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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. During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

As always the core of the conference is our line-up of amazing speakers, and the insights and stories they bring to the conference is what starts all those conversations. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Leisa is responsible for building a better understanding of users and customers at Atlassian.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. When you’re building a relatively simple CRUD app, the project planning process doesn’t have to be overly sophisticated. Do some user research. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?

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

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. For app stores, these are the developers that actually create the products. This the “Hard Side” of your network. The question is, how?

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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Solving problems quickly, efficiently, and with customer needs as the north star separated the great brands from the good ones in a year that has completely changed the way we digitally engage with brands we love. Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?Nir How to Create Products and Services Customers Want.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space.