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Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more

NextBigWhat

Spend too much time building the product instead of talking to users. You don’t want to invest a ton of effort in your product before you are confident it’s something people will want. In fact, if customers are sticking around despite how buggy it is, that’s a good sign you’re making something they want.

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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Brant Cooper, Co-Founder of Moves the Needle.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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We’re Thrilled to Welcome Ken Yarmosh as Partner

Modus Create

His experience will supercharge our ability to deliver product-led growth to our clients. “Ken’s experience with native application development will expand on Modus’ traditional strengths in mobile-web and hybrid mobile development. ” – Patrick Sheridan, Cofounder & Managing Partner at Modus Create.

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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

When you’re in the early stages of launching a new app, you’ve already got an enormous number of challenges with little time and resources to get it all done. So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., You know where users clicked and didn’t click, when they clicked, and in what order.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

They have big advantages over paid marketing channels, in that you give your CAC to your users, who then spend it within your product, as opposed to handing it over to Google or Facebook. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s worth adding to complement other marketing efforts. They also tend to decline in importance over time.