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Serve Fewer Markets. Win More Deals.

bpma ProductHub

The sales team is providing feedback and advising that the product is missing features preventing them from penetrating market A, and if only they had those features, they could be very successful selling. Scenario two – startup has a grand idea. In both scenarios, companies should not expand too quickly into new markets.

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

Alchemer Mobile

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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The Making of Product Managers: Negar’s Story

The Product Coalition

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Unfortunately, there were none. This discouraged her slightly.

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Build Strong Product Teams by Hiring Graduates

Mind the Product

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them.

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How Software Products are Created in Test Kitchens

The Product Coalition

Bevy’s product was unintentionally incubated through a sister organization, Startup Grind. Startup Grind is a global community that helps to inform, support, and bring together entrepreneurs through local chapters and events. Startup Grind created a product to facilitate and manage the Startup Grind community.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue.

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What is Product Management?

Sachin Rekhi

In many ways the hardest part of design is the prioritization exercise that requires determining exactly what is above the line for the next release. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.