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Scaling the Product Owner Role

Roman Pichler

As long as a product is young and hasn’t reached product-market fit—or is close to achieving it—I recommend having a single person in charge of the product. The alternative to sharing the responsibility of managing a product is to break up the latter. Single product owner. Before product-market fit.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Toronto 2004, Canada Flash Forward 2004, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Flash Forward 2005, San Francisco, U.S. Banff Interactive Screen 2003, Banff, Canada Flash Forward 2002, San Francisco, U.S.

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The Importance of Listening to Your Customers by David Cancel

Mind the Product

They were marketed to US consumers on the promise of security, but to quote business news outlet Quartz: “The US’s transition to chip cards has been an utter disaster. In 2003 Lego lost $300 million – even though Lego has the highest profit margin of any toy brand – and predicted a loss of $400 million in 2004.

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Purple Squirrels and Your Product Team

Under 10 Consulting

The idea is to find someone with many years of experience in product management… with a similar product… built on similar technology… in a similar domain… serving a similar market. I wonder whether most product managers would get selected to interview for their existing jobs. (I They’re looking for a unicorn.

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AI, Autonomy, and the Build Trap – Announcing our first three speakers for #mtpcon SF

Mind the Product

Nate started his first company in 2004 where he revolutionized medical evacuation with Paraslyde, later acquired by Stryker Medical. He is also the co-author of Product Leadership: How Top Product Leaders Launch Great Products and Build Successful Teams (O’Reilly 2017). Nate Walkingshaw, Author and CXO Pluralsight.

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

Wojicki, now known for being the CEO of YouTube, actually started her career as Google’s first Marketing Manager, where she launched the now beloved Google Doodle. She made the move to product when she took over AdSense as its first Product Manager, for which she was awarded the Google Founders’ Award. of the browser market.

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DAU/MAU is an important metric, but here’s where it fails

Andrew Chen

I found this from a Facebook 2004 media kit showing crazy high numbers even with a small base of 70k users: Assessing product/market fit with DAU/MAU. In fact, I was curious at one point whether or not it’s always been that good. And it has!