Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He also led product management at social networking pioneer Friendster, and was the cofounder and CEO of YourVersion, a TechCrunch award-winning personalized news startup.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. In this part of his talk, Rajnish talks about ‘core actions’ and ‘virtuous loops’ – a simple framework of sorts to understand user journey and gauge both the product and business […].

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are so proud to be a finalist in the “Best Project Management” category — our customers continually see our hard work, and this year, so did the SaaS Awards panel. The panel was comprised of top industry experts from the technical, business, academic, and marketing expertise spheres.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are so proud to be a finalist in the “Best Project Management” category — our customers continually see our hard work, and this year, so did the SaaS Awards panel. The panel was comprised of top industry experts from the technical, business, academic, and marketing expertise spheres.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An MBA program, much like a product management job description, covers a broad swath of topics. The product management role entails such a wide range of skills and expertise.

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Indicative

JUNE 18, 2021

Indicative CEO Jeremy Levy and Snowplow cofounder and CEO Alex Dean took on this topic in a recent webinar. That’s why Alex and cofounder Yali built Snowplow around first-party data collection using an open-source platform. They discussed the current state of the data ecosystem and what it means for data teams today and in the future.

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Mixpanel

MAY 19, 2022

It’s, therefore, essential for you, as a product manager, designer, or any kind of product stakeholder, to have a sophisticated understanding of how event tracking works so you can, well, know what’s happening in your mobile app. Event tracking is how you know what’s happening in your mobile apps.

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Mixpanel

JULY 26, 2022

Engineers are technical. They tend to process technical information better than less formal information, and that’s where analytics comes in. When engineers see the event definitions and metrics, it’s a technical way for them to better understand what the point of the feature is in the first place.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

release becomes far more manageable. A larger lesson here is that taking user feedback at face value will only get you so far—even when you have so few users that you can comfortably manage speaking to each one personally. What happens next is that your official app launch pulls in more downloads than you ever could have imagined.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

The point is that some of these might be catchable by non-technical team members whose job it is to analyze the data, but a lot of cases could only ever be noticed by someone who understands how the implementation actually works on a technical level: an engineer like yourself. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

We talk to Divya Dhar an Exponent alumni, on her diverse journey from being a doctor to founding non-profits and most recently a stint in product management. Q: Could you talk a little bit about your transition from a doctor to a n entrepreneur and a product manager? Q: Who’s a product manager you admire?

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And that makes it possible to get into all the benefits of a sophisticated platform like Mixpanel with little technical risk—even if for only a trial run and/or to use it alongside other tools like GA. Here’s how you (or your app developer team) can do it. As a matter of principle, abstract-away your dependencies.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?

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Mixpanel

APRIL 7, 2022

And even apps that manage to remain sticky despite user friction will see their users struggle to find the intended value in all its features. As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. Think: awarding users points for marking tasks “complete” in a project management app.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a year when the product management community grew significantly and continued to mature. Lots of us are still trying to work out what the scope of a product management role should be and how it should be applied within their organisations. Perhaps product management is becoming a misnomer? Scope of the job.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For workplace apps, these are the managers that author and create documents and projects, and who invite coworkers to participate. Focus on attracting content creators to a new video platform, or sellers to a new marketplace, or the project managers inside a company to a new workplace app. The other side of the network will follow.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 21, 2021

That said, if you’re following the approaches above and simplifying your implementation, identifying and managing such hiccups will be that much simpler—not to mention allow you to fully enjoy SwiftUI as it was meant to be used. About Joseph Pacheco.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Down the line, there’s opportunity to create a network of these creators and listeners, along the lines of “come for the tool, stay for the network.”.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Down the line, there’s opportunity to create a network of these creators and listeners, along the lines of “come for the tool, stay for the network.”.

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