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Five principles for successfully managing managers

Lenny Rachitsky

Along the way, he helped Square scale from a late-stage pre-IPO startup to $3.6 Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. How do I help line managers deal with IC performance issues on their team instead of dealing with them myself?

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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product Talk

This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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Y Oslo 2024: When It Comes to Discovery, Something is Better Than Nothing

Product Talk

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I think that was in 2004.

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Pre-Product Market Fit: Ten Great Books for Product People

The Product Coalition

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Poor questions yield little value. ?? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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TEI 338: Better OKRs, with the person who wrote the original OKR book – with Christina Wodtke

Product Innovation Educators

We need an OKR expert to learn more about this, and joining us is the woman who wrote the bestselling book, Radical Focus , that tackles the use of OKRs and startup culture with an eye to getting the right things done. and many others, as well as founding three startups, and the online design magazine Boxes and Arrows.

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Why So Many Products Fail to Create Value

The Product Guy

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Enter Lean Customer Development.