improvements and build a systemic advantage by redesigning your entire value chain around your customer's true…
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Mike Boysen
4:20
The End of Cloud Storage as You Know It: Why SaaS is Vulnerable & What's Next
Listen now | From Passive Storage to Intelligent Data Orchestration: Unlocking True Collaboration & Business Outcomes with JTBD
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Mike Boysen
8:33
The 3 "Pre-Concept" Tests: A JTBD Framework for De-Risking Your Next Big Idea
A founder's guide to the "Abstraction Ladder" and future-back thinking
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Mike Boysen
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5:40

June 2025

Quick, Dirty, and Accurate (?) Idea Validation
A potential path to constructive criticism of Founder ideas
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Mike Boysen
Jobs-to-be-Done: The Ultimate Guide to Tech Strategy
How to apply the JTBD framework to build a powerful, customer-focused roadmap.
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Mike Boysen
7:30
The $126 Billion Heist: A Practical Plan to Abolish Credit Card Fees for Good
Inside the novel, stablecoin-based strategy to bypass Visa and Mastercard for good
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Mike Boysen
6:25
The Twin Tsunamis: Why AI is Forcing the Great Unbundling of Education
Beyond the skills gap lies a bigger threat. How to survive and thrive when the "job" is no longer the goal
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Mike Boysen
11:07
Is Your Next Computer Invisible? The Rise of Outcome-Driven AI Computing
Beyond screens and apps: How AI is elevating the level of abstraction, anticipating your needs, and getting your jobs done without you even noticing
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Mike Boysen
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7:07
The Post-Supermarket Economy: The Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity in Food
It's not about delivery. A fundamental dietary shift is creating the single greatest investment opportunity in the food supply chain in a century.
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Mike Boysen
5:39
Why "Make Something People Want" is Bad Advice
Introducing "The Progress Foundry," a venture model that replaces the lottery with a system.
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Mike Boysen
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8:49
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