Productivize - Issue #4
Featuring 3 product champions, resources and interesting products.
Hey there product enthusiasts 👋 Happy Monday and welcome to the fourth issue of Productivize. A quick update before we dive into today’s edition. Productivize reached the 100 subscriber milestone and thanks to you all who made this possible 🙏 The intention of this newsletter is to provide value while giving you the best possible reading experience at the same time. Hope you found and learned something new today.
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Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky is a product-minded entrepreneur, author, and investor. He often tweets about his take on how to build great products catering value to the users. I love his “thinking” segment on his twitter feed, it makes me stretch my perspectives. He currently serves as Adobe's CPO. Prev he co-founded Behance. Give him a follow here - @scottbelsky
Adam J. Ceresko
Adam comes with a unique product mindset that balances both maker and growth worlds. His metric-driven thought process helps founders to set goals with clear cut intentions. He works as a PM @Scribd and often offers help to founders. His twitter feed is full of product/growth nuggets. Give him a follow here - @adamceresko
Ryan Singer
Ryan’s breadth and depth of product experience is immense. He wore a lot of hats like UI designer, back-end programmer, strategist etc. He often shares his understandings of what customers are trying to do and how to make a product fit for them. He is the head of Product Strategy at Basecamp and wrote Shape Up book. Give him a follow - @rjs
What Philz Coffee can teach us about product design?
As a fan of Philz Coffee, Ryan Hoover shares his take on how the barista shop used hacks to build a successful business. These clever, small product tactics re-engage customers, increase sales, communicate premium quality, and suggest value to build repeat business and customer loyalty. Even though the article is a bit old the lessons are still relevant and spot on. Read on here.
Why do smart product people & teams often build products with mediocre or no impact?
Shreyas Doshi shares an insightful thread on the biases and fallacies we encounter when building products. He reminds the need for deep empathy towards customers and covers how to recognize these fallacies, tame them and suggests a long-term solution. IMO these make a great set of daily reminders for product leaders.
What to focus on when joining as a first PM?
Warmintro
Create, manage, and monetize your very own online community.
Reach At
Interact with people without a website.
Amplitude
A product intelligence platform that helps to build great product experiences that convert and retain users.
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
would be grateful if you can include the links of the recommended products in the next issues!