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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Ten Years of How To Be a Good Product Manager

Good Product Manager

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. I’ve heard from people who’ve realized they wanted to go into product management in part by reading this blog. Ten Year Anniversary! Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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Ten Years of How To Be a Good Product Manager

Good Product Manager

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. I’ve heard from people who’ve realized they wanted to go into product management in part by reading this blog. Ten Year Anniversary! Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. These insights are crucial to the success of your product concept, but not the only ones.

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

determining what kind of product manager you are, what kind you want to be and creating a development plan based on it. A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants. This post is about just that?—?determining I’ll use myself as an example.

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Unlocking the power of imperfection: Embrace your inner imposter!

People-First Product Leadership

Deep fear of being exposed as someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing, despite their position in the world. Instead you can unpack the questions together (as a product team). He shared in 2012, 50% of bookings were rejected. What is imposter syndrome? Lots of hands went up.