Productivize - Issue #3
Featuring 3 product champions, resources and interesting products.
Hey there readers! Happy Monday and welcome to the third issue of Productivize. It’s been two weeks since I launched this newsletter and as a newbie, I’m learning a ton in how to give you the best possible reading experience while providing value at the same time. I’m really happy to tell you that Productivize now has 88 subscribers growing from 58 and counting towards 100. So thank you for showing your support and assuring me that my little experiment is providing value to you 🙏🏽
Let’s get started 👇
Freia Lobo
Freia is a Product Manager living in New York. Her recent work includes TTYL(a startup in LA) and previously she worked at Twitter. Before that, she went to NYU where she studied Econ and CS. She is very active on twitter and often tweets about social apps, products and startups. Give her a follow - @freialobo
Corey Gwin
Corey was an aerospace engineer before becoming a product manager and a founder. He spent six years as a startup PM helping grow it from an early-stage into a profitable company. He built Blurt a writing app which he sold to Voice. Right now he is part of Voice's product team and he runs a newsletter sharing learnings from his entrepreneurial journey. Give him a follow - @corey_gwin
Josh Elman
Josh is a product leader and an investor from SF. He was an early PM leading growth and engagement teams at Twitter and LinkedIn, launched big platforms like Facebook Connect/Login, and worked as VP Product at Robinhood. He is also a VC at Greylock Partners where he led multiple investments. He's currently on the board of Medium, Discord, and Mammoth Media. Give him a follow - @joshelman
50 Short Product Lessons
John Cutler shares his take on product strategy, storytelling, why to take bets, product thinking and more through this post. There are 50 short(most important) lessons in this post and I recommend consuming one at a time. Read on here.
Meta-thread on Product Management!
Shreyas is a prolific product leader who shares wisdom on twitter about Product Management. In this meta thread, he covered all things a PM needs to know. It comprises many threads he posted in the last 6 months. I highly recommend bookmark it and go through tweet by tweet.
How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit?
In this podcast 20VC episode, Harry Stebbings interviewed Daniel Erickson CEO & Founder of Viable Fit as they talk about: Everything about PMF covering the important metric to measure, the role of customer segmentation in revealing the true PMF number, how to productize PMF, what elements of the data should founders double down on to determine PMF and more. Listen to the episode here.
Bookshlf
A dedicated space to organize, curate and discover the content you love, no matter where it's from.
Toby
A chrome extension that organizes your browser tabs.
Screely
Instantly turn a screenshot into a browser mockup.
That’s all for today. I’ll be back with new learnings and findings next week. My goal is to give you the best experience and value through Productivize and I hope you enjoyed reading this issue.
Let me know your thoughts and suggestions in below comments. Thanks for reading!
Until next week,
Sharath