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Women in Product: From Product Owner to Product Business CEO – How Margaret Zablocka Pulled Onoco off the Ground Against The Odds

Userpilot

Margaret Zablocka is a founder and CEO of Onoco – a parenting app with 20,000 users – and the former Lead Product Manager at Betfair. Born in Poland, she moved to London in 2014 to embark on her career in Product Management. After 6 months of development, we had a successful product launch.

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Through Google Glass, darkly

Obo

How did Google, a company known to be quantitative and data-driven, invest so much into a product that failed? They probably didn’t have an adequate product planning system in place. Not to mention the failure from a monetary standpoint; in 2014 , Google lost $1.9

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6 Things Product Managers Can Do with Qualitative Research

ProductPlan

Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has over 10 years of experience building teams and digital products in the US, Europe, and Latin America. Carlos founded Product School in San Francisco in 2014. Today, the company is the global leader in product management training with 20 campuses worldwide and a live online campus.

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Why Product Features Matter

Department of Product

At the time, back in 2014, this was so much easier than having to navigate around using Google Maps. But equally, if you’ve spent the last 3 months perfecting your product vision statement with nothing to show for it, you might just have been better off producing some features in the factory after all.

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Is Product Management Certification Right For You?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+. Industry leaders from Microsoft, Google, and Airbnb (to name a few) will teach you the basics of product management. Next class starts July 29th, 2020. Location: Online. Online Available?:

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How to use email marketing to connect with your users

Intercom, Inc.

Jackson (@StartupLJackson) May 17, 2014. Product launch announcements. Every now and then, a marketer will publish a blog post claiming email marketing is dead, usually shortly after the creation of a popular new tool or social media network. As of right now, there are about 3.8

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

The product launch. For everyone who joined in the early years – 2010 to 2014 – they’ve already hit their 4 year mark and many are spinning out. We think we’ll spend years on this. This is the one. We tell that to ourselves, investors, and friends. We celebrate all the milestones we’re supposed to.