Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2017

My heart is heavy as I write this article; my father passed away a few days ago.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. So why would you want to outsource anything? Doesn’t outsourcing come with a lot of headaches just for a bit of saving? As with anything complex, it depends. Outsourcing: Why and When? Are there enough skilled developers at your location?

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The Product Guy

JULY 10, 2017

Nominate a great product manager you know today @ [link] ! Remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel @ [link]. Thank you to everyone who made it to our latest roundtable meet-up of The Product Group at iHeartMedia , with food and drinks sponsored by People10 , as well as to our other sponsors, Yext , BKLYN and many more. Over the course of the night a few of the highlights were… Featured Product: Troops exploring the product, its challenges and successes, from weekly retrospectives to m

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Andrew Chen

JULY 10, 2017

Readers, As you can tell, I’ve been a bit more active writing in the last few months. I wanted to do a quick roundup of my essays over the last year, in case you’ve missed any of them. I’ve published a number of guest essays and original writing on topics like growth metrics, consumer psych, the startup ecosystem in the Bay Area, push notifications, and much more.

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ProductBoard

JULY 10, 2017

Anand Subramani shares hard-earned product wisdom At the latest San Francisco Fintech Devs & PMs meetup , Anand Subramani shared some wise words based on years of experience working in product at Dropbox and Zynga, leading up to his current role as Product Lead at Gusto : Subramani’s point is that good ideas can come from anywhere, and it’s up to us as product managers to equip our colleagues to think like PMs.

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dscout People Nerds

JULY 10, 2017

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Tyner Blain

JULY 10, 2017

You know you’re a product manager when this image causes more than a chuckle. A few random thoughts inspired by this Rorschach test of product management concepts from sunk cost fallacy to intentionality. Hanlon’s Razor. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” ( wikipedia ). This was my immediate reaction when my colleague Dennis Stevens sent me this, with the comment ‘This has to be useful in a product management presentation.&#

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 10, 2017

To win more customers, Sprint needs a better network. Image Credit: Mike Mozart. Being a product manager who works in the highly competitive wireless market has got to be a struggle every day. There are not a lot of players in this market, in the U.S. there really is just AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. However, each of these companies is always looking for ways to steal market share from the other firms.

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