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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

Proceed With Caution During the early days at Dropbox, Drew Houston, the co-founder, and CEO of Dropbox was tasked by his board to hire a product manager. A friend of mine who also worked for an early-stage startup once told me “Think of yourself as the cofounder of the company, how will you make your decisions differently?”

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. Much like a head coach in professional sports, the product manager is the leader of the team. Are you a product manager? In fact, 83.9% Startup founder?