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Chap 1 - Getting Started - Written by Brandon Watson on Monday, August 31, 2009 13:18 - Comments

Each chapter is made up of essays whose titles complete the following:
Under no circumstances should you...

Product Management For Hackers

Tags: customer acquisition, entrepreneurs, hackers, product management, user acquisition

Slightly different format for today’s publishing.  I had the great fortune to spend the weekend with close to 300 people on the Microsoft campus for the Startup Weekend.   It was amazing to see so many people come together and create so many awesome products in such a short period of time.  I will have post my report out on the weekend up at my other blog sometime this week.  For now, I wanted to share the slides from the talk that I gave: Product Management for Hackers.  I received so many requests for the slides that I have posted them online.  I have embedded them here if you just want to click through the slides, but would encourage you to download them to get the speaker notes as well.

Product Management For Hackers
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  • source your work
    um I was at the event and there was NOT a presentation on product management for hackers? what day and time do you claim to have done this?
  • brandonwatson
    Were you at the Redmond event on Microsoft campus? I assure you that I was there on Sat and gave this presentation. Here's one tweet about it:

    http://twitter.com/briangorbett/statuses/363904...

    I hope you got value from the deck.
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Chap 1 - Getting Started - Aug 31, 2009 13:18 - Comments

Product Management For Hackers

More In Chap 1 - Getting Started

  • …Not Understand What Type Of Leader You Are
    Monday, August 17, 2009 8:38 - Comments
  • …Write A Long Business Plan
    Monday, August 10, 2009 10:43 - Comments
  • …Start A Company Because You Hate Your Job
    Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:25 - Comments
  • …Choose Your Name Without Care
    Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:32 - Comments
  • …Start Building The First Idea You Have
    Monday, July 27, 2009 8:56 - Comments

Chap 1 - Getting Started

Chap 2 - Building A Team - Aug 24, 2009 9:42 - Comments

…Not Focus On Building A Great Extended Team

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  • …Believe That You Need To Hire “Rock Stars”
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  • …Decide To Go It Alone
    Monday, August 3, 2009 10:59 - Comments

Chap 2 - Building A Team

Chap 3 - Building Product - Aug 27, 2009 10:03 - Comments

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