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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. Get your tickets.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. The uncertainty of technical products.

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

Andrew Chen

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group. 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.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. Let’s time travel back 15 years ago, when there were no smartphones and the internet was accessed only through desktop computers.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. Let’s time travel back 15 years ago, when there were no smartphones and the internet was accessed only through desktop computers.