Exercises Software Engineering Startups 
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.
Mind the Product
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
It’s also not a natural progression from a specific academic discipline such as a career in law, medicine, or software engineering and a lack of opportunities begets a lack of candidates. This has also been my experience when visiting universities to speak to students about Product Management over the last year. Affordability.
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Modus Create
APRIL 5, 2021
There was no way I could make a hash map or binary search tree in a week (sorry Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and Google), but thankfully a small coding exercise in HTML/CSS/JS got the job done. If I wanted to go back to my startup, pursue product management, or fly to the moon after my internship, Pat was totally fine with my decision.
Product Talk
AUGUST 8, 2018
After exploring the distinct perspectives on your team, use the exercise described in this video to create a shared map. This is one of the most powerful exercises I’ve come across for quickly getting to a shared understanding. We expect product managers to manage stakeholders, designers to design, and software engineers to write code.
Product Talk
DECEMBER 18, 2024
I started my career as a software engineer. I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. When I say product team, I mean product managers, designers, software engineers. Photo credit: Y Oslo Teresa Torres: Good morning.
UX Planet
MARCH 15, 2025
For example, my partner is a software engineer who works at early stage creative tooling startups but can work any part of the stack. I have another friend who is a UX Researcher who focuses on developer advocacy for B2B software but isnt tied to a particular industry. And I learned there were lots of ways to niche down.
The Product Coalition
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
You somehow have to bring together a rowdy bunch of tech professionals (data scientists, UX and UI designers , software engineers, etc) and make a valuable and functional product happen. You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO.
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