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Mixpanel Marketing Analytics

Mixpanel

But here’s a little secret: More than half of our users today are actually on marketing teams. Product and marketing teams have to collaborate very closely to drive growth, especially when the goal is product-led growth (PLG). There are two reasons why. That makes it important to use the same analytics tool.

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393: Tech-driven vs. market-driven innovation – with John Cooley, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Insights for product managers from a case study with an electric vehicle gamechanger. Today we are exploring technology-driven vs. market-driven innovation. There are times that a technology comes first and later a problem associated with a market need is found that the technology addresses. John Cooley is with us.

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Book Review: The Phenomenal Product Manager

The Product Bistro

I bought a copy of “ The Phenomenal Product Manager ” in 2009 or so on a lark. Written by Brian Lawley, the top man at the 280Group , a consultancy, and training organization with deep product management and product marketing skills and reputations, I was at first put off by how thin the book was.

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How to be a great product manager during a recession

Product Management Unpacked

The Great Recession (December 2007- June 2009). Having spent 38 years working and most of it in product management – either as a product manager, leading product management organizations or as a CEO of a company that was ‘the product’– I have some advice for you, dear reader. So be prepared.

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

The Beginning: Redefining Communication WhatsApp’s journey began in 2009 when two former Yahoo employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum , envisioned a platform that would provide a simple and reliable way for people to stay connected. On February 24, 2009, Koum completed the development of the iOS application and established “WhatsApp Inc.”

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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.