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

The Product Coalition

I also covered project coordination before our technical program manager came on board and proposed to hire a QA/QE lead to make our team more quality-focused and our products more reliable. Bastiane Huang is a Product Manager at Osaro, a San Francisco based startup that builds machine learning software for robotic vision and control.

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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. But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Due to the constant evolution of the product manager’s role, in the startup world, often people become product managers by default, and they don’t quite understand how to take on this responsibility. Bain Public was of tremendous support toward those objectives" Virgile Ollivier, CoFounder & CEO. Are you a product manager?

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Based on our conversations, lag in monetization isn’t due to lack of efficacy of ads. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? Limitations of podcast advertising.

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

Andrew Chen

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization. Based on our conversations, lag in monetization isn’t due to lack of efficacy of ads. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? Limitations of podcast advertising.