Exercises Startups Technical Advisors 
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Unfortunately, there were none. This discouraged her slightly.
People-First Product Leadership
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
I am leveraging my product background in both coaching and advising AI-driven startups. Network Persistently : I stayed in touch with a startup recruiter for six months before landing my first PM-adjacent role. Initiatives like the lunch-and-learn sessions with technical teams helped me bridge gaps and drive innovation.
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Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them.
The Product Coalition
MAY 11, 2022
Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue.
The Product Coalition
MAY 25, 2021
Bevy’s product was unintentionally incubated through a sister organization, Startup Grind. Startup Grind is a global community that helps to inform, support, and bring together entrepreneurs through local chapters and events. Startup Grind created a product to facilitate and manage the Startup Grind community.
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 27, 2013
In many ways the hardest part of design is the prioritization exercise that requires determining exactly what is above the line for the next release. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 12, 2018
He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I stuck around for another year as an advisor, so I really saw extreme growth in both of those cases. In the book, you say that org structure is really an exercise in pragmatism.
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