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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.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. And many executives have never seen good product management.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium. Other attendees tend to be from marketing, design, and engineering. A good mix of attendees from B2B and B2C software technology companies. Did we miss your favorite?