How to increase the transparency of your trust
Trust funds allow investors to pool their resources and entrust them to a professional manager. It can offer many benefits, including diversification, economies of scale, and tapping into the fund…
Attract Skilled Employees With These Recruitment Marketing Strategies
A guest post from Gloria Martinez of WomenLed.org (gloriamartinez@womenled.org) Recruitment marketing is a practice that has gained traction recently as business owners look for ways to bring on fresh, skilled…
Startup Layoffs in 2022
Layoffs in the startup industry are spiking again. In spite of a good jobs report this week, layoffs are climbing again. So far in Q2, 4,720 startup employees have lost…
Tips That Can Help Women Overcome Adversity in the STEM Industry
A guest post by Gloria Martinez, Womenled.org (gloria@womenled.org) While the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics have been predominantly male-dominated since the 18th century, the number of women working…
How Product Managers Can Build Empathy with Agile Teams
Product managers serve many constituencies - customers, partners, development, operations, marketing, sales, support, finance, etc. While they would like to be considered to be the CEO of their product, they’re…
15 Product Manager Memes for 2022
I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes. It has over 4,300 members and is simply a meme stash for product managers, marketers, and corporate life. People post…
Is Your Backlog Too Big? A New Technique for Prioritization
How many items are in your product backlog? 50? 100? 500? A favorite tactic for product managers dealing with stakeholder suggestions is to tell them they ‘will put it in…
Zillow AI Goes Crazy. Causes $8 Billion Drop in Market Cap, a $304 Million Operating Loss, and 2,000+ Jobs
On November 2, 2021, Zillow announced its third quarter results. While total revenues were up 88% in comparison to 2020, Zillow missed its guidance and announced that they were shutting…
Late Majority Product Management: Somebody Has to Do It
2022 is an exciting time to be a product manager. It is a great time to be at the center of new product development. Product managers at firms that IPO’d…
Product Managers: How Can You Estimate Your Competitor’s Product Line Revenues?
Understanding your competitors’ product line revenues is critical. Revenue information helps to put the relative strength or weakness of a competitor into the proper context. It helps product managers to…