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Product management and curiosity

VC Cafe

When you are product manager, your work is never really done. You learn about how people use the product, analyse the data and come up with experiments to increase usage. Many of those fail and never make it to the product. But when I first became a product manager at GLG in 2005, that wasn’t the case.

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How The Coronavirus Has Forever Changed Remote Work

YoungUpstarts

surging by 173 percent since 2005 before the pandemic struck. Engaged remote employees created a 15 percent increase in productivity. It can also negatively impact productivity and may lead to higher turnover. It’s been a growing trend in the U.S., Here are a few leadership tips for managing a remote team: Trust your people.

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The 7 Traits of Super Founders

VC Cafe

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. They should be able to identify a gap in the market that their product can fill, and be able to communicate this to investors and employees.

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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

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In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We called this new product Safe Eyes. In June of 2005 while on vacation with my wife, I received a call from my brother. This rating put Safe Eyes on the map.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services. With this in mind, we started Intuit’s Unstructured Time program in 2005, where employees could spend 10% working on their own projects.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). I first met Ethan in 2005. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. We like to be able to see the concept.

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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

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He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). Peer-To-Peer Referral Network.

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