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

NextBigWhat

Spending time cleaning up technical debt. Many engineers who become founders worked at a successful company with thousands++ users, so it’s tempting to think once you build something people will come – but most startups don’t have preexisting audiences so YOU have to build the audience. Build it & they will come.

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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. Get your tickets.

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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.

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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. Product management is a cross-functional discipline.

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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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Building Products for Positive Social Impact with Divya Dhar

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

I started by doing an MBA, during which I met my cofounder and started our health tech company, Seratis. Q: Is there a common thread between the startups you founded in the past? The hardest part was studying for the technical round at Google. This I believe is one of the central skill sets of a PM as well.