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Building Products for Positive Social Impact with Divya Dhar

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

I started by doing an MBA, during which I met my cofounder and started our health tech company, Seratis. Hence, every action should lead to positive impact. That means the goal of your company should maximize for positive impact. The hardest part was studying for the technical round at Google.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

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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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

From here, it’s easy to assume what you’ve put out into the world is delivering high value to your users right out the gate—but you might also just be seeing a positive initial response to things like your icon, marketing/branding, and mission, without your new users really engaging with your app’s features at all.

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

Compared to a candidate that only boasts a Bachelor’s Degree or has a Masters in a technical field, an MBA shows that you mean business… literally. For some hiring managers, it’s a non-negotiable prerequisite for leadership positions. It can reposition you and make you a more attractive candidate for a position.

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

Andrew Chen

Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. Usually the Hard Side will continue to use Airbnb or TikTok because that’s where the demand is, and thus, are locked into the positive network effects on those platforms.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

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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Behavioral Data and the Modern Data Stack: Privacy, Building Your Stack, and What’s Next

Indicative

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.