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    • Stage 1: Baseline Fact Gathering — Building Your Intelligence Foundation
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    How a Failed Zoom Due Diligence Call Led to a Disaster for a Firm That Had Raised Over $70 million in VC Funds

    On Sunday, September 26th, Ben Smith from the New York Times published…

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    Product Managers: Q3 is Ending. Are you Going to Miss Your Bonus Again?

    As the third quarter draws to a close, many product managers are…

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    Privacy Debt is the New Technical Debt

    Product managers deal with technical debt all the time. Privacy debt is…

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    How a 56 Second TikTok Video Disrupted 4,600 Scientific Research Projects

    In July 2021 Sarah Frank, a rising freshman at Brown University, uploaded…

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    20 Product Management Memes for 2021, Volume 4

    I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes.  It has…

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    Bessemer Ventures Research: Scaling to $100 Million

    Bessemer Ventures is one of the leading venture capitalist firms in the…

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    Tacos as a Service: Has XaaS Finally Jumped the Shark?

    Has Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS). finally, gone too far? XaaS is clearly a trend…

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    Software Equity Group August 2021 SaaS Index Update

    The Software Equity Group (SEG) regularly publishes quantitative research on the software…

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    Product Manager Intelligence on Steroids: The MoneyWheel & Win/Loss Analysis.

    Growing revenues is a challenge every product manager faces. The combination of…

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    Todd Russell Hill 1967 – 2001

    Todd Hill was an account executive with QRS Corporation. He passed away…

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