Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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Innovatemap

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Christian called this book “required reading” for all startup founders who want to build PLG products. Nick Roethlein listens to acquire professional development tools and apply them to his own journey. And marketers just starting their career should pick this up like it’s a handbook.”. The Cold Start Problem. Andrew Chen.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Being a Tech developer, how do I transition into a Product Manager role? I ( LinkedIn profile ) was in a very similar situation a few years ago, when I co-founded a Tech Startup and was managing the product. To start with, I wrote this handbook “ Product Management 101 ”. Click ??

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve done courses in related areas like software development, marketing and project management but hold almost no formal certifications. I did everything from the UX design and “development” to marketing, getting user feedback and even copywriting. Do I Even Need to do one? This is usually the first thing I’m asked.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

I’m planning on writing a few more posts that break down books by stages of career and personal development, but here is my quintessential list of must reads for any product manager. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan This is basically the best handbook on product management that I’ve ever read.

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Sequent Learning

APRIL 22, 2019

Hooked does an incredible job in explaining how product managers can include consumer psychology in product development to generate rewarding products. The Startup Playbook: Founder-to-Founder Advice From Two Startup Veterans by Rajat Bhargava (Author), Will Herman. The Business Acumen Handbook by Steven Haines.

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Userpilot

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, they support in-depth user behavior analysis to help you better understand user needs and inform the product development process. This is an acronym for Happiness, Engagement , Adoption, Retention , and Task Success, and was originally developed by Google. Startup – from $279 per month. A/B testing. A/B testing.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 26, 2019

Modularization can manage the complexity and customization in product development. For example, Uber developed Uber eats, based on modules such as its already established network of drivers and tech platform that can track and predict driving times. The modules were turned into a shared infrastructure available to outside developers.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

In his groundbreaking book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries illustrates how entrepreneurs can build and launch minimal versions of their products optimized to generate reliable feedback before iterating on those products. However, startups are very different from large companies.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

The solution is to develop an emotional ‘hook’ that fundamentally changes user behavior. Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques. IDEA : The Lean Startup movement generated new and valuable ideas in product development. Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. by Michael Michalko.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

In his groundbreaking book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries illustrates how entrepreneurs can build and launch minimal versions of their products optimized to generate reliable feedback before iterating on those products. However, startups are very different from large companies.

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DISQO

JUNE 15, 2015

In his groundbreaking book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries illustrates how entrepreneurs can build and launch minimal versions of their products optimized to generate reliable feedback before iterating on those products. However, startups are very different from large companies.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. This is more effective than an employee handbook since humans tend to retain more information when they actively participate in something, as opposed to passive reading. Speed is of the essence here.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A Product Onboarding Tool for Startups. If you’re a startup – you’ll go for the one that claims to understand startups. Excluding unqualified customers may mean your MRR may take a hit initially, but it will also develop a much stronger and loyal customer base for long-term growth. Which one would you buy from?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. Get your free copy of The Sales Handbook. Keep in mind, as your business matures from startup to scale-up, your sales strategy will need to evolve too. 8 steps to develop a winning sales strategy. Want more advice like this?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. When not writing his sales handbook, he’s been overseeing the change from Close.io We’re not really a startup anymore. to Close.com.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

To help codify his learnings throughout those experiences and share the most repeatable frameworks, he’s published the High Growth Handbook , available from Stripe Press on Tuesday, July 17. Congratulations on the High Growth Handbook. The only good generic startup advice is that there’s no good generic startup advice.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. In product development, the type of evidence we rely on to build our products can make or break our strategy. Hello, all you product-loving folks! Let's Break the Cycle Together!

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 1, 2020

They emerge as ideas as I consider the best approach to solving a problem, or the best process for handling a particular part of the product development cycle, or simply from learning something brand new in the course of my work. Strunk & White's handbook entitled The Elements of Style has been my biggest inspiration for writing prose well.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Download The Growth Handbook. Sales: Be able to route prospects to our self-service flow or the most appropriate team within Sales, e.g. startups, SMB, MME, based on well-defined customer segments. At Intercom, we have complemented market-based segments with needs-based personas to inform product development, packaging, and pricing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

For Bangaly, you start with the fundamental customer experience – thinking through how you develop customers’ first awareness of your business, encourage their first purchase, and ultimately grow long-term engagement and monetization. This is episode eight of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

Develop skills and keep practising. Be savvy at developing our networks. Neither should the vision be delivered and launched after years in development. Being a Product Manager can be very challenging and some days you may wonder if it is all worth it. Realise that even though you want to succeed the cost is too high.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 13, 2020

We highly recommend this book as it can serve as your handbook for every step of PM recruiting. One way to do this is by helping a startup evolve their product over time. But they could be meaningful at smaller businesses like a Series A or B startup. Develop your brand. And inversely, startups will hire close to summer.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

The Lean Product Playbook is billed as “the missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love.” If you’re adopting lean thinking, this is the handbook for you. Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationships helps you develop the “soft skills” that will get your product delivered.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Written by one of the founders of Basecamp, Shape Up is for product development teams who struggle to ship. How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback. by Dan Olsen. Most new products fail.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

He saw in it what he felt like growth had been 10 years ago, which was this thing that many startups were trying to do with very little structure or framework. Ultimately, community-building is about developing leaders. They want to help teach other people about what they’ve developed and use the tool for.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

This week we released The Growth Handbook , a collection of tested frameworks and invaluable lessons to help steer your company’s trajectory up and to the right. That’s an idea developed in one of your most famous essays, “The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

This week we released The Growth Handbook , a collection of tested frameworks and invaluable lessons to help steer your company’s trajectory up and to the right. That’s an idea developed in one of your most famous essays, “The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs.”

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

Chances are if you’re an engineer or product manager who works on anything even somewhat related to continuous delivery, Jez Humble wrote your handbook. This co-author of the Jolt award-winning Continuous Delivery also made hefty contributions to both Lean Enterprise and The DevOps Handbook. Or, “We do this thing called Agile.

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