Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

SiriusDecisions 2018 Product Management Planning Assumptions. Speaking of looking ahead to 2018, every year at SiriusDecisions we publish research on new trends and important areas that deserve additional focus for the coming year. You can download the 2018 SiriusDecisions Product Management Planning Assumptions to read the full list.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2018: "Can you teach people how to do MVP experiments?

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First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Since he cut his teeth as a first-time founder in turbulent times, he's gone on to build two other companies. Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2021

In the battle for user attention, it is crucial to know what features and elements are relevant and up-to-date for startup mobile app development now. A lot of big companies like Apple or Google use eye-catching 3D elements in their solutions. This style was inspired by the specific architecture of the USSR and fell away back in 2018.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. Each individual phase of this life cycle presents unique challenges that can make or break any company. Why Do Most Startups Fail? According to Crunchbase , there were 3,002 startups launched globally in 2018.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Above: One of my favorite moments in 2018, with the a16z team and POTUS44. . Dear readers, Wow, so 2018 was a year with a lot of change – I started a new job, recommitted myself to writing (and tweeting), traveled a little too much, moved back down to Palo Alto (temporarily!), Download a PDF with 2018 essays. Best, Andrew.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

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. Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 – Some Highlights. Matt Wensing – 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups In 10 Minutes. Key Takeaways from Business of Software USA 2018 – Bethan Palmer, IDR Solutions. What an incredible few days. Rick Nucci – AI, Hype, And The Future Of Humanity.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2018

And the majority of those were done by startups that did not have a product yet. Is an ICO really a smart move for pre-product startups? Especially when you consider that about 30 percent of startup post-mortems mention running out of money as one reason for their failure. Sounds good right?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2019

For 2018, we spent the year creating a meetup-driven product community in our very own Good Life state. The rest of this post will about two things: What I learned helping create and grow this community in 2018. What we learned in 2018 Treat the community as a product. Use local companies and organizations as hosts and sponsors.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

This $8 million investment proved to be a landmark decision for both companies. This translated to a return on investment of over 2,700 times, solidifying Sequoia’s reputation for identifying and backing promising tech startups with the potential for explosive growth. The company saw its revenue go from ~$443 million in 2018 to ~$1.3

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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Amplitude

MARCH 1, 2018

Startup founders and product leaders are building the future. Building startups is hard and getting harder. The most important goal at the seed stage of a company is to find product market fit. These are companies that continue to innovate and build new products that have become a part of our daily lives. 90% Scholarship.

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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our flat company model at the time, enabled the first joiners to form the company together. However, at that time, I was busy working on my startup as a co-founder, so this feeling endured for another 1,5 years. We did research for Netflix and supported the startups of the Google incubator. But UX studio did.

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ProductBoard

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

About 18 months ago, I joined a tiny startup in Prague as a product designer. That tiny startup is now a series B company with 130+ employees and 2500+ customers. In the summer of 2018, I became the third member of the productboard design team. Back then, the whole company had a little over 20 people.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Why is it that so many companies dread the end-of-year tax process? For many, it’s a scattered, painful, and overly time-consuming process: information isn’t organized in one central location and, often, companies aren’t quite sure what information they need to compile (no matter how many years they’ve been in business and paid taxes).

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? And since I’m focused mostly on consumer companies – is there anything exciting happening? The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2018

At a time when publishers are dropping print editions with alarming frequency, to hear that a software company is doubling down in printed books seems, in 2018, to make almost no sense. So today we’re giving you two new ones: print and audio.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Above: One of my favorite moments in 2018, with the a16z team and POTUS44. . Dear readers, Wow, so 2018 was a year with a lot of change – I started a new job, recommitted myself to writing (and tweeting), traveled a little too much, moved back down to Palo Alto (temporarily!), Download a PDF with 2018 essays. Best, Andrew.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In 2018, it became clear we needed to scale, and fast – our APAC customer base had increased more than 900%, and about 10 to 12% of the company’s revenue was already there. In the Sydney office, they’ve seen firsthand they can grow within the company, which helps keep turnover low. Offices come later. .

