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Top 11 Female Product Management Influencers to watch in 2022

Userpilot

Her company, Produx Labs, provides product management training. She advises executives around the world regarding product management. Through the Product Talk Academy, she has trained over 8,500 product people in discovery skills. Andrea Saez – Writer, Speaker, Advisor | Sr PMM @ Product School.

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Announcing Pietra and a16z — my first ex-Uber investment!

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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Build Strong Product Teams by Hiring Graduates

Mind the Product

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. Starting sales from scratch.

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Announcing Pietra and a16z — my first ex-Uber investment!

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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5 Best Design and Innovation Consulting Firms to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Design thinking companies aim to understand users’ pain points before developing a technically feasible solution that addresses their needs.

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Five Under-Appreciated Aspects of Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that