PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

We talk to Divya Dhar an Exponent alumni, on her diverse journey from being a doctor to founding non-profits and most recently a stint in product management. Q: Could you talk a little bit about your transition from a doctor to a n entrepreneur and a product manager? Hence, every action should lead to positive impact.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An MBA program, much like a product management job description, covers a broad swath of topics. The product management role entails such a wide range of skills and expertise.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

So you gave them anonymous chat and positioned it in the app where it can’t possibly go unnoticed. 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.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

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. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You can find many more examples here.

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Indicative

JUNE 18, 2021

Indicative CEO Jeremy Levy and Snowplow cofounder and CEO Alex Dean took on this topic in a recent webinar. That’s why Alex and cofounder Yali built Snowplow around first-party data collection using an open-source platform. It’s a positive feedback loop where data collection actively improves the experience of its subjects.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

release becomes far more manageable. A larger lesson here is that taking user feedback at face value will only get you so far—even when you have so few users that you can comfortably manage speaking to each one personally. What happens next is that your official app launch pulls in more downloads than you ever could have imagined.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For workplace apps, these are the managers that author and create documents and projects, and who invite coworkers to participate. Focus on attracting content creators to a new video platform, or sellers to a new marketplace, or the project managers inside a company to a new workplace app. The other side of the network will follow.

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