3 most valuable PM skillsets

1. How to get Product Discovery

• Widely focus on problem statement

• Uncover the problem of the customer between urgent and important aspects of the pain points

• Build as per the persona as possible

  • Who is the user - Define it correctly

  • If we have the secondary persona, call it too

    • Example: The long and winding road to Electric cars - The problem is widespread: Because Gas is causing problems, environmentally it's expensive. so it's worth solving enough.

2. Feature Prioritization - be it ruthless

• Building a feature for one deal is not a big thing, if that customer is the right ICP persona, then it is perfectly fine.

• Build small, feedback, and iterate (Repeat mode)

• Feature for buyer vs user (think about who you build for this? it depends but be aware of that)

  • In the long run, the User will drive the brand, Buyer will buy because the users ask them to.

    • Example: Slack thread vs Slack Catch up (little feature design can bring major innovation)

3 . Listen and ask the questions

• Understand the problem better than the solution - Go deep into the problem/Pain points and check on why it is so important

• Ask how they solve without your product ( or What if the product disappears completely from your life?)

• Challenge your assumptions and go with a blank slate (Remove the bias)

Learning from large company PM roles:

• Pricing and Packaging

• Customer Communication (Updates on the product, feature release, etc)

• Link feature requests to customer acts and expected revenue

Why PMs Make the Best Future Founders:

1. Finding clarity of the pain points and find solutions

2. Context switching

3. Customer centricity - if you cannot decide, can come back to the customer

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