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product presentation

✍️what's going on here?

Product Managers have to tell many sorts of stories, such as: future product vision; technical dependencies; (re)organisational structures; strategic decisions; roadmaps; and many more.

👋what does it mean?

Stories are thrilling to listen to when unexpected things happen. Predictable is boring. You'll need to strike a balance between being unpredictable and messy.

💡why should you care?

PMs must rely on influencing and communication skills to build better products. Presentations skills, then, are a must-have.

Click here to read the article

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identifying stakeholders for success

✍️what's going on here?

For a better product and a smoother decision-making process, it is important to get clarity on product stakeholders very early in the project. And there's a process for that.

👋what does it mean?

As different stakeholders have different priorities and expectations for the product, a deep understanding of your stakeholders could be crucial for your product success or failure. 

💡why should you care?

it is worth investing time and effort to understand for each new project who has a stake and whom to manage closely or others to just to keep informed. A tool to support product managers is stakeholder identification and how this results in a stakeholder map.

Click here to understand the process

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bulletproff user onboarding

✍️what's going on here?

There's no "right" way to view a website. If we want our creations to succeed, we need to accommodate all the ways in which they're experienced.

👋what does it mean?

Instead of prescribing a single "right" way and accepting the fragility that comes with that specificity, it's far better to instead aim for something so robust that it can take any weird thing you throw at it.

💡why should you care?

People arrive at a product with all kinds of different intentions, perspectives, and levels of familiarity at their disposal. When you address uncertainty with flexibility, you generate resilience.

Click here to check the three principles.

we're also following 👀

Microsoft pursuing TikTok purchase by Sep 15th, may invite US investors to deal.

Impossible Foods starts selling in Walmart, the largest meat market in America

Amazon gains FCC approval for internet satellite constellation, commits $10B.

NASA successfully launches its Mars 2020 mission with Perseverance rover.

news on products 🚀

·      MetaProp Raising $200M For Fourth Proptech Fund.

·      Fortnite-Maker Epic Games Raises $1.78B.

·      Approve.com Raises $5M Seed To Enter US Market.

·      Orum Banks On $5.2M Seed Round For Money-Moving Platform.

·      Platterz Becomes Thriver; Secures $33M Series B For Workplace Engagement Tools.

·      PandaDoc Adds $30M To Series B To Advance Document Workflow Platform.

·      Giving Cats Some Love: Pet Food Startup Smalls Nabs $9M Series A For Cat Food.

·      Office Of The Future: ROOM Raises $12.5M Series A To Expand Product Line.

·      BigCommerce Stock Opens 183% Above IPO Price

·      E-Commerce Marketing Startup Yotpo Lands $75M Series E.

·      SoftBank, Kakao Give Radish $63M Series A Boost To Build New Story Content.

·      Breezeway Brings In $8M Series A For Property Management Platform.

·      A Mobile Storefront In Under 15 Minutes: Cashdrop’s Platform Secures $2.7M In Seed Funding

·      Credit Suisse Invests $30M In Feather For Urban Furniture Rental.

jobs on product 

·      Spocket - Senior Product Manager (Vancouver, CA)

·      Spocket - Product Designer (Vancouver, CA)

·      Cover - Senior Product Manager (Toronto, CA / Remote)

·      Glassdoor - Product Manager (San Francisco, US / Remote)

·      DialPad - Senior Product Marketing Manager (Remote)

·      M13 - Launchpad Program Manager (Los Angeles, US)

·      GOAT - Junior Project Manager (Los Angeles, US)

·      Crossbeam - Product Manager (Philly, US)

·      Primetime Partners - Senior Associate / Principal (New York City, US)