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Dear Strategy: “Do startups or small businesses really have the time to develop formal strategies like you talk about on the show? What do you suggest for those types of companies?”. . To be clear, I firmly believe that all companies, no matter their size, need to have some type of a strategic process. But why is this the case?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 3, 2019

In this talk, I do my best to describe what culture is and why it is so important as companies grow. Culture expresses a company’s shared beliefs, values, and principles. A well-defined culture, unique to your company’s mission and stage: Helps companies to assess “best fit” employees (and vice versa).

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Basel Fakhoury

MAY 17, 2018

In the rest of this post, I’ll share how we relied on meta-user research to build a product that is now used by research, design, and product teams at the most innovative companies in the world. three broke startup founders (without a startup)?—?were What if we found 1 person that said, “yeah, I guess that’s annoying?”

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

By deeply understanding users’ needs, desires, and contexts, companies can create meaningful solutions that address real human problems. Companies that adopt these technologies early will gain a significant competitive advantage. NLP for In-depth Insights A tech startup recently launched a new mobile app.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Matt Wensing 1 Startup in 10 years vs 1,000 in 10 minutes. BoS USA 2018 | 8 mins. Matt Wensing P redicting you company’s success. Bridget Harris The buskers guide to running a tech startup. BoS USA 2018 | 57 mins. BoS USA 2018 | 65 mins. Patrick McKenzie Hello Ladies! Marketing to Minorities.

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Indicative

JUNE 18, 2018

While the company is still tackling challenges like the unreliability of GPS in big cities and waterproofing the wearable, the technology did help one user become the first blind marathon runner to complete the NYC Marathon unassisted. The company is now raising funds to complete an FDA trial and launch.

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Indicative

JULY 17, 2018

Indicative was proud to be among the presenting companies at July’s event, hosted at AppNexus. Dash, which the company said has been downloaded in over 100 countries, has developed a predictive model of battery life with manufacturer Johnson Control. Read more about the night’s highlights below.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2018

It’s imperative that early hires are able to hit the ground running and are excited by a chaotic startup environment. Hiring strategy for early stage startups. We’ve since scaled to more than 35 in Dublin the past 2 years – and 110 globally in the first half of 2018. Had a big impact on their last company.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

He suggested that “we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.”. The tech equivalent of the “ great man theory ” of history is the “big tech company” theory of technological progress. Big tech takes over. Rise of mobile.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

It’s fascinating to me to be in a startup working with some of the largest companies in the world. From there, I went on to become a technical product manager at a machine learning (ML) startup, Context Relevant, responsible for the ML platform. Landing the Role.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2018

I couldn’t find his slides online, but Chris did create this, which makes him amazing This is the sort of future that Chris Maliwat envisions, where products and companies have more personal relationships with their users. Importance of Communication Karl Sluis , Founder at CityAtlas.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to work with countless technology companies in my career, and while I met with an incredible number of women executives, CEOs, marketers and more, I most often saw myself in a room among men. According to AnitaB.org’s Top Companies for Women Technologists Report , women technologists made up 28.8 percent in 2019.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 11, 2021

billion in 2018. Product managers at startups in particular are motivated to find ways to stand out among larger, more established rivals. New packaging considerations, however, can mean more cost to companies. Product managers at startups can use product packaging to stand out from other competitors.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. After working in marketing for four years in London, Negar moved back to Vancouver in late 2018. When Negar joined the startup, there were only five employees and no product managers.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 1, 2023

” By focussing everything they did on the needs of their customers and helping them grow, they also grew faster, made their lives easier and changed the way they think about collaboration across the company. Autobooks’s co-founders had built and exited a previous business successfully but their new startup needed to move faster.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 13, 2020

The IT outsourcing industry garnered $62 billion in revenue in 2018 and has become a truly global business; you’re just as likely to outsource work to Ukraine or Canada as you are to India or Brazil. It’s not just helpful for startups and non-tech firms. Major companies […].

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