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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Unfortunately, there were none. This discouraged her slightly.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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From Product Manager to Partner: An Interview with Ashley Carroll

Amplitude

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! So I was exploring some ideas of my own and also meeting a lot of startups, typically in an advisory capacity.

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Summary: Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

Lenny Rachitsky

Gustaf Alströmer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator , where he has worked with over 600 startups. ” Motivations can be diverse: solving technical problems, proving oneself, having a grand mission, or simply wanting to be successful. If I drill down what makes companies fail, it’s quite simple.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager.

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Product Tours In 2021: The Ultimate Guide

Userpilot

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Using product tour software is a better decision. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Using the same example, imagine that you're going through the different tooltips in this rather basic product tour for project management software.

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Own your product management on-boarding

Ask Benny

If you are lucky, there is someone in the company that has thought about your on-boarding, but many times especially if this is a small startup, there isn’t. As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc.