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What No One Tells You bout Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. It’s important for an early-stage startup with limited resources.

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H.O.M.E: Entertainment – when all the world’s a stage

Intercom, Inc.

Mark O’Connell, a non-fiction writer based in Dublin, has the distinctive experience of debuting his second book in the middle of an outbreak that has kept him from traveling to promote it. The experience has led Mark to question whether that amount of travel – and its impact on the environment – is really necessary?

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How customer support can keep up with customer expectations

Intercom, Inc.

The first sign that the thieves were on the move came when Tristan, CEO of a startup accelerator, was contacted by his bank, Monzo , through their app. Tristan received an automated transaction message: his credit card was just used at a convenience store 20 mins away! The rise of messaging.

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Connect and conquer ? build your brand by staging events

Intercom, Inc.

Of all the ways to get your message into the world, staging events might not seem like the most efficient or scalable. Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you. That’s an inherent risk many startups don’t take, but we took it and it works. When resources are low, impact is key.

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Pivoting a Startup with User Research

Basel Fakhoury

After a year and half, we finally admitted that the mobile travel app we were working on wasn’t providing enough value and we had to shut it down. three broke startup founders (without a startup)?—?were Basel Fakhoury “Well… what now?” “Uh…I Uh…I guess we start brainstorming new ideas.” “Ugh… Ugh… Alright.”

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One year after launching a16z Games Fund One – here’s the deck

Andrew Chen

and got many nice messages from many of you. during my travel. Everyone has a startup mindset we all act like owners and work without clear directives. I published this announcement earlier on social media (follow @andrewchen !) Thank you so much. Hopefully I’ll have plenty of time to write and tweet (err.

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Building a long tail of evergreen content

Intercom, Inc.

Lots of startups approach content production as something that can be done in the founders’ “spare time” – at weekends or evenings. What messages should I send to new customers? 5 simple messages to engage your customers. Just because you can publish to the world for free, doesn’t mean content is free.

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