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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian.

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

The Product Coalition

He considered product managers to be on a spectrum from “librarian” who is focused on facilitating communication and coordination to “poet” who formulates product strategy based on customer insights. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research. They do whatever needs to be done.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Was it insight, opinion, guidance on how to get the best out of colleagues or to make your voice heard, career advice, best practices, or something more fundamental? Make yourself uncomfortable was the advice of Ken Norton from Google Ventures, speaking at our San Francisco conference this year. Organise around customers.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For marketplaces, these are usually the sellers and providers who spend their entire day attracting users with their products and services.