Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document. Good product managers know the market, the product, the product line and the competition extremely well and operate from a strong basis of knowledge and...
Q&A: Can non-technical product managers be successful? - The Intercom Blog
Being a great product manager isn't about past experience. It comes down to understanding customer problems and how teams work, and great communication.
The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.
Not all good products make good businesses - The Intercom Blog
It's easy to assume that solving a real problem with a good product magically creates a successful software business. Sadly that’s never guaranteed.
Bob Moesta - Jobs-to-be-Done Find Out the Why!
The Stacks Product Manager
Astera seeks a Product Manager to build The Stacks, an open-access platform for sharing scientific knowledge. Join us to lead innovation at the intersection of science and technology.
All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...
On B2B2C Business Models | Andreessen Horowitz
B2B2C companies sell a product or service to a business, gaining customers and/or data from that business that they get to keep and use.
Unit Economics Handbook | Product Map
The Product Map Handbook is a valuable resource for product managers and entrepreneurs, offering practical insights into calculating and optimizing financial metrics across various business models. This comprehensive guide features the Unit Economics Canvas, a structured tool for analyzing and improving the profitability of business units.
Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job
The age of AI demands strong ideas, data driven methods, and experimentation
How to Talk to Customers: 5 Lessons to Improve Communications
Whether you call them product owner, evangelist, or community manager, every company should have someone talking to their customers regularly. They should be the goto for any "What-Ifs” and “I wonders” from the product team.
Signals: Toward a Self-Improving Agent | Factory.ai
Traditional product analytics tell you what happened. Session duration, tool calls executed, completion rates. But they...
The Four Big Risks | Silicon Valley Product Group
In the first edition of my book, INSPIRED, I discussed how successful products are valuable, usable and feasible, where I defined “valuable” as both valuable to customers and valuable to your business. While it’s easy to remember these three attributes, over the years I’ve come to believe that it was obscuring some pretty serious risks and...
How To Validate Product Ideas Before (And After) Building Them
People spend too much time writing software relative to speaking to potential customers, prior to launching and after it. Reversing that is a win.
Product strategy best practices [with examples]
When building a product you have to be great at saying No. Not 'maybe' or 'later'. 'No' is the strategy for delivering a cohesive, well defined product.
Feature / Product / Business: A Framework for Sustainable ATProto Projects | ATmosphereConf VODs
The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year! For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses. In this talk, you'll get a practical framework for understanding whether what you're building should be a feature, product, or business, plus concrete funding models at each layer to keep your work going and growing. (More in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/mosh.bsky.social/post/3mckiat2ne22q)
