PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

From a very young age, my goal has been to serve and develop people using science. I also founded a non-profit that inspires young people to end extreme poverty that grew to be the largest voice for youth on issues of international development nationally. The hardest part was studying for the technical round at Google.

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Mixpanel

MAY 19, 2022

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And that makes it possible to get into all the benefits of a sophisticated platform like Mixpanel with little technical risk—even if for only a trial run and/or to use it alongside other tools like GA. Here’s how you (or your app developer team) can do it. As a matter of principle, abstract-away your dependencies.

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Indicative

JUNE 18, 2021

Indicative CEO Jeremy Levy and Snowplow cofounder and CEO Alex Dean took on this topic in a recent webinar. That’s why Alex and cofounder Yali built Snowplow around first-party data collection using an open-source platform. Larger organizations are developing data platform teams, whose focus is on making sure the data is high-quality.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For app stores, these are the developers that actually create the products. For a more esoteric category, like Github, it’s helpful to bring on some prominent Open Source projects and key developers. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This is a very compelling story (especially if you’ve got only one or two engineers or developers on your team who may or may not include yourself). He’s also given technical interviews to 1,400 software engineers who have gone on to accept roles at Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, and other major Bay Area firms.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date. Their interest lies exclusively in technical mastery. You can find many more examples here. Next steps.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 21, 2021

SwiftUI is an incredible framework that allows for UI development at rates that are orders of magnitude above many UIKit approaches. He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Product Owners: How to get Your Development Team to Love you was a post from Daniel Elizalde with some relationship advice, product management style, via a ProductTank presentation from former Apple Product Manager and industry veteran Ron Lichty. How do product owners get their development teams to love them?

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Written by one of the founders of Basecamp, Shape Up is for product development teams who struggle to ship. Plenty of experts argue that anyone who wants to develop a skill, play an instrument, or lead their field should start early, focus intensely, and rack up as many hours of deliberate practice as possible. Buy it here.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

Apple Podcasts played a pivotal role in the development of the industry and remains the dominant app for listening. In order of descending audience sizes, these categories are: Media companies that have internal podcast departments , whose goals in podcasting can range from audience development to diversifying revenue.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

Apple Podcasts played a pivotal role in the development of the industry and remains the dominant app for listening. In order of descending audience sizes, these categories are: Media companies that have internal podcast departments , whose goals in podcasting can range from audience development to diversifying revenue.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 7, 2022

As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder.

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