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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?Nir This highly practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell. Scientific progress depends on good research, and good research needs good statistics. How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When you’re building a relatively simple CRUD app, the project planning process doesn’t have to be overly sophisticated. Do some user research. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft. Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Nir Eyal, Author and Investor. Get your tickets.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?

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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates. I saw the needs for UX research but we didn’t have a UI/UX team. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research. Think Ahead! Follow her here on Medium.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.