Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”. This opens up and demystifies these practices with definitions, examples, easy to understand diagrams, and suggestions for further reading.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. But when you’re building a product with lots of technical or business unknowns—something many startups and product teams are doing—this process breaks down. The uncertainty of technical products. Make some mockups.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I also covered project coordination before our technical program manager came on board and proposed to hire a QA/QE lead to make our team more quality-focused and our products more reliable. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research.

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Mixpanel

MAY 19, 2022

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. In this part of his talk, Rajnish talks about ‘core actions’ and ‘virtuous loops’ – a simple framework of sorts to understand user journey and gauge both the product and business […].

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

I started by doing an MBA, during which I met my cofounder and started our health tech company, Seratis. The hardest part was studying for the technical round at Google. I didn’t realize before that I also love being creative. Eventually, I decided to embark on a different journey where I could bring all of these together.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And that makes it possible to get into all the benefits of a sophisticated platform like Mixpanel with little technical risk—even if for only a trial run and/or to use it alongside other tools like GA. Here’s how you (or your app developer team) can do it. As a matter of principle, abstract-away your dependencies.

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Nulab

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Eugene Cheah, CTO & cofounder of Uilicious. In November, our Nulab Drinking Code meetup featured talks on advanced Docker concepts and scaling infrastructure. Our two invited speakers were: Florian Besser, Expert Software Engineer at Zuhlke Engineering. Talk 1: Advanced Docker Concepts.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. However, a seismic shift soon occurred when rival app Sidecar innovated in recruiting unlicensed, normal people as drivers on their platform.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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Mixpanel

JULY 26, 2022

Engineers are technical. They tend to process technical information better than less formal information, and that’s where analytics comes in. When engineers see the event definitions and metrics, it’s a technical way for them to better understand what the point of the feature is in the first place.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

The point is that some of these might be catchable by non-technical team members whose job it is to analyze the data, but a lot of cases could only ever be noticed by someone who understands how the implementation actually works on a technical level: an engineer like yourself. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 8, 2022

CEO/cofounder Drew Houston’s made a very helpful presentation describing his journey towards referral programs, and the general trajectory was the following: First, do all the things you’re “supposed” to do. Why did this make sense for them? They also tend to decline in importance over time.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Compared to a candidate that only boasts a Bachelor’s Degree or has a Masters in a technical field, an MBA shows that you mean business… literally. Whether it’s finding a cofounder, a future boss, employee, or somebody who knows somebody, this component of the MBA experience cannot be undersold.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Bain Public was of tremendous support toward those objectives" Virgile Ollivier, CoFounder & CEO. Paul and the team at Bain Public have helped us build our entire technical roadmap from the ground up. Are you a product manager? Startup founder? Whatever the case, let’s assume you’re the decision-maker behind your product.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 21, 2021

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. ” Buy it here. by Melissa Perri.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The panel was comprised of top industry experts from the technical, business, academic, and marketing expertise spheres. “We are incredibly proud to be recognized as a finalist in the 2020 SaaS Awards,” says Shinsuke Tabata, Nulab’s Cofounder and CMO.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The panel was comprised of top industry experts from the technical, business, academic, and marketing expertise spheres. “We are incredibly proud to be recognized as a finalist in the 2020 SaaS Awards,” says Shinsuke Tabata, Nulab’s Cofounder and CMO.

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Indicative

JUNE 18, 2021

Indicative CEO Jeremy Levy and Snowplow cofounder and CEO Alex Dean took on this topic in a recent webinar. That’s why Alex and cofounder Yali built Snowplow around first-party data collection using an open-source platform. They discussed the current state of the data ecosystem and what it means for data teams today and in the future.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 7, 2022

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

NPR sells ads on its podcasts and has teams of designers, planners, and strategists, but is technically a non-profit media organization.

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