Valentine Quadrat

Head of Content @ Curated. Ex-National Geographic. Yale School of Management. Harvard alum.

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“Skiing is so much more than just a sport to me...it’s a way of life”. Check out this awesome interview with Pro Athlete Tatum Monod on @curated’s Expert Journal: https://t.co/RaOjNyK2vM

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I love everything about how @beekmank captures her own magical experience shopping @CuratedInAction.
Press for this company is amazing as near every article stems from an author's authentic experience. @outsidemagazine https://t.co/Kilm7KptT7

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This past December I started working for an early-stage #startup in #SiliconValley. If you’re interested in what making this transition was like for me, check out this post I’ve written.
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“Be remarkable.
Be generous.
Create art.
Make judgment calls.
Connect people and ideas.”
- Linchpin by Seth Godin

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“Steve [Jobs] and I spent a lot of time on the packaging. I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theatre, it can create a story.” - Walter Isaacson, Apple

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“A product team has to have a clear and ongoing sense of evolving customer needs. It’s similar to the way people say effective leaders must always ‘walk the factory floor’.” https://t.co/BkKoPcdYu5

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“Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again, until a flawed story finds its throughline or a hollow character finds its soul.” - Ed Catmull

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"Be observant about how a user interacts with your product. When a user behaves against your expectations, they might just be leading you toward what they find most lovable." https://t.co/XUE0tTnhNJ

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On George Lucas’s management strategy: “Just as Yoda said things like, ‘Do, or do not. There is no try,’ George had a fondness for folksy analogies that sought to describe, neatly, the mess of life.” - Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc.

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“I like to see design inspiration as something that lives in the intersection of three things: Satisfying a curiosity, Defying the expected, and Touching an emotion.”
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When planning the next features for your product, classify feature concepts into one of three buckets: “Metrics Movers”, “Customer Requests”, and “Customer Delight” https://t.co/QTkoYOPQlj

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“In a 1996 Wired Magazine interview, Steve Jobs said: ’Creativity is just connecting things.’ How might we start thinking of new ways of using existing services and products by making connections?” https://t.co/mTM6Axosbx

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"Decisions small and large are better when you keep the full context in mind."
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@thorgalcruz Interesting idea! 👍 I feel like it’s hard to nail things the first time, so it’s a process of iteration toward the final outcome.

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"Ideally, what you and your co-founder have in common are 'guts' and the willingness to 'fail a lot.'" https://t.co/uX14EYmKOe

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"The job of a startup is to accumulate as many customers as possible with the least amount of effort and capital." https://t.co/bGGtWsPjsq

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"Supermarkets in Vietnam have adopted an initiative from Thailand that makes use of banana leaves instead of plastic as a packaging alternative." https://t.co/vGkKVt7ZG9

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"The idea of using a car as a nap pod, a phone booth, or even a private YouTube studio to record a rap session is fascinating, and it highlights how the primary function of a service is always up for interpretation." https://t.co/saRnnGxv1l

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"Easy to overlook, but curious and rewarding, Japan’s unique manhole covers are a charming reminder that the mundane can be exciting, and that you should never forget to look down." https://t.co/ZRQtTymoqK