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Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more

NextBigWhat

Top mistakes engineers make when they become founders. Spending time cleaning up technical debt. Thinking you NEED to have a “suave/charismatic” business cofounder. The post Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more appeared first on NextBigWhat.

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Common technical hiccups in your product analytics that are easy to spot

Mixpanel

The good news is that many technical quirks tend to follow certain patterns that can be easily spotted—even by non-engineers. Here are four technical hiccups associated with corrupt event tracking data, how to spot them, and what to do about them. So why could that happen from a technical standpoint? Event stuttering.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He also led product management at social networking pioneer Friendster, and was the cofounder and CEO of YourVersion, a TechCrunch award-winning personalized news startup. Get your tickets.

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

Today, she is the cofounder and CEO of Kit, a social recommendation platform where tastemakers share products they love. For Marie-Pierre Belanger, VP Digital Solutions Product Management at Pitney Bowes, this meant pursuing a Master’s degree in UI/X to complement her electrical engineering background.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. Here are four ways you can position yourself as the go-to engineer for everything product analytics—and simultaneously make yourself invaluable to both the product and engineering teams. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You’d be celebrated.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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A modular approach for integrating an analytics platform (like Mixpanel) into your iOS app

Mixpanel

And that makes it possible to get into all the benefits of a sophisticated platform like Mixpanel with little technical risk—even if for only a trial run and/or to use it alongside other tools like GA. But if you have hundreds of events and properties, that could amount to many engineering hours and thousands of lines of code.