Thu.Jan 11, 2018

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Starting at a New Company as a PM

The Product Guy

Guest Post by: Jen Hau (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Ladislav Bartos]. Setting Yourself Up For Success. Product managers tend to be maximizers – always looking for the best possible choices and outcomes for their product. It’s no wonder then that product managers also tend to apply the same outlook to their own careers, often wondering whether there is another company or role that would be more optimal than the current.

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How do you Build a Million-Dollar Product?

Mind the Product

I am a product manager. I’ve been one for over a decade, and I absolutely love it! Building new products, and building them from scratch gives me a huge boost! Interestingly a few of these products have crossed the million-dollar mark; so I wanted to share a few of my secret mantras that can help you get your next million dollars. The “easiest” part of building a product is building the product.

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We Studied 100 Mentor-Mentee Matches — Here’s What Makes Mentorship Work

First Round Review

Whitnie Narcisse runs First Round's Mentorship Program and has learned exactly what it takes to make mentor-mentee relationships truly transformative.

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How to Prepare Your Foreign Product for a Launch in the US: The Power of Qualitative Data

Generation Focus

The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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Goals & Non-Goals

Clever PM

One of the most important part of our jobs as Product Managers is setting goals — goals for ourselves, goals for our teams, and goals for our products. Goals are important — they set the North Star for us to know where we’re going, why we’re going there, and how we know whether or not […].

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(Managed) Lip Service: How to Recognize It and What to Do About It

TSIA

Congratulations! You are a managed services (MS) contributor and leader in a hardware or software original equipment manufacturer (OEM). You’ve been struggling with your company’s love/hate/embrace/ignore approach towards MS in the past. You’ve had your share of successes and failures acting as a change agent for your business and sometimes wondered if you were alone, if it was worth it, and if the business was ever going to realize its full potential.

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How to Prepare Your Foreign Product for a Launch in the US: The Power of Qualitative Data

Generation Focus

The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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Don't Let Your North Star Metric Deceive You

Brian Balfour

We’ve all heard the rallying cry of the “One Metric That Matters”. Choose your north star and focus. Grow 7% week over week. If you grow daily active users (DAUs), the rest will follow. But blindly buying into the concept of the one metric that matters (OMTM) is a fatal oversimplification. In a recent essay , Casey Winters, formerly Growth at Pinterest, says: “The search for one key metric for a complex ecosystem like Pinterest over-simplifies how the ecosystem works and prevents anyone from foc

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How to Prepare Your Foreign Product for a Launch in the US: The Power of Qualitative Data

Generation Focus

,The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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How to Prepare Your Foreign Product for a Launch in the US: The Power of Qualitative Data

Generation Focus

The United States is a great place to market products. The massive marketplace is a virtual candy shop for new ideas and the plentiful advertising possibilities make it a haven for new businesses. People in the US are always looking for the next best thing on the market, which gives you a hungry audience ready to accept your new innovation. On top of that, the US makes it easy to sell online and the convenience of doing business on the web may cut down on overhead costs.