Tue.Dec 22, 2020

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Practice Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders

Mind the Product

Product managers who have never worked with founders often find their first experience a bit jarring. “f**ked” and “crazy” have definitely been thrown around. But “crazy” is a label we use when we don’t understand. What makes working with founders challenging and different from other executives? What do founders do? Founders at early stage startups [.].

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The Top Mobile App Trends from 2020

Alchemer Mobile

COVID-19 dramatically impacted how we live, learn, work, socialize, shop, and entertain ourselves. It has also changed how we interact with our favorite stores, restaurants, and service providers – even our healthcare providers. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t had a virtual doctor appointment, ordered groceries online, or used curbside pickup in 2020.

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What we learned from Scale in 2020

Intercom, Inc.

This year, we launched Scale , a new content strand focusing on how industry leaders are propelling their companies forward by keeping their customers front and center. . When we created Scale, we had no idea what the year would hold in store; we simply knew that investing in long-term customer relationships was the key to success. As it happens, 2020 has only reinforced this, by highlighting again and again the importance of strong customer relationships as the structural foundation on which so

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Practical Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders

Mind the Product

Product managers who have never worked with founders often find their first experience a bit jarring. “f**ked” and “crazy” have definitely been thrown around. But “crazy” is a label we use when we don’t understand. What makes working with founders challenging and different from other executives? What do founders do? Founders at early stage startups [.].

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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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Fresh Off IPO, Upstart’s CEO Shares Why the Startup Isn’t a Typical Success Story

First Round Review

Upstart was founded by three individuals who barely knew each other, was forced to make a company-saving pivot, and flew under the radar in Silicon Valley for the past 8 years — but this once-scrappy startup just went public. CEO Dave Girouard sketches out the story of how Upstart got built, detailing all of the bumpy starts and lucky breaks along the winding journey to IPO.

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An Introductory Guide to Portfolio Product Management (PPM)

ProductCraft

Over the last two decades, we’ve observed a puzzling paradox: Great product managers exist at both market-leading and market-losing companies. So what else does it take to build a high-performing product organization that propels companies up and away? What’s the secret sauce beyond having the best talent and great product strategy? The answer lies in.

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A recap of Productboard’s 2020 product launches through remakes of classic holiday songs

ProductBoard

“We bring you some deep user insights” Inspired by: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” Santa heard you’ve been extra “nice” this year and made Productboard’s Salesforce integration even better. Product managers can choose which companies or accounts to import to Productboard with their associated attributes.

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Awkward Silences 2020 Year In Review

UserInterviews

This wasn’t the year of research we planned for. Our hosts Erin May and JH Forster review the lessons, insights, and guests from 2020 that stuck with them.

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2020 Centercode Content Roundup

Centercode

You can say what you like about 2020, but you can’t say we didn’t learn a lot. This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), to how to dress (hello sweatpants, my old friend). Our team was right there, too, and we’re proud to say that we continued not only to support our customers with our platform and services, but we supported testing prof

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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How to Change the World Without Getting Burnt-Out with Shannon Lucas

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Welcome to another episode of Enterprise Product Leadership. My fantastic guest today is Shannon Lucas, former Executive Vice President at Ericsson and Co-CEO at Catalyst Constellations. She is also a co-author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book, Move Fast. Break S**t. Burn Out.: The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes […].

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Fresh Off IPO, Upstart’s CEO Shares Why the Startup Isn’t a Typical Success Story

First Round Review

Upstart was founded by three individuals who barely knew each other, was forced to make a company-saving pivot, and flew under the radar in Silicon Valley for the past 8 years — but this once-scrappy startup just went public. CEO Dave Girouard sketches out the story of how Upstart got built, detailing all of the bumpy starts and lucky breaks along the winding journey to IPO.

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2020 Centercode Content Roundup

Centercode

You can say what you like about 2020, but you can’t say we didn’t learn a lot. This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?

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Release Notes: October/November 2020

Amplitude

New In Analytics. Journeys. Available to customers on the Scholarship, Growth, and Enterprise plans. Digital products have moved beyond the linear, session-based experiences product analytics was designed for. In order to build the next generation of products, teams need to analyze the big picture of their customer journey and individual user behaviors simultaneously.

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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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Everything You Need to Know About Practicing Telemedicine In Florida

Arkenea

The world is witnessing never seen before adoption rates for telemedicine. Fuelled by the global healthcare emergency and changing user preferences for healthcare delivery, telemedicine has gone mainstream all over the US and Florida is no exception. However, there are numerous legal concerns and regulatory hurdles that need to be overcome before you can get […].

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Upstart just went public — CEO Dave Girouard shares why it isn’t a typical success story

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Dave Girouard, the CEO and co-founder of Upstart, an AI-powered lending platform that recently went public. Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business. Here at First Round, we first came to know Dave when we invested in Upstart’s seed round back in 2012, and we’ve found him to be one of the most tenacious and focused founders we’ve ever backed.

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Finding Startup Ideas and Building in Heavily-Regulated Spaces — Lessons from Cash App & Carbon Health

First Round Review

Ayo Omojola shares his lessons for going unreasonably deep when building products in heavily-regulated industries like healthcare and financial services with Carbon Health and Cash App.

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A Quick Guide to Product Discovery - 4 Product Discovery Methods

airfocus

The biggest issue for a product manager is building the RIGHT product. Let's take a closer look at product discovery and 4 product discovery methods.

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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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The Making of Modite Adventure

Modus Create

For our 2020 holiday game, we developed and released Modite Adventure, a combination action/adventure dungeon crawler. This game is the most complex video game we’ve ever made and was the work of countless hours of some heroes in our organization. In this article, we’ll go into some detail as to the whats, whys and explain how we built it. The title screen for our video game.