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Summary: Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Airbnb)

Lenny Rachitsky

” Motivations can be diverse: solving technical problems, proving oneself, having a grand mission, or simply wanting to be successful. Lacking technical knowledge: Startups need technical founders who can build the first prototype. Engineering is really hard and valuable. They’re generally technical.

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How to be a Great Product Manager According to Experts at Dropbox, Stripe, and Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? Christy: All right. I am Christy Culp.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. Regular show and tells – aside from your standard product demos, encourage your engineers to show and tell the new tech they’re using in your product. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. In fact, our tests regularly failed.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.

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CX expert Bill Price on creating frictionless customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. All that information was transferred down to the person who called back.