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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers. Listen if you’d like to learn more about: When should you hire your first product manager? How should you organise a product team? Quotes of the Episode.

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The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Startups are often talked about as if they’re all the same, as if experience in one is directly transferable to another. Georgie Smallwood, Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility, joined us on the podcast to chat about the differences in working for earlier stage companies and those that are scaling up. She covers why she [.].

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Managing Your Startup Options – Karthik Suresh on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. Though he’s now a Product Manager at Facebook, Karthik Suresh co-founded Altrest and grew Craft.io Finding product/market fit.

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Mental Models for Product Managers – Part 2

The Secret PM Handbook

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. They are not used enough.

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The Making of Product Managers: Michael’s Story

The Product Coalition

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time.

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Games to Play and Become a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The Product Manager is the spy trying to guess what the users want by asking questions with little to no clue on their needs. I disagree From teaching me how to speak and write better English, to lecturing me about medieval Europe, games have the power not only to entertain but also to make you think and learn new things.

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How can Enterprise Product Managers Attain Maximum Insight From Limited Datapoints?

Mind the Product

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. Aspiring enterprise product managers often tell me that collecting a robust customer sample is difficult.