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• An Open (Financial) Letter to Millennials

  An Open (Financial) Letter to Millennials. CNBC. Author: Alex Mitchell.

• Products I Can’t Live Without #2: Calendly - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Calendly is a simply a product I can’t live without as a Product Manager. Author: Alex Mitchell

• Alex Mitchell - Director of Product @ Kin Insurance - Crunchbase

  Alex Mitchell · Overview · Jobs · Board and Advisor Roles · Related Hubs · Education · Recent News and Activity · Choose the right Crunchbase solution for you · Privacy ...

• Top 10 Latin American Startups to Watch in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  By popular demand, I’m releasing another edition of my “Top 10 [Location] Startups to Watch in 2020”. This time I’ll be focusing on Latin American Startups. Each of these posts explores the unique…

• 6 Years Later… “10 Bold Technology Predictions for the Next 10 Years” | by Alex Mitchell | May, 2022 | Medium

  6 Years Later… “10 Bold Technology Predictions for the Next 10 Years”. 4 years is (still) a long time horizon for technology. How have my predictions fared? Author: Alex Mitchell.

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• Recognizing and Avoiding Team Burnout | by Alex Mitchell | Jul, 2021 | Medium

  Recognizing and Avoiding Team Burnout. At a startup, you’re always in a battle against time. This can lead to burnout. Here’s how you can avoid it. Author: Alex Mitchell.

• The 9 Different Types of Product Management Interview Questions and How to Answer Them | by Alex Mitchell | Jul, 2020 | Medium

  Preparing for a Product Management Interview? You’ll probably find my post on “The One Thing I Look For” helpful too! Over the course of my career at Vistaprint, Upside Business Travel, ICX Media…

• Building Your Personal Brand (And Why it Matters) - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Over the past 7 years, I’ve seen a very small handful of individuals in my network learn, grow, and advance in their careers at an order of magnitude faster than their peers. I’ve also seen many very…

• How to Host the Perfect *Virtual / Remote* Game Night

  My wife and I are the kind of friends you have who are always planning dinner parties, weekend group getaways, ski trips, game nights, and more. We (well, mostly my wife) are always thinking about…

• Top 10 Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  By popular demand, I’m releasing another edition of my “Top 10 [Location] Startups to Watch in 2020”. This time I’ll be focusing on Israeli Startups. Each of these posts explores the unique…

• The 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Product Owner

  What are the 7 habits of the most successful product owners? Author: Alex Mitchell

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• Top 10 Israeli Startups to Watch in 2021 | by Alex Mitchell | Jan, 2021 | Medium

  2020 was a year of many, many, many ups and downs (2021 has proven to be full of changes so far as well). A LOT changed around the world. I’m excited to write about many of the incredibly impressive…

• Go and Build Something (Physical)!

  Go and Build Something (Physical)! Author: Alex Mitchell

• The Millennial Survey

  The Millennial Survey is the first of its kind. It is a comprehensive, far-reaching interview and survey project designed to better understand the fastest-growing generation.

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• The 10 YC Companies (W22) I’d Invest In | by Alex Mitchell | Apr, 2022 | Medium

  But first, here are my past YC posts if you want to check how my older picks have done. If you want to skip to the bottom, you can also see my own evaluation of my past picks for S17 — S21 (I’ve been…

• Disrupting Yourself: Special Offer for Medium Readers (Limited Time!)

  Disrupting Yourself is the powerful set of lessons you need to help prepare for that change and learn how the rules have completely changed in the new economy. For a very short period of time, I’m…

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• So You’re Returning to the Office… The Do’s and Don’ts of a Hybrid World | by Alex Mitchell | Apr, 2021 | Medium

  More than 1 year ago, I wrote: “How to Be a Great Remote Product Manager.” Little did I know that we’d be living in a remote-only world for more than a year! As of 4/24/21, more than 53% of the adult…

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• An Uber Journey in 3 Parts

  In the Spring of 2017, we added Uber as a travel option to the Upside product. Previous to this launch, we had sold only flight + hotel packages. It was a big step for us, but, like many ideas at Upside it began with a small test.

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• Building Digital Products

  ProductHunt: The Ultimate Handbook for Digital Product Owners.

