Productivize - Issue #6
Featuring 3 product champions, resources and interesting products.
Hey there 👋 Happy Monday. Each week Productivize is something I look forward to as it gives me an opportunity to push my product thinking further and provide value to you all. Thank you for reading and learning with me 🙏
Before we dive into this issue, I wanted to give a small update. Productivize got featured in Product Club Notebook under newsletter suggestions alongside some legendary publishers like Lenny Rachitsky, Josh Constine, Nathan Baschez 🙏 I’m feeling honored for the mention and it motivates me, even more, to focus on producing high-quality content each week.
Let’s get started 👇
Gibson Biddle
Gibson is a former VP of Product at Netflix who comes with lots of experience in building world-class products, teams, and companies. He often tweets about Product Strategy and co-host an invite-only 120-person Product Leader Summit every year. His workshops and online webinars are backed by real experiences & rigorous experimentation. Give him a follow here - @gibsonbiddle
Martin Eriksson
Martin Eriksson is a product leader, speaker, author, and expert in product practices with over 25 years of experience building products and product teams in multiple markets and industries. He tweets interesting insights about product management, product practices and growth strategies. Give him a follow - @bfgmartin
Jackie Bavaro
Advisor at Asana, Jackie comes with a strong PM experience. She is the co-author of the book - Cracking the PM Interview. She often tweets and shares her insights on tips for aspiring product managers. Prior to Asana, Jackie was a Product Manager at Google and Microsoft. Give her a follow here - @jackiebo
Building Products for Power Users
In this podcast episode, a16z general partner David Ulevitch and Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra discuss how to build products that can turn any user into a power user. The conversation touches on themes on products to improve usability and how to apply game design principles to product design. They both cover how to onboard users to drive virality, when to expand to a second product, and how to use pricing to position a premium product. Listen here.
Product Vision vs. Mission
This article clears the fundamental confusions and misconceptions about the product vision. Most people often refer to their mission statement when they were asked about product vision and Marty in this article helps how to structure it citing the direct benefits and indirect benefits of it. You will also find solid examples that are strong product visions you can refer to. Read on here.
Frameworks for Product Success
Frameworks are a valuable tool in building a data-informed company and can guide your roadmap to help you build both scalable organizations and sustainable products. This article by Sequoia Capital's Data Science team covers some examples where you can use frameworks to align your company on key metrics; to break down growth, activation and retention. Read on here.
Pragli
Virtual office for remote teams.
Canny
Capture feedback in one organized place to inform your product decisions.
TrustedFor
Find the best people through the people you trust.
A book you should read: Generating Product Ideas
Written by Artiom Dashinsky, this book will teach you how to generate new ideas for your next business, side-project, or indie-startup. It’s packed with 17 actionable techniques, 60+ examples and 6 printable PDF canvases. If you are an entrepreneur or someone who is looking for inspiration for your next idea, this book is for you. Get it here.
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.
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Until next week,
Sharath