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How To Screw Up The Launch Of A New Drug

The Accidental Product Manager

The life sciences company had developed what they thought might be a cure for the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. The Problem With A Blockbuster Drug So let’s all agree on one thing: it can take a very long time to develop a new drug. How Did The Mistake Happen So what happened during the development of this new drug?

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How to Build Products That Transform People?s Lives by Chris Hay

Mind the Product

Mobile-phone based payment system M-Pesa first launched in Kenya in 2007. Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari. Be Passionate. It’s a simple as that.

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager - Ben Horowitz Let’s talk about Product Management - Josh Elman How to Hire a Product Manager - Ken Norton Be a Great Product Leader - Adam Nash PM at Microsoft - Steve Sinofsky What Distinguishes the Top 1% Product Managers from the top 10%?

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A Better Problem Statement Template

Tyner Blain

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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TEI 306: Accomplish twice as much in half the time – with Steve Glaveski

Product Innovation Educators

The 4-Hour Work Week focuses on making the leap from employee to entrepreneur, but my system is for individuals working either for themselves or as part of a team, and for leaders of organizations looking to build Time Rich cultures. A lot has changed since The 4-Hour Work Week was published in 2007.

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How 2 hyper-growth companies are using Mixpanel to power and improve their data operations

Mixpanel

Launched in 2007, over 7 million active users spend over 300 minutes per month on its website and mobile app. If you are a growing business, it’s common to add more people–more developers, more designers, more product managers. We have Mixpanel working as the entry and exit point of the process of defining our product team strategies.

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Educating the Market Starts With a Need

The Product Coalition

It was Friday, November 16th, 2007. By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. There has to be an unmet need that you can answer.

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