• The Top 10 Newsletters for Product Managers | by Alex Mitchell | Aug, 2020 | Medium

  Over the past 16 editions, we’ve seen more than a 5x growth in subscribers and have covered topics ranging from Interviewing During a Pandemic to Activating Your Creativity to Creating Optionality…

• Introducing Webs Local Search: Get Your Business Listed Today!

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• The Best Pandemic-Era Blog Posts from Product Managers | by Alex Mitchell | Jan, 2021 | Medium

  Even though 2020 is now (thankfully!) behind us, there is a lot that we as Product Managers can learn from a year that changed so much, challenged so many of our beliefs, changed our ways of working…

• Alex Mitchell's profile on Product Hunt

  See what kind of products Alex Mitchell (Product Manager, Pagemodo/Vistaprint) likes.

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• From Idea To Launch: The Product Development Journey by Alex Mitchell

  From Idea To Launch: The Product Development Journey by Alex Mitchell

• Alex Mitchell - Amazon.com

  Alex Mitchell. + Follow. Something went wrong. Please try your request again later. OK. Alex is passionate about creating and growing powerful web and mobile ...

• Alex Mitchell - Washington, DC, Upside Travel, University of Michigan ...

  Alex Mitchell. Director of Product in Washington, DC. Visit my website. Alex is passionate about creating and growing powerful web and mobile products that ...

• The 10 YC Companies (S22) I’d Invest In | by Alex Mitchell | Sep, 2022 | Medium

  But first, here are my past YC posts if you want to check how my older picks have done. If you want to skip to the bottom, you can also see my own evaluation of my past picks for S17 — W22 (I’ve been…

• 4 Years Later… “10 Bold Technology Predictions for the Next 10 Years”

  Nearly 4 years ago, I made 10 Bold Tech predictions for the next 10 years. Let’s check-in and see how I’m doing so far! Original Theory: There are over 118 million WiFi hotspots in the world today…

• Find Time For Your Side Hustle | The Modern Product Manager

  I've heard every excuse why you're too "busy" for a side hustle. Here's how to find at least 10 hours/week. Author: Alex Mitchell

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• The Top 10 Videos to Watch for Product Managers of All Levels

  Recently, I launched a new YouTube channel called Go Tech Yourself. The channel features content for Product Managers, startup people, and anyone interested in Tech. I’ve started my channel by…

• Top 10 African Startups to Watch in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  By popular demand, I’m releasing another edition of my “Top 10 [Location] Startups to Watch in 2020”. This time I’ll be focusing on African Startups. Each of these posts explores the unique…

• Alex Mitchell - Product Mentor on MentorCruise

  Alex Mitchell is a Product & Marketing mentor who provides personalized mentorship in Product, Product Manager, Interview and more.

• Building Your Product Manager Brand (And Why it Matters)

  Over the past 7 years, I’ve seen a very small handful of Product Managers learn, grow, and advance in their careers at an order of magnitude faster than their peers. I’ve also seen many very…

• Medium | Alex Mitchell
• Ask Me Anything: Vista Print's Alex Mitchell - MVP Conf 2015

  Ask Me Anything: Vista Print's Alex Mitchell. Ballroom. Alex Mitchell ... Print's Alex Mitchell. An open Q&A with Webs/Vista Print Product Manager, Alex Mitchell.

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• The One Thing I Look For In Every Product Manager Candidate

  The One Thing I Look For In Every Product Manager Candidate: Healthy Side Hustles. Author: Alex Mitchell

• 10 Minority-Founded Startups You Should Know, Watch, and Celebrate

  Over the past few years, I’ve written many, many, many lists of the top startups around the world to watch. But, regrettably, I haven’t yet written a post about the incredible startups founded by…

• Internationalize Your Website Today! | Marketing Mojo for Small Business

  Internationalize your website quickly and easily to grow your customer base. Author: Alex Mitchell

• The 10 YC Companies (W21) I’d Invest In | by Alex Mitchell | Mar, 2021 | Medium

  But first, here are my past YC posts if you want to check how my older picks have done. If you want to skip to the bottom, you can also see my own evaluation of my past picks for S20, W20, S19, W19…

• Product + Growth: Better Together - Noteworthy - The Journal Blog

  However, I’m writing about something a bit different today: How Product Managers and Growth Marketers can best work together. Surprisingly, this topic is not something that a lot of Product books…

• Medium | Alex Mitchell
• Disrupting Yourself: How to Succeed in the New Economy: Alex Mitchell, Melissa Marin, Craig Zingerline, Avinash Bajaj: 9781712469224: Amazon.com: Books

  Disrupting Yourself: How to Succeed in the New Economy [Alex Mitchell, Melissa Marin, Craig Zingerline, Avinash Bajaj] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. We are living in a time of massive, unbelievable, and relentless change. To put it ...

