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How to kick-off a new year (Product Leader edition)

The Product Coalition

A new year always feels like a good time to take stock and reset. This year especially. There is something about the new year and associated downtime that always compels me to reflect on the year that was, and fills me with optimism that I can be a better version of myself for the coming year. I’ve been thinking through my framework for kicking off a new year?

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The Product Decision Stack – Martin Eriksson

Mind the Product

Martin Eriksson – veteran product leader, and Mind the Product co-founder – presented his “Decision Stack” to ProductTank Lagos. It’s a way of connecting vision to action. Martin says the most common thing he hears from product people is the question “How do we know if we’re building the right thing?” – this fundamentally comes [.].

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5 Simple Tips and Tricks to Grow Your Online Business

The Product Coalition

Running an online business is easier than ever before; because of this, it’s also much more complicated than it used to be. The number of competitors is growing exponentially. So, if you want to expand your online venture, there are a few tips you should consider. Before you get started, take note of your current situation. Account for all the variables you need to keep an eye on.

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The Easiest Transition Into Product Management: 5 Factors

Product Management University

What role makes for the easiest transition into product management? The easiest transition into product management is from the pre-sales role. Why? You’re already doing 80% of the job. It just happens to be around existing products and features instead of new ones. Transition into Product Management – 5 Factors Coming From Pre-Sales. In a pre-sales role, you’re gathering business requirements from prospects in the exact same manner as you would from customers in a product management role.

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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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Estimation & Amdahl’s Law

The Product Coalition

Understanding the work done by Gene Amdahl in the field of parallel computing Photo by Mark König on Unsplash Let us take this opportunity to explore a theory (involving Amdahl’s Law) one needs to be mindful of before even wanting to turn estimates into facts in the future. Who is Mr Gene Amdahl? Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer scientist and primarily known as the brain behind Mainframe computers at IBM.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? It’s all about what you want to educate them on. Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Ultimate List of Customer Success Resources For 2021

Gainsight

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Bookmark this list and get through it bit by bit. It may seem daunting at first, but small daily rituals can lead to big results.

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TEI 316: Tools CPOs use – with Anup Yanamandra

Product Innovation Educators

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. It is a new year and this podcast is getting a new name. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. .

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CardBoard has an uptime of 99.99902% in 2020 (Even better than Slack!)

CardBoard

Like most of you, I returned to work this Monday morning (Jan 4th) only to find out that Slack was down. I found it difficult to catch up and communicate with my fellow colleagues. I had to think for a few minutes. Living in a time where remote work is heavily dependent, and with instant communication becoming necessary to keep businesses viable, so many questions arose.

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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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3 Important 2021 SEO Trends You Need to Know

The Product Coalition

[link] Search engine optimization (SEO) is an important part of growing your online business, blog, or eCommerce store. It helps you get in front of more eyes, which can generally lead to more potential leads and sales. As with seemingly every industry, the SEO space is constantly evolving and going through changes. A key to a good SEO strategy is knowing the trends in the space in being able to adapt and adjust in response.

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Business of Software is Hiring – Sales Executive

Business of Software Conference

Get started on a new career for 2021. Looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy making new connections and building relationships with a range of great people from across the globe? Then Business of Software might have just the opportunity for you… Find out more about the BoS Sales Executive role. About Business of Software. Business of Software curates high-quality learning & networking events for SaaS and software entrepreneurs and leaders.

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My 2021 personal growth hacks

The Product Coalition

My 2020 personal growth hacks Hacking personal growth was one of my goals for 2020. I wanted to be better, and excel in my ventures by enriching myself in different eras. This was a nice thing to ponder about… then came COVID-19. The COVID-19 disrupted many of our lives and created growth opportunities, and we can never let a good disruptive force go to waste, now can we?

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Product Operations or Public Relations?

ProductCraft

There’s no other way to start this piece than by simply saying it dawned on me that product operations professionals are to product managers what publicists are to their clientele. I get asked all the time how the PM role can best partner with product ops. This article highlights the value of having a strong. Read more » The post Product Operations or Public Relations?

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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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The First-Time Founder’s Guide to Learning Everything the Hard Way

First Round Review

Steve El-Hage picks his head up and shares his biggest lessons as a first-time founder from the 8-year, heads-down journey of building Drop.

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Data Management Do’s and Don’ts for 2021 & Beyond

Amplitude

Business decisions are rooted in data. If you’re deciding which customer segment to prioritize or which product feature to build next, running an analysis should be your first line of questioning. But if your team doesn’t follow strong data management practices—if your data is disorganized, inaccurate, or full of gaps—you can say goodbye to confidence in your business decisions.