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DECEMBER 7, 2020

I say this to remind you that reporters are humans too — and even if you’re building the most interesting product on the market, it may not be the right story, or the right moment for whoever you’re pitching. They’re usually overstretched and underpaid, and if they don’t respond to you, that’s their prerogative. And that’s okay!

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MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse: First and foremost, they need to commit to the idea that brand is important and recognize that product isn’t everything. In today’s world, product is necessary but not sufficient. In addition to a great product (again, which you absolutely need—whether it’s physical, platform, services, etc.),

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OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the best and most positive movements proliferating around the tech community is what Product Hunt founder and CEO Ryan Hoover calls “building in public.” Because of both lean startup principles and a thriving community of pay-it-forward individuals, we can all now build a little, learn a little, and then repeat.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution all the time. Greatness doesn’t always carry over in different contexts (different type of product or go-to-market, different market context, different stage in one’s life, etc.). But the opposite argument could be made as well. The Case for Traction.

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APRIL 2, 2015

The same debate around pitch deck design also extends to other important touchpoints: a company’s homepage, careers page, product pages, social media profiles, business cards, and so on.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Looking back at our current fund, 75% of our initial investments were made when the company was very much pre-product. At NextView, we pride ourselves as being a “one-product company.” It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. This took about 6 months as well.

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MARCH 10, 2015

Tamiz Ahmed is a former product manager at Bleacher Report, where he helped build the successful app for sports fans, Team Stream , prior to the company’s nine-figure sale to Turner. Below, he shares product management lessons from his time at BR. The entire product team on the app was just me and my boss at the time.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Food delivery providers are leaning in to support local restaurants through this difficult time. Those who lean to the former use case and shift to an at-home routine during the pandemic will likely get hooked by the convenience and choose not to return to their previous routines.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We have to lean into one of the core competencies our government has by putting economic power into people’s hands. People who are reading this know that investing in your people in an organization is the right thing to do because if you can make them stronger, more productive, the organization benefits and performs better.

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