The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. Don’t worry, you are still needed. Here’s why and how.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. “I started out in financial services which took me to data and CRM in marketing. I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. It wasn’t sexy.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

While there is still no one-size-fits-all solution, a standard is emerging from most successful product teams and organisations that can serve as a template for your own: Product Management Career Ladder. Since it’s still a relatively new role, there’s a lot of confusion around product management job titles, seniority, and hierarchy.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust. I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

How the work of the future will come from new tools, new media formats, and new monetization formats — and how the Passion Economy is different than the Gig Economy. Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Complementary, but different.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then it’s about figuring out how do you leverage what you already have in terms of technology and in terms of the user base to go get that. And those people who do sign up, how do we get them to be successful to set up their first accounts or service on Mixpanel? I feel like we kept some good things about each time period.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then it’s about figuring out how do you leverage what you already have in terms of technology and in terms of the user base to go get that. And those people who do sign up, how do we get them to be successful to set up their first accounts or service on Mixpanel? I feel like we kept some good things about each time period.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

How the work of the future will come from new tools, new media formats, and new monetization formats — and how the Passion Economy is different than the Gig Economy. Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Complementary, but different.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them. They don’t know what you want them to do.

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