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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Lenny Rachitsky

Find 6 to 8 B2B customers, or 15 to 25 B2C customers, and make something they are willing to recommend to other people. Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. I do see a big divide between B2C and B2B/enterprise products, and therefore their product managers. And I almost never buy it.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. A good mix of attendees from B2B and B2C software technology companies. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. Ken Norton, Senior Operating Partner at Google Ventures. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. So I think that’s where B2C has a much higher level of impact than B2B.

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International Women’s Day: Reflections from female leaders in product & tech

Mixpanel

“I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.