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Top mistakes made by Engineers-turned-Founders: Worry too much about scalability/fixing bugs.and more

NextBigWhat

Spend too much time building the product instead of talking to users. You don’t want to invest a ton of effort in your product before you are confident it’s something people will want. In fact, if customers are sticking around despite how buggy it is, that’s a good sign you’re making something they want.

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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. As they say—garbage in, garbage out. Event stuttering.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

UX design, branding, feature-set, nuanced differences in user perspectives, and a million other variables can impact (with varying levels of influence) whether our products get used or ignored. Understand the role of data with nuance. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products. But you’d be wrong.

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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.” You probably won’t get things right the first time and that’s ok. My 3 Biggest Takeaways?—?Being They do whatever needs to be done.

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

Women, like Kate Hare, are at the top of the field, shaping the products, brands and experiences that have become staples in our digital repertoires. Today, she is the cofounder and CEO of Kit, a social recommendation platform where tastemakers share products they love. Stories of success beg the question, “How do I get there?”.

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We’re Thrilled to Welcome Ken Yarmosh as Partner

Modus Create

His experience will supercharge our ability to deliver product-led growth to our clients. “Ken’s experience with native application development will expand on Modus’ traditional strengths in mobile-web and hybrid mobile development. ” – Patrick Sheridan, Cofounder & Managing Partner at Modus Create.