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• Courses for Aspiring, New & Leveling-Up PMs

  Alex Mitchell is currently the Director of Product at Kin Insurance, a 4x Product Leader and 1x Founder. Alex is also the Author of Building Digital ...

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• The 5 P’s of Product Management - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  It takes an insane amount of hard work and effort to become a Great Product Manager (I’m very much still on the journey myself). And once you get there, it takes more consistent work to stay at the…

• How to Succeed as a Product Manager | The Modern Product Manager

  Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a New (Or Not-So-New) Product Manager ($999 Value)

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• Values Matter Even When You're Growing Fast

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• Product Manager Summit

  Product Manager Summit. Speaker: Alex Mitchell

• Disrupting Yourself: How to Succeed in the New Economy - Kindle edition by Alex Mitchell, Melissa Marin, Craig Zingerline, Avinash Bajaj. Self-Help Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

  Disrupting Yourself: How to Succeed in the New Economy - Kindle edition by Alex Mitchell, Melissa Marin, Craig Zingerline, Avinash Bajaj. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking a...

• Top 10 Corona-Economy Startups to Watch in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  By popular demand, I’m releasing another edition of my “Top 10 Startups to Watch in 2020”. This time I’ll be focusing on Corona-Economy Startups. This list is of startups that are poised to succeed…

• Living in the Age of Immediate Answers

  It’s easy to assume that since information is so query-able, so immediate, and so accessible that the answers we provide to the questions in our personal and professional lives must be immediate as well. This assumption is wrong.

• 10 Tips for Hosting a Successful A/B Testing Hackathon

  You’ve probably heard of large scale hackathons like TechCrunch’s Disrupt NY or even seen company-wide hackathons promoted on blogs before. The gist of a hackathon is simple: put a lot of people in a big room together for two days with very few rules and see what they’re able to produce. The results are usually incredible. Author: Alex Mitchell

• The Right Way (And Wrong Way) To Prepare for a Product Manager Interview

  You’re on the verge of one of the most exciting and fast-growing careers today. Over the past decade, I’ve interviewed hundreds and hired dozens of Product Managers at Vistaprint Digital, Upside…

• Alex Mitchell - ProductHunt

  Alex Mitchell on ProductHunt

• Do You Know The Right Way To Raise Prices? | Marketing Mojo for Small Business

  Alex provides simple advice on the right and wrong ways to raise prices. Author: Alex Mitchell

• The Top 10 YouTube Channels for Product Managers | The Modern Product Manager

  Recently, I launched a new YouTube channel called The Modern Product Manager. The channel features content for Product Managers, startup people, and anyone interested in Tech. I’ve started my channel…

• Top 10 Latin American Startups to Watch in 2022 | by Alex Mitchell | Jan, 2022 | Medium

  2022 is going to be a very exciting year for LATAM startups. The region has rapidly grown and matured so much over the past decade that we’re on the cusp of the “year of the IPO” for the continent…

• You’re a Workaholic. It’s Time To Focus. - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  However, I’ve recently recognized that I’ve gone far, far too wide with testing new channels, new distribution, new content creation ideas, and it’s now time to focus. I’m writing this post to share…

• 50 B2B Lead Generation Ideas from the Experts

  Leads are the lifeblood of any B2B company; and we, for one, are never going to turn down ideas that can drum up more of them. Author: Alex Mitchell

• The 14 Most (And Least) Accurate Quotes about Product Management

  There are SO. MANY. QUOTES. about Product Management. Just Google “Product Management Quotes” and you’ll be bombarded by pages and pages of pithy one-liners that will make you a better PM (or so you…

• Alex Mitchell | Optimizely Blog

  Alex is Product Manager at Webs, the digital services business of Vistaprint and manages the Local Listings and Social Media Management products. When he's ...

