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

NextBigWhat

In the early days, the most important goal is to de-risk the market need for your product. There’s a really cool new technology on the block like GPT-3 or Flutter or whatever and you just HAVE to build something with it. Spending time cleaning up technical debt. Solution in search of a problem. Build it & they will come.

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We’re Thrilled to Welcome Ken Yarmosh as Partner

Modus Create

” – Patrick Sheridan, Cofounder & Managing Partner at Modus Create. Ken Yarmosh brings over 15 years of experience as both a startup executive and a technology thought leader. “In addition to his deep technical expertise, Ken is also a well-regarded thought leader in the app dev space. Welcome aboard Ken!

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

These female professionals define the future of technology, product and what it means to be a woman in product management. She told CNN , “You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Nir is also an active investor in habit-forming technologies. Kate has more than 20 years product management, leadership and marketing experience with the likes of Yahoo!

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

Instead, product managers come from many walks of life, including engineering, marketing, project management, or something completely unrelated. CEOs are responsible for strategy, finance, sales, marketing, growth, customer satisfaction, and more. The product management role entails such a wide range of skills and expertise.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

I’ve seen the difficulty of managing the hard side for rideshare first-hand, where drivers are the ones selling their time and effort in the market. For Uber, in any given market, so-called “Power Drivers” constitute 20% of the supply but create 60% of the trips. With that, the rideshare market was kicked off.