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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. 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. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian.

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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.” You probably won’t get things right the first time and that’s ok. My 3 Biggest Takeaways?—?Being

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

Most product managers combine what they’ve learned during their formal education with their real-world experience. While it won’t hurt your career prospects, an MBA program is a significant time and financial commitment. CEOs are responsible for strategy, finance, sales, marketing, growth, customer satisfaction, and more.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. These are times where you don’t just not know what to build, you don’t even know how you would build it. Do some user research. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

.” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For social networks, these are often the content creators that generate the media everyone consumes. This the “Hard Side” of your network.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019. Thanks, Andrew.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019.