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Essential Startup Product Manager Skills

The Product HQ

Product managers who work at startups have their work cut out for them. Nowadays, sharpening your startup product manager skills has become more of a priority than they have ever been. Based on startup statistics shared by Embroker , around 90% of startups fail. This is crucial for several reasons.

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? It’s almost done.

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Track competitors and emerging trends with Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine

Roy Madden

The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, called Leo, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time. Meet Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine. Feedly’s AI Engine (Leo) automatically tags key market intelligence concepts. Market Intelligence.

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Lessons from launching SPEEDRUN, the Games x Tech startup accelerator

Andrew Chen

We target startups at the very earliest stages of development, often teams without products or metrics. These are universal, but for our sector of Games x Tech, we noted a few concrete problems: There’s not really a startup community within Games x Tech. And also, founders are founders.

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What Does a Software Product Manager Do?

The Product HQ

In any case, building great software requires the software product manager to switch between all their ideation, strategy, and feature implementation roles at the same time. Let’s not forget that software product managers need to keep the product team, scrum team, engineering team, and development team in check.

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How startups die from their addiction to paid marketing

Andrew Chen

Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. A familiar story: New product launches. The product is low freq – gotta spend to grow.

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490: Product Process: Fourth of Seven Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Product Development Processes There are numerous product development processes and methodologies covered in the New Products Process knowledge area. Development: Designing, prototyping, and preparing for the product launch.