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Product Management

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What makes great product design? This townhall style video (55 mins) is filled with interesting insights from product designers! 

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The Pivotal Stories Every Startup Leader Should Be Able to Tell

Since starting his career as a U.S. Marine, Don Faul has led operations at Facebook, Pinterest and now Athos. Here are the stories he tells to rally big teams to do their best work.

Storytelling is an artform. Product managers need to tell effective stories about their customers/clients/users to ensure their voice is represented in an empathetic and compelling way. 

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LucidChart is a great tool for various types of ‘diagramming’. I use it extensively to build flowcharts, and they have a pretty cool wireframes feature as well.

Take a look!

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ProductHired - Simplify your Product Manager Search

ProductHired let's you simplify the way to you search for Product Managers. Find PM jobs, send resumes to companies and get the interview.

I recommend this website if you are exploring product opportunities in tech hubs around the world. They have a great PM spotlight as well!

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Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.

Trello is a great tool for Agile teams. Helps tremendously with release management and makes things planning and collaborating fun and easy.

Plus, its free!

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Roadmap.com

Roadmap.com is where Product Managers connect to learn, grow, and build better products. The community is based around questions, answers, and ongoing discussions.

Reddit for product managers. Spend a few minutes on this page!

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Create Easy Infographics, Reports, Presentations | Piktochart

Piktochart is an easy infographic design app that requires very little effort to produce beautiful, high quality graphics. Make your own infographics here.

I love using their infographics tools when making client presentations!

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Brent Tworetzky, Executive Vice President of Product at XO Group, shares his philosophy of user science, and explains how to assess customer perceptions and behavior when developing new products and features. Soundcloud | iTunes | Stitcher

Important podcast for building user-centric products. 

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In case you are still making paper-napkin wireframes! Balsamiq is an extremely powerful tool ( because its easy!) to wireframe and prototype. Get onboard today!

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Not all good products make good businesses - Inside Intercom

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.

Matching products to problems

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Xtensio | A Toolbox For Your Startup

Xtensio is the smartest document creator on the web. Create free lean canvases, one-pagers, or user personas just like web pages. Business documents perfect for entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, and designers.

This is currently one of my favorite product tools. Xtensio allows you to create well-framed user personas, amongst other concepts. Take a moment to check it out! ( They have a free version as well :) )

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Trying to build a product to improve the resettlement of Syrian refugees. In discussion at the Techfugees conference in New York City. Shout out to Ambassador Samantha Power for her inspiring keynote speech!

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Sheryl Sandberg: ‘As A Woman Gets More Successful.. She Is Less Liked’

Ellen Pao’s high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit has resonated with women across Silicon Valley and beyond – including Sheryl Sandberg.

In a recent interview with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Bloomberg, the Facebook executive said she saw many of her own experiences reflected in Pao’s case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Watch the full interview for more on women in tech from Sheryl Sandberg and RIchard Branson. 

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Spot on. How do we change?

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The 3 Most Promising Startups Of Disrupt NY

One of tech’s most important events happened this week: TechCrunch Disrupt New York. The 20 most innovative, groundbreaking, and promising startups presented at the Startup Battlefield. Here are my faves:

Spinn Coffee

I can’t survive without coffee, but Spinn Coffee has shown me that I’ve been experiencing coffee incorrectly my whole life. Spinn promises two key features: convenient and environmentally friendly coffee. Spinn can brew various types of drinks (french press, espresso, americano, etc), and it allows you to find local roasters through their app. Running out of coffee? Spinn will automatically order more from your favorite roasters. Remarkably, Spinn’s brewing process has no waste; this means no filters, no cups, no capsules. Of course, if you use it long enough, this would save you money, but more importantly, it is significantly better for the environment. You can currently pre-order Spinn (shipping in mid 2017) for $299.

Artveoli

Artveoli has perhaps the most sustainable invention of the Battlefield. This creation converts carbon dioxide to oxygen, making the planet a more breathable place. Using a microfluidic chip to encourage photosynthesis, Artveoli is making the world a healthier place, now and in the future.

Scoutible

The most intriguing idea in the Battlefield to me is Scoutible. Resumes are easily one of the most annoying things to create or read; they rarely provide you with what you want to know nor a person’s skills. Scoutible proposes a solution: play games to find jobs. Obviously, these games reveal much more about you than your gaming skills. It’s about your actions and your processes, which will reveal your strengths. Many top companies are finding talent on Scoutible, and you might just be hired from one 20 minute game!

Though I believe that these three startups show more promise, innovation, and expertise than any others at Disrupt NY, Beam won the Battlefield. However, I’m confident that all startups involved will have nothing but success in the future; these truly are the best of the best.

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Incredible product ideas!

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The worst part is that this is a self-fulfilling prophecy: If men make an assumption that women aren’t great at tech, then those men won’t help mentor women. Women will then start believing they aren’t great at tech or feel alienated from the community. As a result, there will be no women in tech, which just perpetuates the stereotype and the cycle. Last year, soon after I’d moved into a co-working space, I was working on yet another Saturday afternoon. A fellow founder in the space — a male, early forties — started chatting with me. He’d just started working on his own startup, and had a question. “I see you in here every day working late, and on the weekends. I’m building out my own team and was just wondering how he keeps you motivated to work so hard?” “What do you mean?” I asked. I was thoroughly confused. “Its my own startup. Of course I’m motivated.” “Ohhh,” his voiced trailed off. “I just thought… well, I just assumed he was the founder.” The guy pointed at Marcin’s desk. Marcin just happened to be the only male on the team who worked in that office.

Nikki Durkin, “I’m tired of being a ‘woman in tech’” (via dailydot)

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Trying to build a product to improve the resettlement of Syrian refugees. In discussion at the Techfugees conference in New York City. Shout out to Ambassador Samantha Power for her inspiring keynote speech!

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Nice write-up on product vision vs strategy