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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Lenny Rachitsky

After a long product career and founding multiple companies, Christian now spends his time working closely with product leaders at companies big and small to implement and improve their discipline of product management. 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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Who is “the Customer?” by Luke Taylor

Mind the Product

TL;DR: Land and expand is a great tactic, but there are pitfalls, explains Luke Taylor , formerly Head of Product Management at Huddle. Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base.

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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. Vertical integration delivers a level of control but also requires incurring costs a startup may not be able to afford, e.g., staff augmentation and management. managing payroll, onboarding).

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8 Keys to Getting Started

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. We stopped using the system within a month.

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When You Lead Daily Standups, What Are Your Best Techniques?

The Product Coalition

How do product managers lead standups? In light of this, we wanted to see if we could uncover other reasons why — by finding out exactly how various product managers lead standups. Tremis: And how do you manage to keep the timings of these standups to an effective duration and ensure maximum effectives?

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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. Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And no one knows this better than Zanade Mann, founder and Managing Director of the Black Women’s Business Collective. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. But what if the manager role is not for you?