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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” These teams work towards business goals?

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Best Resources for Data Folks

Iteratively Blog

It’s definitely worth your 15 minutes! ? Development. Known for data visualization & hosted by maestros Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner, Data Stories hosts discussions on the latest developments in data analytics, visualization, and other similar topics. Ask any startup founder to recommend you a book on analytics.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.

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What is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence?

Sachin Rekhi

The Role The reason the definition of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence is so elusive is because the role takes on different meanings at different firms. This EIR has usually just finished a previous venture and is in between startups. Though full scale development is usually left for after the EIR period is over. Adverse Signaling.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. There are things, bets you might take, but you definitely wouldn’t have taken in the midst of a pandemic.

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From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll

Amplitude

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! I don’t think about working in the VC space, but rather the broader startup ecosystem,” Ashley said in an interview.