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He helped shape WallStreetBets. Now Kevin Xu is betting on his own social app.

Mixpanel

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. But if you’re going to build a differentiating social network, it really has to be at least a 10x or 20x differentiator. It can’t just be built on decentralized tech or made only for cat and dog pictures.

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AI-Washing

Mironov Consulting

  For the last 6 months, many of my discussions with product leaders have been about how to apply good product fundamentals to AI – when so much of the broader conversation is shallow or technically suspect or reduces everything to generative apps. And that they are technically feasible.   (GDPR?    PII? 

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Dear Strategy: 065 Analyzing Competitors in the Technology Space

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “What are the strategies that a Tech Product Manager can use to predict competitive movements, innovations, and/or changes in business strategy?”. . So, I would definitely recommend that you go back and refer to that episode if you have a chance. Now, that’s not to say that features aren’t important.

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How to Break into Product Marketing Management (PMM)

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Given how new and versatile the role is, product marketing management is also probably the least standardized role in tech companies, which makes the process of becoming a PMM quite obtuse and vague. The part that makes product marketing management different from other marketing roles is the technical (aka “product”) piece to the equation.

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Collecting feedback using 1 to 5 rating scale surveys

Usersnap

Definition of 1-to-5 Rating Scales Surveys 5 Types of 1 to 5 Rating Surveys 1. Semantic Differential Scale 5. Conclusion Check Usersnap’ templates for easy making 1-to-5 survey Definition of 1-to-5 Rating Scales Surveys At its core, the 1-to-5 scale is elegantly straightforward. Satisfaction Scale 2. Likert Scale 3.

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How did a Zambian architect become a Tokyo-based UX designer after studying at Stanford? – Interview with Nondo Sikazwe Part-1

freshtrax

Although the number of tourists has plummeted in the past years due to the pandemic, the percentage of foreigners in Tokyo has been increasing since 2014 with internationalization rapidly progressing in the city. Dive into the Tech industry Akiko: First of all, I’d like to ask about your career journey.

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How AI will impact product management

Lenny Rachitsky

Furthermore, soft skills like product sense, communication, creativity, and being the glue that enables a team to operate at their very best will become even more important (and a differentiator among companies). It is our job to create computing technology such that nobody has to program. Think about it—what is AI best at?