A Product Manager’s Job

Product management is one of the hardest jobs to define in any organization, partially because it’s different in…

How to Work with Designers

A Cheat Sheet for Engineers and PMs

The only metric that matters

I've been lucky to be part of the early growth of several really interesting and now important networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. One of the things that I felt working on each of these is that we never looked at numbers or metrics in the abstract -- total page…

Oneliner: How to Describe Your Offering in One Sentence

How to Find New Business Opportunities

Generating business ideas is a skill. You can develop a habit to see an economic opportunity…

Play by your own rules.

A little over a year ago I joined Facebook as a Product Manager. I work with the Pages, Location, and Events teams…

All the Startup Advice You Read Is Wrong

But you should read some anyway

Founder’s Guide to Market Research

Define key questions and ask your customers

What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

As of November 2012

We’re now eight months into building Medium, having started in earnest in February of this year. In August, we launched what I call the “preview” version—which included viewing content publicly and creation for a…

Stealing Traction: How Youtube, Paypal, StumbleUpon and AirBnB Grew Through Piggybacking

Design patterns in viral growth

One of the key challenges of creating a two-sided network is deciding how to get both sides on…