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Pre-Product Market Fit: Ten Great Books for Product People

The Product Coalition

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Poor questions yield little value. ?? It gives you a way to identify your value propositions to differentiate. ??????????? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

He also hosts a job board for product professionals and has created a GPT-4 chatbot, Lennybot, that is programmed to answer questions from Lenny’s newsletter and podcast. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar.

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BI vs. product analytics: Key differentiators

Mixpanel

However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. The relative strengths and weaknesses can be summarized as follows. Analysis depth vs. breadth. Implementation. Implementation.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Your MVP is Not the Minimum Product

ProductPlan

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. What is the Minimum Viable Product? First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago.

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New Feature Validation Framework For Product Managers

Userpilot

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. The process is also necessary to maintain the product-market fit.

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Technical Debt vs Product Managers

Ask Benny

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?