Thu.Feb 11, 2021

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How to Crack the Product Manager Career: Advice From Jackie Bavaro

Mind the Product

In this interactive AMA session for Prioritised members, Jackie Bavaro, author of Cracking the PM Career, shares what she knows about effectively managing your career in product. Watch the recording in its entirety or read on for the highlights, including: The Phases of a Product Career Making the Move From Director To VP What People [.]. Read More.

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How to Build an Invention Machine — 6 Lessons That Powered Amazon’s Success

First Round Review

Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.

Startups 143
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Building Great Product Teams: Brent Tworetzky Reveals Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Brent Shares Examples of Six Meaningful Lessons Learned as a Product Leader Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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How to Build an Invention Machine — 6 Lessons That Powered Amazon’s Success

First Round Review

Former Amazon execs Colin Bryar and Bill Carr helped build the "invention machine" that enabled the company to successfully launch everything from AWS to the Kindle. Here, they share granular advice and concrete takeaways for startups looking to alter their own trajectories.

Startups 136
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How To Get Promoted In Product Management

Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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How to pitch your Minimum Viable Product

The Product Coalition

How to Pitch Your Minimum Viable Product Just an amazing idea is not enough for investors. Check this the guide to find out how to pitch your MVP! When it comes to fundraising, it all starts with an idea. The reality is that startups are never rarely unique?—?most likely there are a bunch of people who are doing exactly the same. So, ‘just the idea’ isn’t what makes investors open their wallets?

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What To Do With a High Churn Rate

The Product Coalition

Most of the advice you’ll see in relation to building great digital products focuses on how to retain users. User/customer retention is often the lifeblood of a business, especially in the software spaces. If your product or service cannot keep the customers it attracts, it cannot grow. So what can we do when we have a high churn rate? First, we have to understand it… What Is a Churn Rate?

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5 Questions Wall Street Investors Should Ask SaaS CEOs

Gainsight

When public market investors aren’t busy going long or short on GameStop, they are bidding up cloud stocks to all-time highs. There has never been a better time to be a public software company. But in any frothy environment, you can find a mix of cream rising to the top—and dirt along for the ride. How do you identify the signal from the noise in cloud stocks?

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Product discovery best practices for product leaders – a discussion with Hope Gurion

ProductBoard

In a recent Productboard webinar, host Scott Baldwin welcomed Hope Gurion, founder of Fearless Product LLC and a coach to product leaders and teams looking to be more customer-centric and evidence-based. The subject of the chat was product discovery – what it is, why it matters, and what best practices product managers can employ to make it effective.

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Rev1 spots investment opportunities sooner while cutting research time in half

Roy Madden

Case Study. How a VC firm uses Feedly to keep a finger on the pulse of the startup ecosystem. Since we track market sectors, news about the latest funding rounds, and product launches, we have been able to identify new companies worth looking at through our Feedly Feeds. Before, we could’ve easily read right past it or missed it with all of the noise. “ Matt Chimes, Director of Rev1 Ventures.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Giving & Receiving Feedback Through User Research Reviews

dscout People Nerds

To grow as researchers, we need to seek and accept feedback from our peers. For that, we should take a page out of the designer’s playbook. .

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Digital Marketing: What does the profession demand?

Antwak Blog

With digitisation paving its position in every walk of life, marketing has seen a monumental shift in the manner in which it is practised. Digital marketers harness the power of the internet to realize their brand goals. The brand goals like building awareness, acquiring consumers and engaging with them on multiple digital platforms like Facebook, Google, Instagram are core to the business needs.

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7 Lessons Learned From Mentoring New UXRs

dscout People Nerds

You learn a lot teaching others. Here are 7 valuable lessons learned training junior researchers. .

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2020 Changed Your Customers: Here’s How to Win Them Over

Centercode

E-commerce had been trending steadily upward for years. Then the pandemic came along and did exactly what you’d expect a globally disruptive force to do: It changed everything very, very quickly. What happened exactly? The U.S. Department of Commerce reported a 30% increase in online spending from 2019 to 2020 (compared to the previous 13% increase year over year).

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Dark UI design tips: how to use color to deliver value at every touchpoint?

The Product Coalition

Is ‘Dark UIs are trendy in 2020’ factor enough to prefer a dark appearance over the light one? If so, you’ll have to prepare a bunch of excuses for the users. And, be sure, if you ruin the whole experience with the wrong colors, they’ll just leave without even asking you for change. Let’s try to understand what stands behind the idea of adding a dark theme to the mobile or web app?

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5 Reasons Modus Recruits from the Open-Source Community

Modus Create

Employees who exhibit a solid combination of technical expertise, soft management skills, and a willingness to proactively collaborate with other team members can be the ticket to a company’s growth, but that Goldilocks combination can be tough to find, especially now. It can be difficult to ascertain whether someone fits the bill on a Zoom interview, which makes knowing where to look for the right talent all the more important.

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Inside Amplitude’s Tech Stack: Our Product Management Software

Amplitude

At Amplitude, we think of our customers as a part of the team. So much so that it’s even one of our operating principles. As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! Over the years we’ve adopted a number of different tools to help us build great relationships with our customers and deliver high-quality experiences.

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Intercom on Product: the siren call of innovation

Intercom, Inc.

There’s a delicate balance any product strategy needs to master: On the one hand, to build a successful business, you need to design features that set your company apart — your core of innovation. On the other, no customer will sign up for a product if there isn’t a solid foundation on which to innovate on. But how do you strike that balance? And how do you get everyone on board?

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Your First Steps to Research Democratization: Obstacles + Opportunities

dscout People Nerds

Democratization is crucial—but you can do too much of it. Learn to strike that balance to give your stakeholders the tools they need to conduct good research. .