You're Not Thinking Big Enough
In this episode: - "Your ideas suck" and how to get over it - How to lead by influence - The essential PM skill you can learn in couples' therapy
Mar 01, 20170
100 PM
Welcome to 100 PM – the show where we interview one hundred active product managers – from startups
to enterprise and everything in between all from one great city every season.
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Episodes
Start Me Up
In this episode: - Explicit expectations vs implicit - how is PM success truly measured? - Get a PM job by thinking of yourself as the problem - Leveling up the global potential
Feb 15, 20170
Pump Up The Volume
In this episode: - Taking customer experience to the next level - A brief history of internet music startups - Diplomats, detectives and warriors
Jan 25, 20170
Founders are Product Managers, Too
In this episode: - What is Customer Development and why it's critical - The benefits of bootstrapping your business - When Founders need to hire Product Managers
Jan 18, 20170
Starting Something from Nothing
In this episode: - Intro to "growth hacking" - Getting out of the building - The importance of "telescoping"
Jan 11, 20170
Ladder Up
In this episode: - Starting with passion - Conscientious career pivoting - Getting your foot in the door
Dec 21, 20160
A Tale of Two Product Managers
In this episode: - The power of paper prototypes - Scaling lean - Projects that can change the world
Dec 14, 20160
Success is Not a Perfect Story Arc
In this episode: - The art of faking it til you make it - How content really gets made (the good, the bad and the ugly) - Pros and cons of insourcing content production
Dec 07, 20160
Hustle
In this episode: - Balancing strategy and tactics - Leveraging your past skills to find PM success - Learning to be imperfect - Filling the gaps
Nov 30, 20160
Something Different Every Day
In this episode: - How product roadmaps get built - Persuading executives with data, not force - The right time to hire a Data Scientist - Comparing LA tech to SF tech - How to get hired at Dollar Shave Club
Nov 23, 20160
Always Be in Your MVP
In this episode: - Building for speed and for scale - Mastering UX Design in 30 minutes - Applying Agile to romantic relationships
Nov 16, 20160
Keeping Right Relations
In this episode: - A plea for female product managers to join the fun (and the uncensored truth about why the field is still male-dominated) - Why you can't be commitment-phobic when roadmapping enterprise products - Seeking wisdom in the fountain of youth, Neko Atsume and Venmo
Nov 09, 20160
How to Sell Product You Can't See
The biggest challenge Andrew and his team at Inspire face today is learning how to leverage effective product management strategies to roadmap, market and sell "invisible" services. In today's conversation, we talk about the Swiss Army approach to getting hired and six other Product Manager molds, Andrew's best friend "Eric," as well as how to deploy experiments when there's no code involved and "humble Product Management."
Nov 02, 20160
Entrepreneurial Disease
In this episode: - Using SEO to build a content strategy that works - How to tackle analytics and the power of lean metrics - One critical piece of advice for not going down with a sinking ship
Oct 26, 20160
A Job That Never Ends
A veteran of the LA tech scene lays down hard truths about why many companies should never get funded, the real reason there are so many job openings in product management, and how to succeed with nothing but the powers of persuasion.
Oct 19, 20160
The Queen of No
In this episode: 1. Focusing on the right things at the right time 2. Turning condescension into motivation 3. How to get the job, learn the job and love the job
Oct 12, 20160
Put Something Out and See What Happens
"For me that was a very hard thing to let go of. Like the fact that oh, it has to be perfect and then we put it out. Because that's the way I was used to with packaging. That's the way I worked with packaging or with exhibition. Like, you can't hang this on the wall if it's not perfect. You can't have people come and look at this beautiful exhibition if it's not well put together and everything is in its right place, so I looked at product the same way. Then I realized that it's not that way. It...
Oct 05, 20160
You Have to Do the Hard Stuff to Do the Fun Stuff
100 PM sat down with Tyler Adams - winner of The Amazing Race and Senior Product Manager at BCG Digital Ventures to talk all about "Intrapreneurship" and how businesses can leverage existing data, customers and assets to create new products that drive growth.
Sep 28, 20160
Nobody Wants to Talk About Failure
In our eighth episode we talked to industry veteran Natacha Gaymer-Jones about: * The business of launching a product * Why “validated learning” is essential to success – whether or not your company is funded * How even product experts fall victim to the trap of “starting with solution” * The ugly truth about startup success (it’s rarer than the media will have you think) If you’re looking for a fresh, female perspective on entrepreneurship and perseverance, tune in now.
Sep 21, 20160
Minimum Viable Product Manager
If you're looking for Kellin Haley you're most likely to find her: on a surfboard, on a motorcycle, running product at NBCUniversal. Haley is a self-described "minimum viable product manager." In this episode she tells me what that means, as well as the naked truth about how to get founders to "give up their baby" to a product manager; the myth of "if you build it, they will come;" and things every man should know about working with women
Sep 13, 20160
Getting to a Leadership Mindset
"When I was an executor I was an asshole. I was on the bottom floor being the bulldog saying, I want it now. I want it this way," she tells me. "Now it's, Where do you think we can go? How are we going to get there? There's a lot more 'we' that happens." We're speaking of lessons learned on the job and advice from Simon Sinek's latest book, Leaders Eat Last, and we're laughing, a lot.
Sep 07, 20160
Selling to Big Companies
The first product Jacobo Plu built was a hemp bicycle frame using soybean oil resin. Today he is among of the founding four at Yoi (alongside Keith Ferrazzi, enigmatic entrepreneur, author and former CMO of Deloitte and Starwood Hotels) — a human resources technology company now with 22+ employees; a little engine that could, and did, and is.
Aug 31, 20160
Lessons from the Enterprise
Chris Brereton got his start in product management as the lead screamer for the band Avarice. “The process for me is very much the same [as being in a band], where you’ve got multiple people with multiple talents that have to somehow come together and work on their instruments or their talents in harmony and come out with some product, or song, or record, and hope that somebody enjoys it enough to buy it.”
Aug 23, 20160
Just Do It
Armen Daniyelian doesn’t mind that our recording room is a little chilly — “I’m Russian, so I’m used to it.”
Aug 11, 20160
There's Always Going to be Someone Smarter
Liam Oliver might be the only product manager who moonlights as a professional hockey referee. He’s certainly the first person I’ve heard use refereeing as analogy for validated learning...
Aug 09, 20160
Subtract Until it Breaks
In this epsiode: - Why routine and mindfulness matter - Conducting thoughtful market research - The power of curiosity
Aug 02, 20160
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