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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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The Subscription Value Loop: A framework for growing consumer subscription businesses

Lenny Rachitsky

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. Companies like Canva, Grammarly, Figma, Notion, and Dropbox are excluded because they are considered B2B SaaS businesses since they have sales teams and sell to both prosumers and enterprises.

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

Userpilot

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. Plot summary. out of 5 stars.

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Best User Retention Tools & Software to Keep More Customers

Userpilot

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Providing more and more value over time, along a clearly-defined customer lifecycle journey – like this: The system you build to gain a greater efficiency in pushing your users down the user journey is called a flywheel. It makes sense.

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Customer Success Platform- An In-Depth Comparison of The Best Tools To Use In 2022

Userpilot

Customer success teams don’t have time to waste. Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 New tools must show their value fast. 2 – The best customer success software will be no-code.

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How Do I Become a Product Manager at IBM?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Best User Retention Tools to Keep More Customers

Userpilot

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Providing more and more value over time, along a clearly-defined customer lifecycle journey – like this: The system you build to gain a greater efficiency in pushing your users down the user journey is called a flywheel. It makes sense.