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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?Nir This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell. Scientific progress depends on good research, and good research needs good statistics. How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

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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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft. Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Christina currently teaches at Stanford on the HCI program in Computer Science. Dan began his career designing nuclear-powered submarines.

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

The Product Coalition

During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates. I saw the needs for UX research but we didn’t have a UI/UX team. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research. Think Ahead! Follow her here on Medium.

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

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. For app stores, these are the developers that actually create the products. The other side of the network will follow. The question is, how?

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.