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A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Lenny Rachitsky

Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018. Likely a pre-seed or seed-stage company.

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Position Products Perfectly, Prototyping Properly: Product Management Alphabet Aerobics

The Product Coalition

The track gained renewed attention in 2014, when Daniel Radcliffe, performed the entire song flawlessly on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. link] In the original song the lyrics, every two lines move to the next letter of the alphabet. Alphabet Aerobics Klaas Hermans for Sharpwitted.ninja.

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489: Product Portfolio Management: Third of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

By understanding the essentials of portfolio management, product managers and leaders can better position their ideas, defend resources for their projects, and contribute to the organization’s success. Career Growth : Product managers are well-positioned to become leaders within their organizations.

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management.

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The new Mixpanel.com: How to marry design with the right tech stack

Mixpanel

The Mixpanel homepage circa 2014. If that weren’t enough, the codebase, developed externally, was built in languages and frameworks our broader engineering team had no plans to ever support, leaving us in a precarious position if anything ever went wrong. What should a website do? It was time for a change. Decision on Next.js

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The new Mixpanel.com: How to marry design with the right tech stack

Mixpanel

The Mixpanel homepage circa 2014. If that weren’t enough, the codebase, developed externally, was built in languages and frameworks our broader engineering team had no plans to ever support, leaving us in a precarious position if anything ever went wrong. What should a website do? It was time for a change. Decision on Next.js

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The new Mixpanel.com: How to marry design with the right tech stack

Mixpanel

The Mixpanel homepage circa 2014. If that weren’t enough, the codebase, developed externally, was built in languages and frameworks our broader engineering team had no plans to ever support, leaving us in a precarious position if anything ever went wrong. What should a website do? It was time for a change. Decision on Next.js