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Practice of Product Growth

Think Like a Product Person

How to think like the best product people in everyday life We all regularly build products in our lives. We encounter a problem. Say, how to organize our email. We develop a system. We iterate. This is product building, everyday.  The fact that we are all building products everyday means we should also all improve […]

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Practice of Product Growth

What Does a Product Growth Manager Actually… Do?

🤔 A Mystifying, New Field 💭 “So, what does a product growth manager do?”  💭 “Isn’t that the same thing as growth?”  💭 “Doesn’t every PM focus on growth?”  I get it. When it comes to buzz-wordery, Product Growth has tons of it. But the field matters. And what people do in it is interesting. […]

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Companies that Matter

PayPal: The Original Product Growth Company

July 20, 2015 Where were you? I was living in Palo Alto at the time. I was working in technology. When I saw, the headline, “PayPal Spinoff Day has Arrived,” I shrugged. I even gave the company mental side-eye: ➡️ “Isn’t that the company inside eBay who hasn’t done anything innovative in years?” ➡️ “Does […]

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Product Growth Optimization

Should you invest in your referrals channel? 🤲

Coming out of the Trough of Disillusionment 🕳️ Many of the hottest consumer product companies have recently rapidly scaled through the referrals channel. Robinhood, valued at $36B, recently published that over 80% of its customers were acquired organically or through referrals. Clubhouse achieved hockey-stick growth to a $4B valuation a year after its founding. Tesla […]

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Practice of Product Growth

Why you want an iPad (as a business thinker, writer, and communicator)

No investment is better than an investment in yourself. As a business person who is paid to think, write, and communicate, you may want to consider an investment in an iPad. There are four main reasons why. 1/ Drawing figures  How many times have you sat down to make a figure, only to find out […]

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Product Growth Optimization

Should you hire a data product manager?

A common set of problems Just about anyone who has worked in a white-collar job these days has heard these complaints. While the rise of data has been well-documented, the added complexity in querying and analyzing may have been under-reported. This results in stakeholders often missing the data they want. They feel they cannot get […]

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Practice of Product Growth

OKPS: My favorite product visualization

How to drive consensus and exceed OKRs as a product team The OKPS (objective – key result – problem – solution) visualization helps PMs focus their product teams on the right work, drive consensus cross functionally, and exceed product OKRs. Solving problems for PMs Many of the PMs I have managed and mentored find resistance […]

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Product Growth Optimization

Should you build in-house ad tech?

Trend among fast growing tech companies A trend is spreading through many of the fastest growing technology companies – they are building in house ad technology stacks. Here are just a few of the awesome companies building in house ad tech: Zynga (68% Q1 YoY growth on $404M revenue) Wayfair (49% Q1 YoY growth on […]

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Practice of Product Growth

What is product growth?

Detailing the work of the different types of product teams focused on product growth If growth hacker was a buzzword in 2011, “product growth” could be construed as a similar buzzword for 2021. In this post, I try to breakdown the buzzword to get a grasp over what Product Growth could mean for those PMs. […]

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New Tech to Care About

Real Estate Investment Options in 2021

FinTech has been evolving rapidly in the Real Estate Investing Space – REITs, Equity Crowdfunding, P2P Lending, & Owning Outright. Given the plethora of new investing options, this post explores returns and AUMs. The Allure of Real Estate The collective American (and global) consciousness places a high value on real estate ownership. For decades, this […]