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

NextBigWhat

Spend too much time building the product instead of talking to users. In the early days, the most important goal is to de-risk the market need for your product. You don’t want to invest a ton of effort in your product before you are confident it’s something people will want. Spending time cleaning up technical debt.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

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. He’s also run a small R&D group at the BBC and developed products for UpMyStreet, Time Out, Jawbone, Nokia and many others.

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We’re Thrilled to Welcome Ken Yarmosh as Partner

Modus Create

His experience will supercharge our ability to deliver product-led growth to our clients. “Ken’s experience with native application development will expand on Modus’ traditional strengths in mobile-web and hybrid mobile development. ” – Patrick Sheridan, Cofounder & Managing Partner at Modus Create.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

They have big advantages over paid marketing channels, in that you give your CAC to your users, who then spend it within your product, as opposed to handing it over to Google or Facebook. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s worth adding to complement other marketing efforts. The history of the referral program.

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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

When you’re in the early stages of launching a new app, you’ve already got an enormous number of challenges with little time and resources to get it all done. So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., You know where users clicked and didn’t click, when they clicked, and in what order.

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Backlog named SaaS Awards finalist

Nulab

We are so proud to be a finalist in the “Best Project Management” category — our customers continually see our hard work, and this year, so did the SaaS Awards panel. The panel was comprised of top industry experts from the technical, business, academic, and marketing expertise spheres.

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

Women, like Kate Hare, are at the top of the field, shaping the products, brands and experiences that have become staples in our digital repertoires. Today, she is the cofounder and CEO of Kit, a social recommendation platform where tastemakers share products they love. Stories of success beg the question, “How do I get there?”.