No Executive Support for Your Product? No Problem — Follow This Advice
Executive sponsors can be great. They help get you resources and funding. They provide insights into the broader strategy. They give you a look at what is happening…
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Uncensored advice about product development and building a high-growth software company from Brian de Haaff, co-founder and CEO at Aha!
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6 Questions Product Managers Should Ask Each Week
Product managers are a curious bunch. It is what makes us so good at our jobs. I suppose it is an indispensable skill for most jobs, really. But product managers are…
The Founder’s Paradox: How to Succeed When Most Founders Fail
Every summer I go on a backpacking trip to the Sierras in California. This year it was to the Emigrant Wilderness, just north of Yosemite. Jagged granite peaks, ice-blue…
Aha! Surpasses 5,000 Customers and a $40 Million Annual Revenue Run Rate
In 2018 Aha! surpassed over 5,000 paying customers with an annual revenue of $40 million. Learn how we do it with a fully remote global team.
5 Skills Product Managers Should Put on Their Resume
Lots of people want to be product managers these days. No wonder — this is challenging work that currently brings in the highest average salary offers of any tech job.…
Your Product Portfolio Is Overwhelming the Team (and Customers) — What Do You Do?
When are more choices a bad thing? Some might say “never.” I strongly disagree. The variations of your offerings should not be like flavors of ice cream. Building out…
Help! I Am a Product Manager and I Have No Control Over My Own Product
You like to build things. This is why you became a product manager. And yet very little building gets done. The plans you make keep changing. Decisions get overturned.…
The Founder’s Paradox: How to Be an Entrepreneur When No One Is Born an Innovator
What do you whisper to yourself when you think no one is listening? <p>“I am not a words person.”<br /> “I am terrified of speaking in public — because I am terribly…
You Can Experience Joy at Work Every Day
Joy at work. Some people scoff at the very idea. Most likely, these folks have never been happy in their career. Maybe they do not even believe it is possible. Work is…
6 Ways Product Managers Get Noticed (Plus, What Not to Do)
I bet you were the head of your class. People knew you for your smarts and ambition. But something changed between college and today. You are no longer the most talented…
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