Sep 24, 2019

How do you decide what to build? Issue 35

• Case study, Scale
  Five Lessons from Scaling Pinterest

  Sarah Tavel: I was involved with Pinterest from 5 employees through 650. Heres what I learned.

• Launch, Growth
  Why Founders Market Their Products Too Late

  Founders predictably underestimate the importance of hiring marketers. Heres why many startups dont get round to marketing their product until its too late.

• Metrics
  Measure What [Really] Matters

  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of John Doerrs OKR Book

• Team dynamics
  What Makes For a Good Product Manager?

  How to progress from covering the foundations to becoming an exceptional PM.

• Product Discovery
  Product Discovery: Pitfalls and Anti-Patterns

  Are you doing real Product Discovery? If youre a product leader and recognize your companys approach in any of these anti-patterns, I hope this post will provide language to characterize the problem and guidance on fixing it.

• Strategy, Roadmapping
  How do you decide what to build?

  Learn the first step of turning that data into an actual product.

• Growth
  The Scientific Marketing Strategy Behind Exponential Growth

  How to set up a marketing strategy to get massive business growth.

• Growth
  Growth is Simple

  Sean Ellis: By simple, I dont mean easy. While the elements that generate growth are simple, effectively driving growth for most companies has proven very difficult.