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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. I've found the best way for a product manager to learn to develop a vision is to immerse yourself in a collection of compelling product visions as inspiration for your own.

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10-30-50 Product Management—Shreyas Doshi, Product Lead at Stripe

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

in 2006 as my first PM job. Despite my initial concerns about working on ads, I found that AdWords was a spectacular team to work on, mainly because it had great people. You also need to work on minimizing your weaknesses. In my own personal case, I was naturally very strong on product sense and extremely weak on execution.

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Product Management is on the up-and-up – why now?

BrainMates

Says Nick Coster, “Since 2004-2006 when Facebook, Twitter and other social media ushered in a new era for the internet as a two-way medium, people shared the successes and failures of their product experiences with huge networks that enabled viral spreads of customer experiences. Preparing yourself to move into a Product Management role.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Three Product Strategy Tools to Use in Your Next PM Interview

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Overview A good product manager must mix a strategic awareness of his/her company and its overall position in the market, together with a strategy of how their own product will compete. They then have to switch gears and make the strategy happen in practice – that is part of the challenge of being a product manager!

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

In this very special episode of Inside Intercom, I sat down with Des, our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about our respective journeys so far, our thoughts on Intercom through the years, and what the future holds. I love building products, building teams, building companies. Short on time?