Mon.Apr 02, 2018

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Don’t let fear of feedback undermine your technical design

Intercom, Inc.

Let’s begin with a hypothetical scenario: You’ve spent the last two weeks perfecting your pitch. You’ve thought through every possible objection anyone might have to your plan. You’ve carefully justified your choice of programming language and why you just need to use a complex gossip protocol to build the system – it is theoretically the “best” language, but it’ll be tricky to get right (and yet really fun to build).

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Here's How Women and Startups Can Accelerate Pay Equity in Tech

First Round Review

Over two decades, Jana Rich has seen hundreds of compensation negotiations, including patterns in who wins, who loses and why. Read on to learn how startups can begin with good comp hygiene early on, and what candidates can do to be empowered and equipped to get the comp they deserve.

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Product Manager: To be Ken Norton for a Day

The Product Guy

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. In the Now. > Whose shoes would you like to walk in for a day? Why? I would love to spend a day in Ken Norton’s shoes. I love the way he promotes Product Management, but I also love the idea of his job- helping startups with their products. Google Ventures gets to invest and work with some of the most exciting companies in the world.

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How to Discover Opportunities for New IoT Products

Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

Companies are embracing the promise of the Internet of Things for disruption and growth. They see it as an opportunity to leap-frog the competition and significantly grow their revenues. And yet, many companies are failing and growing disillusioned. So how can Product Leaders leverage IoT to discover opportunities that can take their company to the next […].

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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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Becoming a Product Manager: The Road Less Traveled

The Product Coalition

Product Management can be an intimidating role. It takes someone that is equally skilled at navigating people as they are with navigating technology. Traditionally Product Managers come from a design or development background, find they are good with people, and evolve their role into a Product Manager position. As such a lot of the information for new or aspiring Product Managers assume they have a certain level of technical knowledge.

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Can Product Managers Have Their Meal- Kit And Eat It Too?

The Accidental Product Manager

Meal-kits are hot stuff, but is there room for more players in this market? Image Credit: Kurman Communications, Inc. I’m pretty sure that we’ve all felt this way at some point in time. We come home from work, we’re exhausted and then all of sudden we realize that we have nothing planned for dinner. If you are like me, this is the evening that you end up calling out for pizza or grabbing something from McDonalds.

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How do organizations build tech products that customers love?

DISQO

How do today’s most successful tech companies—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla—design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than almost every other company. In his book, INSPIRED , technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discove

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How do organizations build tech products that customers love?

DISQO

How do today’s most successful tech companies—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla—design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than almost every other company. In his book, INSPIRED , technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discove

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How do organizations build tech products that customers love?

DISQO

How do today’s most successful tech companies—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla—design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than almost every other company. In his book, INSPIRED , technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discove

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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.