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Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more

NextBigWhat

Top mistakes engineers make when they become founders. Spending time cleaning up technical debt. Thinking you NEED to have a “suave/charismatic” business cofounder. The post Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. Here are four ways you can position yourself as the go-to engineer for everything product analytics—and simultaneously make yourself invaluable to both the product and engineering teams. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You’d be celebrated.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

She also led three acquisitions as she helped the company scale through a period of hyper-growth. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Brant Cooper, Co-Founder of Moves the Needle. Get your tickets.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

See the end of this article for more information on how we helped bring these companies and their product management to the next level. Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. This will be the driving force for your company's success.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

CEO/cofounder Drew Houston’s made a very helpful presentation describing his journey towards referral programs, and the general trajectory was the following: First, do all the things you’re “supposed” to do. Or what if improving a referral program takes engineering team away from critical features?

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

Instead, product managers come from many walks of life, including engineering, marketing, project management, or something completely unrelated. Compared to a candidate that only boasts a Bachelor’s Degree or has a Masters in a technical field, an MBA shows that you mean business… literally. Changing how you’re perceived.

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Always implement analytics as part of feature development. Here’s why.

Mixpanel

But different companies have different strategies for how and when they update their analytics implementations. When engineers implement features, they write code. When engineers add analytics events to new features, they add additional analytics code to their new feature code. Product analytics is an ongoing effort.