Carlos González de Villaumbrosia

Types of Product Managers

The Product-Development Life Cycle

When working in lean or hybrid environments, you’ll often hear the phrase minimum viable product (MVP). This is a term from lean methodology that simply means, “What’s the most minimally featured thing you can build that will address the opportunity well for most of your target customers and validate your opportunity?” In other words, if you were to think about the core function you’re trying to let customers accomplish, what’s the simplest product you can build that lets them achieve that goal?

the iteration cycle.

Building the Solution

But the best product managers are ones who know they can’t define everything perfectly up front, and that it’s generally impractical to spend months trying to do so

With everything we do, we aim to challenge the status quo. We aim to think differently. Our products are user-friendly, beautifully designed, and easy to use. We just happen to make great computers. Want to buy one?

Revenue is validation that a company is doing the right thing for its customers—revenue should not be a company’s reason for existing

Customers will pay for your product because it makes their lives better, not because they want to give you money.

there are three distinct strategy phases startups, and by extension new products, go through: engagement, retention, and self-perpetuating. Startups that go through all three tend to turn into multibillion-dollar companies, whereas startups that get stuck in one phase commonly fail.