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Lessons from a two-time unicorn builder, 50-time startup advisor, and 20-time company board member | Uri Levine (co-founder of Waze)

Lenny Rachitsky

The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention. Achieving product-market fit requires patience and iteration. Don’t waste this valuable real estate on showing your company name or “Thank you.” ” Use the “30-day test” to maintain a high-performance team.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. How will you be taking this to market? Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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Identifying Stakeholders for Product Success

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. Write their names down and than ask yourself, who couldn’t sleep well when this project fails? She is driven by delivering the right products to market which make a difference to patient’s life globally every day.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this episode of Inside Intercom, our Director of Brand Marketing Sarah Tran had the honour of sitting down with Amanda for a chat about how governments can leverage technology to build better services and empower its citizens.

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33 Amazing Articles Every Product Manager Must Read

Hutwork

You also need to name KPIs for product people. Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO. Ken Norton uses Kodak’s failure to jump on the digital market as the basis for asserting a new decision theory.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.