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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When you’re building a relatively simple CRUD app, the project planning process doesn’t have to be overly sophisticated. Do some user research. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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

The Product Coalition

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.” During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates.

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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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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.