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How to Become a Startup Product Manager without Experience

The Product HQ

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

Larger companies often have several portfolios; early-stage startups, in contrast, usually have a singleton one—it consists of just one offering. A product family is commonly defined as a group of related products. Carrying out portfolio management and creating and evolving a portfolio strategy requires expertise and time.

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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product Talk

This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He says, “My earlier approach to building products was to start with an idea, build a product, and then market it.”

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Product Development Health Check Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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Why your startup might never achieve great design

UX Planet

Avoiding the 7 most common mistakes founders make when building a design team and culture in their startups. Intro If you’re reading this article, you’re probably at a point where forming a competent design team for your business is essential. Consequently, many products are initially developed without a designer on the team.

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How Agile Has Changed Product Management

Roman Pichler

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader.