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When I'm evaluating an investment for Long Journey Ventures, one of my favorite questions to ask is: "Out of all the things you could spend your time on, why this company?"

Words of experience in this thread by the Former design VP at Facebook

Product managers are not just in charge of the products they build - they’re also in charge of the processes and systems around them, as they continue to unlock multiplicative value for their company. Based on my experiences, I’ve found that there’s a rarely-discussed cost when it comes to shipping more and more products. That cost is what I call coordination cost.

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With every new major acquisition channel that emerges, we see massive new companies emerge with it. This has proven to be true time and time again. But choosing, testing and scaling emerging acquisition channels is incredibly hard.

We started The Review back in 2013 with a lofty goal — to unlock access to career-changing, 1:1 coffee chats with a trusted mentor. Eight years and almost 500 profiles later, we’ve had the opportunity to interview an incredible range of folks with all sorts of company-building advice.

With no self-imposed time pressure, I was able to focus on just one thing: showing up every day and writing some code. Some features took an hour to implement, some took several hours spread over days, some even stretched into weeks, but it did not matter because there were no deadlines of any sort. Looking back, I cannot believe how much I’ve been able to ship over the past 6 years by just following this one rule.

When you actually launch new products to customers (which many teams don’t do), product managers and designers that have focused on scaling issues and optimization have to flex a new type of cross-functional muscle: how to work with product marketing

Sooner or later, someone’s going to ask “when will Feature X ship?” There are situations where having an answer – an accurate one – is non-negotiable.

The Product Decision Canvas is designed to help product professionals, especially product managers, gather a critical mass of data to make decisions early in the product discovery process. This course provides an overview of the canvas and a lecture on each of its building blocks.