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Kie Watanabe
Kie Watanabe
HubSpot Group Product ManagerOctober 13
In my previous answer, re: finding the right opportunities + making decisions - I mentioned four lenses (Customer, Business, Market, and Technology) as key components of coming up with ideas and making decisions. The best advice I have to offer is to be intentional about spending time developing ......Read More
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Sandeep Rajan
Sandeep Rajan
Patreon Product Lead, Member ExperienceFebruary 23
I think of this in two ways best conveyed through a sports metaphor: learning new plays I can add to my playbook, and building reps so that I can figure out what the right play is for a given scenario.  For the first, I enjoy reading about strategy – lots of Stratechery, various strategy books, ......Read More
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Kie Watanabe
Kie Watanabe
HubSpot Group Product ManagerOctober 13
Lots of balancing! Balancing effectively summarizes the job of a PM. Jokes aside... Balancing user requests v. optimal design I pay much closer attention to the user's pain (vs. the user's request). Abstracting the problems we’re trying to solve creates room for the team to take in further......Read More
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Wade G. Morgan
Wade G. Morgan
Airtable Product Strategy & OperationsFebruary 16
Love the spirit of this question, and will broaden it a bit to "how do you balance market needs with the vision your company may have?" Prior to shifting to Product Strategy & Ops, I was hired as the 2nd Account Executive at Airtable. I found this experience so valuable because I had a front row......Read More
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Sandeep Rajan
Sandeep Rajan
Patreon Product Lead, Member ExperienceFebruary 22
The more differentiated & sticky your core value proposition is, the less you'll need to worry about market trends, as you'll have more and more of a market all to yourself. Make this your goal. Few companies find themselves in that position. For the rest, market trends give us a better sense of......Read More
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