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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. In recent years, venture capitalist (VC) investments for domestic businesses have grown 8 times larger than it was in 2013. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Established year.

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Learnings from London: How to build a billion dollar app

Mind the Product

This week in our Learnings from London series, we turn our attention to #mtpcon London 2013 where George Berkowski, former Head of Product at hit startup Hailo, led a session on the main stage to inspire us on how feasible it is to build a billion-dollar app! [.]

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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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Leveraging Data-Driven Insights: A Guide for Effective Product Decision-Making

The Product Coalition

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster. The journey from data to insights is an empowering transformation that will undoubtedly define the future of product management. References : Davenport, T. Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities. Harvard Business Press. Croll, A., & Yoskovitz, B.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

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Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs • Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups • Vanta —Automate compliance. Since its launch in 2013, Canva has grown to over 150 million monthly users in more than 190 countries, generating $2.3