Product Management
Meta operates with a top-down ideation approach, led by Mark Zuckerberg, but emphasizes bottom-up execution.
Lenny Rachitsky • Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth
The “About Me/Us” section above is externally facing. Guiding principles on the other hand are internal and represent the core values and beliefs that provide a framework for reacting and making product decisions regardless of the situation. It ensures you and your team all react in a manner that is favorable to the success of your products. What
... See morePhil Peron • Managing Your Product Playbook
A very basic three-category scale of Urgency could go something like this:
• “ASAP” represents the highest band of urgency. If we don’t deliver this ASAP, then the value (whatever total value that might be) will quickly evaporate – someone will get there before us or the opportunity (however big or small) will be massively impaired.
• “Soon”
Joe Smith • Qualitative Cost of Delay
Another way to make your trials even more effective is to offer them multiple times.
Many companies believe that users will just abuse this but, if your trial is properly set up, that shouldn't be a big issue.
Jurn van Wissen • SaaS Trials: How to Design Trials That Convert to Paying Customers
It’s important to challenge yourself and your peers to cut even the good ideas if they aren’t perishable (can be done later), strategic (don’t directly support this plan’s strategy), or differentiating (set you apart from your competition). Instead, put those resources against the top priorities.
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself.
“Often it’s not that you don’t know who the customer is, it’s that you’re not picking — you haven’t committed to one hypothesis over the other. That’s what creates the confusion about what the product is, what the feature set looks like,
... See moreIf you try to improve something by 10%, you can almost always solve the problem with brute force and caffeine.