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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. Many successful startup founders also learn how to code.

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These 5 Coding Bootcamps Are Worth Considering

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. To fill growing demand for skilled developers, coding bootcamps began popping up in 2012. Course Report has followed the coding bootcamp industry since 2013. Career Karma’s Online Coding Bootcamp Guide for 2020.

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Product Analyst: Responsibilities, Skills, and Requirements

Userpilot

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

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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”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Better Product Internationalization With Localization Best Practices

The Product Coalition

For example, the code for certain areas of text doesn’t take into consideration the space needed for some languages, meaning more working hours must to go into fixing this. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand. Translatable texts?—?usually

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Sprint Planning Tips for Product Owners

Roman Pichler

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. Software development is an exciting but demanding profession. Unforeseen things can happen in software development including people falling ill and a server going down. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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Serve Fewer Markets. Win More Deals.

bpma ProductHub

Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. 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. Just remember to focus.