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Minimum Viable or Minimum Delightful Product?

ProductCraft Debates

Minimum viable product is like the gift that keeps on giving: every product person has an opinion about it, Medium is full of writing about it, and as you read this product teams everywhere are hotly debating whether theirs is appropriate to ship. But MVP is slowly making way to new ideas, and acronyms. And. The post Minimum Viable or Minimum Delightful Product?

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Mentoring 101.

Ask Benny

Step by step product management mentoring. In Mentoring Thinking I explained why it’s good to become a mentor. This time as a special tribute to Product League , a product management mentoring program run by volunteering product managers contributing to the community, I am giving tips on how to approach your mentoring. While I am referring mostly to product management mentoring, most of the advice is relevant for any type of mentoring.

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Better Practices for Building Integrations

Amplitude

Let’s talk a bit about the purpose of an integration. A good integration provides benefits to both companies involved. It doesn’t make sense for you to come to me and say, “I want to scrape all of your data and serve it within my app” unless there is some sort of benefit for me. I’d only do this if you can combine my data with some other data and show something interesting.

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Building your work stamina as a Product Manager

The Product Coalition

As a product manager, you are on call all the time for the product that you manage. How do you manage your work stamina and make sure you don’t feel overwhelmed? This past March, I moved on from my role at Shopkick to Brilliant Home Technologies, and have entered a new phase in my career. Being part of a 30-person startup where you are the only product manager is a change in itself.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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7 Horrible Things to Say to Executive Stakeholders

ProductPlan

Your executive stakeholders have life-and-death power over your products. In most companies, they have the final vote about which product initiatives get the green light and budget to move forward, which products to kill, and whether a product in the final stages of development is ready for launch or needs more work. Which is why communicating with executive stakeholders is an art form you need to master if you hope to be a successful product manager.

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Sales for Non-Salespeople: Understanding Sales Language

TSIA

TSIA Expand Selling research is designed to help our member companies grow revenue from their existing customers. However, this can’t happen without effective collaboration between Sales and Services, which means that there needs to be some shared understanding between these two functions. To help you improve cross-functional collaboration, I’m going to provide some insight into the language and world of Sales so that the non-salespeople within your organization can better understand

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7 Ways dscout Gets You from Questions to Insights Faster

dscout People Nerds

Shave weeks off your recruiting and analysis timelines. Here’s how dscout can help you find the right people for your study, and surface the right insights from their responses.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills. Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. This was a big moment for me, and the result of a long relationship that began a decade ago, when Horowitz Andreessen Angel Fund funded a (now defunct) startup I had co-founded.

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How to Leverage the Voice of Your Customers in an Acquisition

Gainsight

I am proud to have been on the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) team that helped bring Aptrinsic to Gainsight. The acquisition serves a need that we heard loud and clear from the market, and aligns to my own tactical experiences helping to scale a Customer Success organization. I transitioned into an M&A role at Gainsight five months ago. Before that, I spent three years on our Business Operations team.

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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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OKRs for Product Management

BrainMates

As November begins, it’s a great time to start the planning process for the next year. When you reflect on this year past, are you thinking about your successful achievements? Or are you frustrated that yet another busy year has passed and you’ve not achieved what you wanted to? One thing is for certain – we need to find methods of planning that are fast, adaptable to change, and empower entire teams to solve problems with autonomy.