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9 min read · May 19th · A project management methodology for solo game developers
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Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs
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May 19th · Nate Stewart is the Chief Product Officer of Cockroach Labs, which is the creator of CockroachDB. He unpacks the ins and outs of building a product org for a highly technical enterprise product — from…
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A Product Design Process for the Real World
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7 min read · May 12th · May 8, 2022At the start of 2021, Dialpad’s core product was a business phone platform. We supported several use cases, but making and receiving phone calls over the internet was our bread and butter.…
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Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson
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Apr 21st · Selling A No-Code Business To Building Airtable from $0 to a $6 Billion Unicorn with David Peterson: https://youtu.be/IC-B0QaoQ80#b2b #business #creator #cre...
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Launching over and over again
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1 min read · May 10th · There's a huge difference between shipping a product, soft launching, and launching. And there's no rule that says you can only launch once. It took a f...
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The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager
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8 min read · Apr 24th · According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry…
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Product Roadmap Detours
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6 min read · Apr 20th · A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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The sprint planning meeting that goes on forever
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3 min read · May 4th · The sprint planning meeting is the most extended in the scrum framework, and based on my experience, it is also the most exhausting meeting for most teams. The most challenging thing about this…
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Earn Your Manager's Trust
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4 min read · May 16th · A template I use to manage up more effectively
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Improve Collaboration Between Product and Customer Service — Reforge
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Building a highly-technical enterprise product? Essential advice for product leaders — Nate Stewart of Cockroach Labs
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May 19th · Nate Stewart is the Chief Product Officer of Cockroach Labs, which is the creator of CockroachDB. He unpacks the ins and outs of building a product org for a highly technical enterprise product — from…
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20+ min read · From 2016 · Successful data-driven product managers need a variety of different tools, skills, and capabilities that cut across many domains.
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Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
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7 min read · From 2015 · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants…
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10 min read · From 2016 · Please raise your hand, if you’ve ever heard about minimum viable product (MVP) and have no clue what it is. When you talk to software…
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Product Strategy is About Saying No
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From 2014 · Intercom's Des Traynor at Business of Software Conference 2013, Boston, MA talking about why Product strategy is mostly about saying no. Funny, thought provoking…
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Do Things that Don't Scale
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~16 min read · From 2015 · July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build…
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Why Trello Failed to Build a $1 Billion+ Business
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~11 min read · From 2017 · In 2011, Joel Spolsky launched his company Fog Creek’s new product at TechCrunch Disrupt called Trello. It looked a lot like a whiteboard…
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20+ min read · 2021-09-14 · The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their…
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