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Balancing Engineering Cultures: Debate Everything vs. Just Tell Me What To Build
Lessons from leaders at New Relic, Credit Karma, Reforge, Hubspot, Trulia, Intercom, VSCO, and more
Jan 23, 2024 • 
Adam Fishman
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Balancing Engineering Cultures: Debate Everything vs. Just Tell Me What To Build
Finding Your Company’s Next Growth Opportunity
How to create and leverage a Simplified Quantitative Growth Model (including templates)
Jan 30, 2024 • 
Ross Nazarenko
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Finding Your Company’s Next Growth Opportunity
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WTF is Strategy?
What it takes to build a great company and product strategy - with lessons from Hubspot, Reforge, Facebook, Nextdoor, Patreon and Imperfect Foods
Jan 31, 2023 • 
Adam Fishman
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Mastering Product Discovery - Quantitative Discovery
Everything you ever wanted to know about Quantitative Discovery with stories from Lyft, Patreon, Facebook, Slack and more.
Dec 20, 2023 • 
Adam Fishman
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Behzod Sirjani
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When Branding is a Growth Strategy (Part 1)
How to leverage a brand investment to transform your business OR My story of re-branding Patreon for a customer base more creative than me.
Jun 23, 2023 • 
Adam Fishman
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When Branding is a Growth Strategy (Part 1)
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Which Type of Product Manager Are You?
An Exploration of Product Manager Archetypes
Mar 5, 2024 • 
Adam Fishman
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Creating an Experiment Doc
Organize and structure experiments with the template I've used at over a dozen companies
May 17, 2023 • 
Adam Fishman
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Reverse Interviewing—How to interview a company as well as they interview you
Part 2 of a 3 part series on how to successfully join a new company with lessons from leaders at Tile, Contentful, Reforge, Thumbtack, Zillow and more!
Sep 8, 2022 • 
Adam Fishman
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Reverse Interviewing—How to interview a company as well as they interview you
Stop Data Theater: Use Altitude Maps
A guide to measuring the right data, connecting it to the work that matters, and changing data culture at your company
Apr 2, 2024 • 
Crystal Widjaja
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Stop Data Theater: Use Altitude Maps
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Is It Time To Leave Your Job?
The Career Escalator, Reverse 9-Box and other tools to help you make this hard decision
Jan 9, 2024 • 
Adam Fishman
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Ravi Mehta
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Building a Growth Strategy
Lessons and templates from taking Patreon to $1B in annual GMV
Aug 22, 2023 • 
Adam Fishman
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Hot Take Alert #10: OKRs
Why do we use them. Where do people go wrong. How to do them right, including a template!
Jan 17, 2024 • 
Adam Fishman
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