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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Lenny Rachitsky

Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit. Find 6 to 8 B2B customers, or 15 to 25 B2C customers, and make something they are willing to recommend to other people. People perceive product management negatively if they haven’t worked with great product managers.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Who attends Mind the Product (MTP)? The product management community typically represents above 75 percent of the attendee pool at MTP. Other attendees tend to be from business analytics, UX & design, development & engineering, and project management departments. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium.