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Lessons In Product Management

Lessons In Product Management

Path2Product

Path2Product's Mission is to bridge the gap in product management experience for aspiring product managers, so the Lessons In Product Management podcast is here to support that effort, as well as provide valuable insights to existing PMs and PM leaders.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Lessons In Product Management episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Lessons In Product Management for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Lessons In Product Management episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

On this episode of Lessons in Product Management, I sat down with Luke and Jakub from GetResponse as they shared their experiences launching products into new markets, what it takes to do it successfully, how to test into it, and how partnerships can be great and complicated at the same time.

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On today's episode, I sat down with Liyana Sulaiman, serial entrepreneur and Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Pollen. Pollen helps amplify brands by helping them convert social followers into a seller community. I love Liyana's story of how micro-failures can lead you through the necessary iterations to validate the market opportunity, your business model, and product market-fit. Liyana is super smart, thoughtful, and intentional in her work, and I'm excited for you to hear what she had to say. Here's what we discussed: How Pollen is all about democratizing opportunity for citizens of Southeast Asia to earn extra income The origin story of Pollen and why Liyana and her best-friend co-founder started it Pollen went through several rounds of iterations, trying to validate various hypotheses for the business model How Liyana and Pollen went about validating how Pollen could create and capture value from both sides of the market Why solving one problem is often not enough and how quickly the scope of the problems you need to solve can grow How Liyana and her co-founder navigated the complex situations they found themselves in to identify where and when they needed to pivot Questions you need to ask yourself as a PM or a startup founder Why defining the problem space well helps you identify the right opportunity The process Liyana recommends when you're building something from scratch How the cornerstone of product success is identifying your actual customer and the right problems to solve for them Why you should even challenge your mission and vision early on to make sure you're pursuing the right thing, in the right context Where Pollen is at today and how they're now well-positioned for rapid growth Here are the books Liyana Recommended: Lean Product Playbook - Dan Olsen My Product Management Toolkit - Marc Abraham
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Shawn shares how to create opportunities in your career and take advantage of the ones in front of you. We also discuss what type of opportunities you should pursue and when to say no.

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Andrew and I both had non-traditional paths into product management, and we've both experienced and seen how broken the talent acquisition process is for aspiring PMs. On this episode, you'll hear a passionate discussion of what problems we've noticed and some fun banter on how we'd fix the problem.

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Making the transition into product management can be hard. Larry Imgrund shares how he did it, and he offers advice for anyone looking to get into Product or anyone who has recently made that transition.

If you're looking to get into product management, join us at Path2Product to start gaining the experience you need to land your first PM job: Path2Product

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Lessons In Product Management - Why "leaning into your strengths as a PM" is a trap
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01/03/25 • 9 min

Some of the greatest leaders and leadership authors have given the advice to "Lean into your strengths."

This idea makes sense in some instances. In other cases, it can handicap your career and growth trajectory.

If you want to get into product management and challenge yourself to gain much needed PM experience, join a growing community of 1,000+ aspiring product managers on Path2Product where we bridge the gap of product management experience for aspiring PMs.

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Lessons In Product Management - When process kills progress - a story about Scrum
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11/18/24 • 8 min

On today's lesson in product management, John Fontenot shares a recent story about his experience working in a Scrum shop and how the rigid interpretation of Scrum almost killed his ability to ship a critical integration on time.

If you're interested in entering product management and want to gain the hands-on experience you need to make that leap, join us at Path2Product and start earning much-needed experience today.

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Lessons In Product Management - ML's Impact on Product Management Careers w/ Gopal Erinjippurath
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08/09/22 • 19 min

On today's episode, we have Gopal Erinjippurath, Founder, CTO, and Head of Product at Sust Global. Gopal and I talked about:

  • His product career
  • The lifecycle of AI/ML
  • Best use cases for Data Science and ML in products
  • And how ML might impact your career in product management

Connect with Gopal on LinkedIn

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Lessons In Product Management - How To Hack The MBA - And Do You Even Need One?!
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02/15/22 • 9 min

I get asked a lot about whether aspiring PMs need an MBA to land a Product Management job. The simple answer is no. But we dive into the nuance of why MBAs are valuable.

Here's the YouTube Video where we dive into how to go about hacking the MBA and some cost-effective MBA options

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On today's episode, I sat down with Vytenis Pakenas, CEO of Lucid Agreements. His 15-year journey from multi-time startup founder to CEO is pretty amazing. Today, Vytenis stopped by the podcast to share some key learnings from his JobRely startup experience. From business model fit to finding the right value metrics to track, there's so much to take away from this conversation, so let's get started.

Here's what we discussed:

  • How Lucid Agreements is helping to arrange meeting notes verbally, capture action
  • items and assign tasks in tools like Jira and Asana
  • Vytenis's journey from multi-time startup founder to CEO
  • How JobRely got started and the inspiration of it
  • The business model flaws when first launching JobRely
  • How vanity metrics impaired the vision of JobRely early on and how they changed how they looked at data
  • Why you shouldn't give too much away, because you have to capture value at some point to maintain a business
  • Why marketing shouldn't be invested in until you have product-market-fit and a business model that leads to repeatable, predicatbale outcomes
  • How overreliance on 3rd party tools can sink you business overnight
  • Where the big pivot happened and why
  • Why you should be thinking about profitability from day one and how that flies in the face of common startup advice
  • The importance of tracking the right value metrics and why mentorship can help you figure that out
  • How sci-fi novels can help you think bigger and broader toward disruptive innovation
  • Why the ability to explain complex ideas concretely and concisely is a super-power in and of itself
  • How listening to the market and your customers is the second super-power for product people

Connect with Vytenis: Vytenis LinkedIn

Connect with Lucid Agreements: Lucid Agreements LinkedIn

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How many episodes does Lessons In Product Management have?

Lessons In Product Management currently has 142 episodes available.

What topics does Lessons In Product Management cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Business.

What is the most popular episode on Lessons In Product Management?

The episode title 'Building Strong Product Team Dynamics w/ Nico' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Lessons In Product Management?

The average episode length on Lessons In Product Management is 21 minutes.

How often are episodes of Lessons In Product Management released?

Episodes of Lessons In Product Management are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Lessons In Product Management?

The first episode of Lessons In Product Management was released on Mar 2, 2020.

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