• Product Manager as Designer - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Many startups I’ve worked for had a designer on every or every-other product engineering team and the relationship between those two team members was critical to successful development. Designers and…

• Alex Mitchell's Profile on OneProfile

  Alex Mitchell, Product Leader based in Washington, DC

• Top 10 Indian Startups to Watch in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  By popular demand, I’m releasing another edition of my “Top 10 [Location] Startups to Watch in 2020”. This time I’ll be focusing on Indian Startups. Each of these posts explores the unique…

• How to Incubate, Accelerate, or Just Plain Grow Your Startup | Marketing Mojo for Small Business

  Blog Post by Alex Mitchell

• If the Avengers Were Product Managers | by Alex Mitchell | Jul, 2020 | Medium

  It’s impossible to dispute how successful the Avengers series of movies has been. The 4 Avengers movies top the list of the most successful superhero films of all time. Each has made over $1B in…

• Here’s How to Find Time For Your Side Hustle - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  There are so many reasons I’ve heard people say to explain why they don’t have time to start working on a side hustle. I think I may have heard them all. And many of them are very, very valid. While…

• Top 10 African Startups to Watch in 2021 | by Alex Mitchell | Nov, 2020 | Medium

  As I’m writing this, it’s almost the end of 2020. There were certainly a lot of ups and downs this year to stay the least. A LOT of things changed around the world. I’m excited to write about many of…

• 5 Ways to Improve Customer Experience

  5 Ways to Improve Customer Experience (and Keep Customers Coming Back). Author: Alex Mitchell

• Alex Mitchell - Productized Conference 2017 Productized Conference ...

  Alex is passionate about creating and growing powerful web and mobile products, which make a significant impact in millions of people's lives. He also enjoys ...

• Building Digital Products - Growth Hackers

  Building Digital Products - Growth Hackers - Author: Alex Mitchell

• So You Just Became a Product Manager… - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Things to do (and not to do) in your first 90 days as a Product Manager. Author: Alex Mitchell

• Don’t be Digital-Only.

  Don’t be Digital-Only. When and How you Should Go Physical. Author: Alex Mitchell

• Will The Real Product Manager Please Stand Up? - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  The Product Management career has exploded over the past few years. Without a doubt, Product Managers are working in one of the most exciting and fast-growing careers today. Over the past decade…

• Top 10 European Startups to Watch in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  By popular demand, I’m releasing another edition of my “Top 10 [Location] Startups to Watch in 2020”. This time I’ll be focusing on European Startups. Each of these posts explores the unique…

• Crunchbase | Alex Mitchell

  Alex Mitchell's profile on Crunchbase

• Alex Mitchell (@Amitch5903) | Twitter

  The latest Tweets from Alex Mitchell (@Amitch5903). Director of Product @UpsideTravel. Love Digital Products + Analytics + Markets. https://t.co/MM92xlmbg2 Author: @producthandbook. Washington, DC.

• Alex's Blog Posts - Medium

  A collection of thoughts from Alex Mitchell.

• The Modern Product Manager

  With The Modern Product Manager, you'll learn from Alex Mitchell's insider startup and product perspective and get smarter each and every week on Product Man...

• Alex Mitchell - From idea to launch: The product development journey …

  An in-depth exploration of the challenges, learnings, and successes of bringing Vistaprint's latest Website Builder, code-named “Tower”, from idea to prototype…

• How to Get Product Experience Without Being a Product Manager | by Alex Mitchell | Sep, 2020 | Medium

  Over the past decade, the Product Management career has grown incredibly quickly and has become very, very popular. But, it’s also becoming harder than ever for aspiring Product Managers to break in…

• How To Be A Great Remote Product Manager with Alex Mitchell - Chief Product Officer at ICX Media by Prodcast • A podcast on Anchor

  On today's episode, I sit down with Alex Mitchell, Chief Product Officer at ICX Media Alex is an avid blogger on Medium and over the last year, Alex's posts have gotten over one million views.  Before COVID-19, Alex had worked in several compan...

• How I Reached 1 Million Views Per Year on Medium - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  This past week, I had 25k views of my stories on Medium. If you do the quick math, the annualized run-rate of 25k views per week is 25k * 52 weeks= 1.3M views (!) If you told me several years ago…

• An Open (Financial) Letter to Millennials

  An Open (Financial) Letter to Millennials. Author: Alex Mitchell

• 4-Step Guide To Personal Branding for Business Owners | Marketing Mojo for Small Business

  Blog Post by Alex Mitchell