Me in the first year: We need to write blog posts, build landing pages, schedule webinars, build this feature, strategerize a grand plan, AND hire 12 people. Met today: Let's send an email and see if 10 people are willing to get on the phone.

The 2nd rule of SaaS: Stop trying to be everything to all people. Anti-personas are as important as personas.

A handy checklist to help you decide when it's time to sunset a feature

Something more founders need to understand: The best type of startup funding does not come from well-known angels or prestigious VCs. It comes directly from your customers paying for the thing you sell. Have enough of this and you won’t need any other type of funding.

I've been thinking about how Product Teams orientate themselves as they scale...and what things they might then look after. So, a few thoughts on how Metrics, Outcomes & Flywheels might help here... Warning: TIP (thought-in-progress) (1/18)

Our Twitter subscriptions plan needs work Elon Musk. I did a pricing study on 54.3k Twitter users to help you Doge Father. TLDR: - Verification should cost much less - Twitter Blue should cost much more - Twitter has a unique opportunity to 10x subscribers Thread time 🧵

Writing stuff down helps you with your brag doc #LeadDevBerlin James Stanier

How bad will the recession be? After analyzing revenue data from 27.2k companies: it's worse than we thought. - B2B getting hit hardest since '08 - Consumer $$ tanking What should you do? - 6 ways to not lose in recessions - 4 ways companies win in them Thread time 🧵

Stop over complicated your product management processes with a huge framework if you're at a small company... 99% of your problems can usually be solved by talking to each other, other teams, and leadership.

5 common ways to abuse OKRs: 1. Use them to express a plan (output OKRs) 2. Use them for performance evaluation 3. Treat them as new year's resolutions 4. Set too many OKRs 5. Over-craft them to constrain the team #okrs #productmanagement

Here’s how PLS works: 1. Users try out your product on their own 2. You look for usage behavior that signals a strong lead for a larger deal 3. These “hand-raiser” events trigger sales to go after them

in thinking about AR... I keep coming back to what would actually augment reality? 1) enhance real world digitally

When developing metrics and KPI’s, we often go overboard. Try this 1 tip: For each metrics, consider 1) If this went up 20% what would we do differently? 2) Went down 40%? Given your answers why do you need the metric? Now you have a proactive plan of action.

“no code” is actually short for “no coder willing to support you when your shit breaks”

A nice advice from Lenny Rachitsky 's bot on how to be a great lead pm ! I'll keep that in mind

The agile manifesto says: "We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it." NOT "We know the one true way to manage the software lifecycle. We don't actually write software, but we can certify you." #agile

Spent two days analyzing financial data from 33.6k software and tech companies. We're seeing a clear turn in the market "recession". Here's what I found and a framework for what to do now. A 🧵

3. Balaji's Transformer If you have a written idea -- try to draw it If you have a visual idea -- try to write it If you have a numerical idea -- try to explain it out loud The process of transforming the idea from one language to another produces a new perspective

Bad revenue year so far? Stop blaming the market. Here's one tactic the best use to boost revenue by 12-22% with a week of work 👇