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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Leisa is responsible for building a better understanding of users and customers at Atlassian. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft. Get your tickets.

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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.” I saw the needs for UX research but we didn’t have a UI/UX team. My 3 Biggest Takeaways?—?Being They do whatever needs to be done.

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How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

ProductPlan

CEOs are responsible for strategy, finance, sales, marketing, growth, customer satisfaction, and more. Compared to a candidate that only boasts a Bachelor’s Degree or has a Masters in a technical field, an MBA shows that you mean business… literally. The post How Does an MBA Fit into your Product Management Career?

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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. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow. Do some user research. Make some mockups.

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

Andrew Chen

.” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For social networks, these are often the content creators that generate the media everyone consumes. This the “Hard Side” of your network.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019. Thanks, Andrew.

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

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019.