Pre-revenue startups get distracted. Only 3 metrics matter at this stage. Reaching Product Market Fit is like crossing a desert. Very few will survive. Mirages of PMF happen all the time. It takes months, sometimes years, before charging your users. You need to know if you’re heading in the right direction. You…

Everyone should take product decisions in a startup. Not only product managers, or founders. Everyone. Overcentralized decisions hurt. For lots of pre-product market fit startups, it’s not clear who should take product decisions. There is an easy answer to that. By priority order it should be: 1. everyone 2. founders 3. specialist…

Early stage startups, your product execution speed is everything. But how can you go fast with so few resources? One solution: being scrappy. Product teams, you don’t have time to do all the things you should. No time to run a great discovery, or to organize feedback. …

Once in a while, a company comes up with a fresh new design that rapidly spreads, like fire. This happened with Linear which brings an Apple-like design to work software. Minimalistic and premium looking. Once startups decided to follow this path. This design moved from being marginal to more mainstream. …

Traditional product management is useless at early stage. It adds friction, decreases the delivery pace, and reduces impact. But you can adjust that. Product management in pre Product-Market Fit (PMF) is a very little understood concept. Product managers, you are not to blame. You learned your job in post-PMF environments…

Talking to customers is scary. Startups never do it enough. Lack of time, no clear processes, fear, and ego. You can change that with automation. Talking to customers makes us vulnerable. It’s the same reason why we delay going to the doctor. It’s one of the hardest things to do…

Asynchronous communication doesn’t make a company remote. Trying to translate in-office culture into digital neither. So what does? Having a poor remote culture has disastrous effects. Teams aren’t happy. They aren’t productive, or even aligned on what needs to be built. As human beings, we’re more complex than that. …

Early-stage Product Managers, you’ve been lied to. You were told to do a bit of everything. But doing the splits hurts your company. You can regain focus with the Product Management Yin and Yang. If you’re a product manager (PM) you’re maybe juggling with 10 things. …

“Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du cœur, comme chaque fruit son ver.” - Alexandre Dumas C’est l’histoire d’un enfant qui se découvre une passion et décide de renouer avec 20 ans plus tard. 6 ans, découverte de la Game Boy. Chaque année ma marraine m’offre…