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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

Here are four ways you can position yourself as the go-to engineer for everything product analytics—and simultaneously make yourself invaluable to both the product and engineering teams. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You can find many more examples here.

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

Mixpanel

From here, it’s easy to assume what you’ve put out into the world is delivering high value to your users right out the gate—but you might also just be seeing a positive initial response to things like your icon, marketing/branding, and mission, without your new users really engaging with your app’s features at all.

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

Instead, product managers come from many walks of life, including engineering, marketing, project management, or something completely unrelated. CEOs are responsible for strategy, finance, sales, marketing, growth, customer satisfaction, and more. For some hiring managers, it’s a non-negotiable prerequisite for leadership positions.

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

Andrew Chen

I’ve seen the difficulty of managing the hard side for rideshare first-hand, where drivers are the ones selling their time and effort in the market. For Uber, in any given market, so-called “Power Drivers” constitute 20% of the supply but create 60% of the trips. With that, the rideshare market was kicked off.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

So you gave them anonymous chat and positioned it in the app where it can’t possibly go unnoticed. 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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Behavioral Data and the Modern Data Stack: Privacy, Building Your Stack, and What’s Next

Indicative

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. It’s a positive feedback loop where data collection actively improves the experience of its subjects.

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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. And in fact, the combined revenue of Headspace and Calm are more than half of the entire podcasting market.