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Common technical hiccups in your product analytics that are easy to spot

Mixpanel

You can spend all the time in the world devising a thoughtful, nuanced analytics strategy for your product analytics, but if your event tracking isn’t set up behind the scenes just how you need it, some (or all) of your data might be rendered far less helpful than you’d like. So why could that happen from a technical standpoint?

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We’re Thrilled to Welcome Ken Yarmosh as Partner

Modus Create

Ken is a leading figure in the world of product strategy, application design, development, and post-launch growth. ” – Patrick Sheridan, Cofounder & Managing Partner at Modus Create. “In addition to his deep technical expertise, Ken is also a well-regarded thought leader in the app dev space.

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

The Product Coalition

He considered product managers to be on a spectrum from “librarian” who is focused on facilitating communication and coordination to “poet” who formulates product strategy based on customer insights. He hired a librarian, hoping to make the team more organized and disciplined.

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

That’s because they are responsible for so many different aspects of the product’s strategy and execution. CEOs are responsible for strategy, finance, sales, marketing, growth, customer satisfaction, and more. Product managers are sometimes referred to as CEO of their product (usually by themselves of other product managers).

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. On the one hand, as the CEO, you have to design, build and nurture the product team and help them drive product strategy and goal alignment. A Good CEO Knows When to Ask for Help. Are you a product manager?

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Always implement analytics as part of feature development. Here’s why.

Mixpanel

But different companies have different strategies for how and when they update their analytics implementations. Engineers are technical. They tend to process technical information better than less formal information, and that’s where analytics comes in. Product analytics is an ongoing effort.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

CEO/cofounder Drew Houston’s made a very helpful presentation describing his journey towards referral programs, and the general trajectory was the following: First, do all the things you’re “supposed” to do. You’ll need some kind of ROI metric to drive the strategy of the referral program. The Payback.