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

NextBigWhat

In the early days, the most important goal is to de-risk the market need for your product. Spending time cleaning up technical debt. Thinking you NEED to have a “suave/charismatic” business cofounder. (Can’t say I haven’t been guilty of these myself ). Solution in search of a problem. Build it & they will come.

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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. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.

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Women Succeeding in the World of Product Management

Product Management Unpacked

Today, she is the cofounder and CEO of Kit, a social recommendation platform where tastemakers share products they love. She is one of only a handful of African-American women ever to raise more than $1 million to grow a startup. Miranda Luna became a Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Azure at just 23 years old.

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We’re Thrilled to Welcome Ken Yarmosh as Partner

Modus Create

” – Patrick Sheridan, Cofounder & Managing Partner at Modus Create. Ken Yarmosh brings over 15 years of experience as both a startup executive and a technology thought leader. “In addition to his deep technical expertise, Ken is also a well-regarded thought leader in the app dev space. Welcome aboard Ken!

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. I’ve seen the difficulty of managing the hard side for rideshare first-hand, where drivers are the ones selling their time and effort in the market. With that, the rideshare market was kicked off.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

They have big advantages over paid marketing channels, in that you give your CAC to your users, who then spend it within your product, as opposed to handing it over to Google or Facebook. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s worth adding to complement other marketing efforts. The history of the referral program.