Curated PM templates/frameworks, non-obvious product lessons, a hypothesis-driven approach to becoming a product leader, and “drops are the new marketing”

PM, career, and product building 💎's - 8/5/22

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On Friday’s I drop free, curated resources to help you:

👉 build products

👉  pivot into product

👉  level up in product

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

This is a bit meta, but here’s a curation of PM templates and frameworks to help with PRDs, defining strategy, launch planning, decision-making, etc. Curated by Shyvee Shi and credited to several great PMs/companies across the industry.

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𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬

Non-obvious learnings about building MVPs from John Koelliker. Regardless of how you think about the term, the idea is to continuously build something that can validate a core hypothesis about a problem you’re hoping to solve. Hope these insights can help you when it comes to building your own experiments! Great post, thanks for sharing John!

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𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡

The skills, metrics, and hypothesis-driven approach required to accelerate your product leader career by Gibson Biddle - former CPO, Netflix. My favorite excerpt: “Your job is to delight customers in hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing ways.” This article can help you decide what kind of product leader you want to be, then align you to the metrics that matter for getting there.

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𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫

Glad to see more of Greg Isenburg on Linkedin. Loved his thoughts on the future of marketing this week. Favorite excerpt: “Drops are the new marketing” and we should be creating a “drop roadmap”. Interesting concept for PMs to consider.

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