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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies?

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How to Create a Product Vision That Energizes Stakeholders

Product Management University

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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How to Become a Startup Product Manager without Experience

The Product HQ

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. That said, while startup product managers are in demand, many prospective professionals still have difficulty figuring out how to embark on this career path. percent for a corporation.

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How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups

Product Talk

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

Lenny Rachitsky

To change Twitter’s product culture, Kayvon also focused on building alignment at the leadership level, telling a compelling vision and strategy story repeatedly, hiring entrepreneurial founders through acquihires to take big bets, and identifying who was “on the wagon” or “off the wagon.”

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An Organic Farm Startup Onboarding Strategy

The Product Coalition

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. In the first meeting, I was assured that clarity on goal, strategy, the partnership was missing. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy?

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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. Of course, in the process, the vision might be changed or refined, but it most likely wouldn’t be reinvented altogether. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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