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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. They’re generally technical. Engineering is really hard and valuable.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately.

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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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What is the Average B2B Product Manager Salary? 

The Product HQ

Therefore, it’s advisable to filter your industry when looking for an exact yearly salary figure. Other factors that play a role are location and technical expertise. That’s why it’s best to check specific employee reviews for different companies too. The difference comes when the industry requires a lot of technical knowledge.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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Better Product Internationalization With Localization Best Practices

The Product Coalition

Start on the right foot By factoring in a localization process from the get-go and choosing the right translation software and vendor, translations can be automated and accelerated on a technical level. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand.