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Bootstrapping To 10 Million – The Story Of Kovai.co

Userpilot

For instance, since 2004, Saravana had been writing about the Microsoft BizTalk technology on his blog. Back then, he had no idea that the blog would become a primary customer acquisition channel for a product he would launch in the future. This isn’t the typical trajectory for a new product, so how did he make it happen?

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Agile Movers & Shakers (6)

The Product Coalition

It resonated strongly with my beliefs about personal autonomy and all my prior training as a psychologist.” “ Barry : Failed software development projects. I was responsible for managing software development projects. Developers, because of the growing crunch-culture. During Christmas of 2004! I like that.

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The Six Essential Books that Every Product Manager Should Read

Mind the Product

Read books, keep tabs on blogs, follow people on Twitter, listen to podcasts, be a massive consumer of ideas and then see what resonates most with you. Published in March 2004, Inmates was one of the first books published that strongly called out the the insane usability problems with most software tools at the time.

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Product Management is Culture Management

Mind the Product

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Same applies to all managers out there: you will need training, and reading 10 blog posts won’t magically make you a guru of cross-cultural leadership. Peterson, Laila T.

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Conducting User Research in Product Management

The Product Guy

In 2004, Adrienne Tan co-founded Brainmates with Nick Coster. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. After doing IT consulting for some time he moved into Product Management at Lucent Technologies and held various roles developing and launching multiple telecom software and hardware products.

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Applying Product Management to Web Design in a Multiscreen Era

The Product Guy

In 2004, Adrienne Tan co-founded Brainmates with Nick Coster. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. After doing IT consulting for some time he moved into Product Management at Lucent Technologies and held various roles developing and launching multiple telecom software and hardware products.

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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Product Management

The Product Guy

In 2004, Adrienne Tan co-founded Brainmates with Nick Coster. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. After doing IT consulting for some time he moved into Product Management at Lucent Technologies and held various roles developing and launching multiple telecom software and hardware products.