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Siphon’s Mohit Aron on why AI should be an ‘artificial human’ companion
Mohit Aron (earlier cofounded Nutanix) discusses the 'context gap' in go-to-market data, where information is fragmented and often inaccurate, and introduces Siphon's solution of 'context convergence' to unify it.
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Masayoshi Son: AI’s ‘superhuman effort’ will dwarf past tech revolutions
Masayoshi Son discusses the profound impact of artificial intelligence, asserting that its development should be accelerated rather than slowed down.
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Atlassian CEO: the ‘brainless bet’ of neglecting design in the AI era
Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar argues that neglecting user experience and design in the AI era is a "brainless bet" for companies.
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Founders agreement [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
For founders who are not related to each other (like husband-wife, father-son etc.) it is important to enter into Founders Agreement covering important working relationship between founders and vesting schedules for founder’s…
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The two foundational types of product managers: 👷🏽♀️Craftspeople and 👩🏾🎨 Creators
👷🏽♀️Craftspeople product managers… These are folks that are really good at taking something existing and making it consistently better. They love creating best version of something through attention to detail and focus.…
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Why this 15 months old startup, Locale.ai didn’t build the product for the first 6 months #BuildingMVP
1/10 The Idea: It all started with a personal problem. Working on projects involving geolocation previously, we had to build lots of internal tools. We saw: Companies collecting huge amt of lat/longs…
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Anti Dilution Rights [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
When investors come onboard, they ask for anti dilution rights to protect themselves from any down trend in valuation of the startup in future. Startup should issue additional shares for free to…
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Product managers OKRs – Practical examples
OKRs for the product team is rapid planning methods, adaptable to change, and which allow the product team to solve problems of autonomy, concentration, alignment, and those mainly related to the product.…
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Substack's Growth Loop
Substack's primary growth loop is what we call a User Generated, User Distributed content loop within Advanced Growth Strategy program. - New Creator Joins - Creator Creates Content - Creator Distributes That…
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Investor reporting & MIS [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
As investors come on board post investment, they need regular updates on various aspects of startup followed by review meetings. Sharing accurate MIS on agreed timelines is very important. The current episode…
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3 Mistakes a product manager should never make
There are many mistakes which product managers should never make, but here are the top 3: The echo-chamber: Me, my friends and family is liking it. Missing Perspective: Relying too much on…
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The Product Thinking That Built Slack & Twitter
April Underwood offers inside stories and lessons learned from leading product at two category-defining companies, Slack and Twitter. --- Ask yourself this question: “Why is it fantastic that this is the first…
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Glimpse of life post investments [eLagaan Whiteboard Friday]
Life of startup founders change a lot after raising money. The new investors comes on board and is also involved in many decision making and operations of the company. The current episode…