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• Disrupting Yourself (Book) - How to Succeed in the New Economy | Product Hunt

  We are living in a time of massive, unbelievable, and relentless change. Disrupting Yourself will help you advance in your career, gain control over your life, master continuous learning, build a recognizable brand, and diversify your skills and income.

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• 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

• Build Something with Upside Travel Product Manager - Product School Blog

  Build Something with Upside Travel Product Manager Alex Mitchell

• Top 10 Latin American Startups to Watch in 2021 - GrowthHackers

  Despite the pandemic, many companies in the LatAm startup community are thriving - here is who to watch in 2021!

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• 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.

• The Top 25 Videos for Product Managers | by Alex Mitchell | Jul, 2020 | Medium

  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…

• 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…

• Alex Mitchell, Internet

  Alex Mitchell, Director of Product at Kin Insurance. eCommerce, SaaS, Mobile Development, and Optimization specialist. The authoritative source of Alex ...

• Small Business Success Story: Majestic Wonders Photography

  Small Business Success Story: Majestic Wonders Photography. Every few weeks, we feature Webs users here on the blog and highlight many of the interesting ways that they are using Webs to create truly stunning websites. Author: Alex Mitchell

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• 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…

• Alex Mitchell – Audio Books, Best Sellers, Author Bio

  Learn more about Alex Mitchell. Browse Alex Mitchell's best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. Discover more authors you'll love listening to on Audible.

• 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…

• 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…

• The 10 YC Companies (S17) I’d Invest In

  The 10 YC Companies (S17) I’d Invest In. Author: Alex Mitchell.

• Product Manager Summit

  Product Manager Summit. Speaker: Alex Mitchell

• Top 10 Chrome Extensions for Small Businesses

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• 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…

• How to Be a Great *Remote* Product Manager - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  One of the main reasons I write is because it forces me to research, it forces me to learn, and it forces me to coalesce and refine my ideas down to their simplest, most crisp form before sharing…

• An Open (Financial) Letter to Millennials

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

• 10 Things to Include in Your Small Business Local Listings

  10 Things to Include in Your Small Business Local Listings. To help you cover all your bases, we’ve put together these 10 best practices to help ensure that not only will you show up in local searches, you’ll show up first! Author: Alex Mitchell

• Top 10 Indian Startups to Watch in 2021 | by Alex Mitchell | Dec, 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…

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• Travel to See Your Team(s)

  The 5 key reasons you need to visit your remote teams in person.

• 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.

• Building Digital Products

  Building Digital Products is designed for the new product owner who feels in way over their head, the experienced product owner looking to step up his or her game, and the expert product owner who understands that there is always more to learn.

• 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

• 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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• 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…

• 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…

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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

• Top 10 Podcasts for Product Managers in 2018

  The top 10 podcasts for Product Managers and everyone else in Tech looking to grow in 2018.

• Upside: Team and Careers
• 6 Reasons Why All Product Managers Should Play Intramural Sports

  6 Reasons Why All Product Managers Should Play Intramural Sports. Author: Alex Mitchell

• Snapchat: Should Your Small Business Care? | Marketing Mojo for Small Business

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  Alex Mitchell has taken control of his online presence by opening a LookUpPage . Join Alex Mitchell on LookUpPage - it’s quick, free and easy to use.

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• Top 10 Audiobooks for Product Managers of All Levels in 2020

  Actually, they’ve had a great decade, recording double-digit revenue growth each year over the last 7 years (Audio Publishers Association) and reaching nearly $1B in revenue in 2018. One in five…

• Alex Mitchell's Profile on OneProfile

  Alex Mitchell, Product Leader based in Washington, DC

• 2014 Crowdfunding Landscape | EMPOWRR

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• Top 10 Podcasts for Product Managers

  Top 10 Podcasts for Product Managers

• My Most Challenging Product Launch: My First Book

  My Most Challenging Product Launch: My First Book. 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 Middle East Startups to Watch in 2022 | by Alex Mitchell | Dec, 2021 | Medium

  Over the past several weeks, I’ve written about two of the fastest-growing startup ecosystems: Pakistan and Africa. In this post, I cover the equally exciting and rapidly maturing MENA (Middle East…

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• Build vs. Buy: The Ultimate Product Owner Decision

  Each and every week, I make at least one build vs. buy decision for the digital products I manage. Author: Alex Mitchell

• 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…

• The Modern Product Manager • A podcast on Anchor

  With The Modern Product Manager, you'll learn from Alex Mitchell's insider startup perspective and get smarter each and every week on Product Management, working remotely, investing, startups, and tech.

• Why I ran a solo marathon (with no training)

  I hate running. I love challenges. Author: Alex Mitchell

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

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• Why Product Managers Need Continuous Research | by Alex Mitchell | Jun, 2021 | Medium

  For anyone who’s ever been a Product Manager, I don’t need to tell you that it’s a busy, noisy, challenging, mile-a-minute, exciting, and often, pretty stressful job. You’re trying to balance…

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• The 7 Stages of Remote Work - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  The Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has thrust many people into remote work for the first time and the results have been interesting, to say the least. I’ve put together this light-hearted 7 Stages of…

• 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 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Product Owner

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

• Top 10 Crowdfunding Campaigns | EMPOWRR

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• The Death of Thinking

  The Death of Thinking. Author: Alex Mitchell

• Building Digital Products: Kindle Edition on Amazon

  The Ultimate Handbook for Product Owners - Author: Alex Mitchell. Kindle Edition.

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  ProductHunt: The Ultimate Handbook for Digital Product Owners.

• Want To Know What Your Customers Want? Ask Them. | Marketing Mojo for Small Business

  Blog Post by Alex Mitchell

• 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…

• 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 ...

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• Why Product Managers Hate Vacations

  Why Product Managers Hate Vacations - Author: Alex Mitchell

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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…

• 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…

• 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)

• 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…

• What’s a Rolling Fund and Why Are They So HOT Right Now?🔥🔥🔥 | by Alex Mitchell | Sep, 2020 | Medium

  A “Rolling Fund” is a new type of investment vehicle that allows its managers to invest at their discretion in opportunities on behalf of investors (often referred to as “limited partners”). Rolling…

• 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…

• The Importance of Celebrating Launches and Team Milestones

  The Importance of Celebrating Launches and Team Milestones. Author: Alex Mitchell

• The 5 Commandments of New User Onboarding

  Onboarding is the most ignored part of web and mobile app development. Author: Alex Mitchell

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• Alex Mitchell – Upside Engineering Blog

  Nov 8, 2017 - Read writing from Alex Mitchell in Upside Engineering Blog. CPO @ICXMedia. Previously Product @UpsideTravel. Love Digital Products + ...

• Top 10 Pakistani Startups to Watch in 2022 | by Alex Mitchell | Oct, 2021 | Medium

  When I began writing my “Startups to Watch” posts several years ago, I started with China and India, uncovering many startups that have now gone on to become unicorns (and, in the near future, some…

• 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 ...

• You Are Now a “Wartime” Product Manager - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  It goes without saying, but these are unprecedented times. Welcome to your biggest challenge and your biggest opportunity as a Product Manager. The last few weeks have likely been extremely trying…

• 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…

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• Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Product Managers — 2020 | by Alex Mitchell | Nov, 2020 | Medium

  It’s been a long year, to say the least. But the holidays are close and everyone’s favorite shopping holiday, Black Friday, is even closer! Earlier this year, I shared a list of 25 Perfect Gifts for…

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

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• 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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• 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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• Top 10 European 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…

• 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…

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  Find Meetups and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

• 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