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• 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…

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• 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.

• Products I Can’t Live Without #3: Figma - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Recently, I wrote about Fullstory and Calendly as two of my favorite products and two products I would be very sad to live without. Today, I wanted to write about my absolute favorite design…

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• 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…

• My Favorite (Free) Coworking Place - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  My favorite co-working spot is free, is yours? Author: Alex Mitchell

• 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.

• Top 10 Podcasts for Product Managers in 2020 - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Subscribe to these podcasts and you’ll stay entertained all year long (and learn a thing or two!) Author: Alex Mitchell

• 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…

• 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…

• The Death of Thinking

  The Death of Thinking. Author: Alex Mitchell

• 6 Reasons Why All Product Managers Should Play Intramural Sports

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

• On My Shelf with Alex Mitchell — CPO at ICX Media ... - Medium

  Jul 11, 2019 — Building Digital Products. The Ultimate Handbook for Product Owners by Alex Mitchell. Why it's great for new PM's. Where The Product Book ...

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• The 5 Commandments of New User Onboarding

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

• 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…

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• 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…

• 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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• 10 Technologies That Can Help You (And Your Business) Survive the Holidays

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• 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…

• 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…

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• 7 Ways to Stand Out in a Crowded Product Management Job Market | by Alex Mitchell | Oct, 2020 | Medium

  Most weeks during the pandemic, I’ve spent between 5 and 10 hours coaching and mentoring aspiring Product Managers and Product Managers seeking their next challenge. P.S. If you’re looking for…

• 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…

• 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…

• 16 Essential Tools for Your Social Media Marketing Toolkit

  16 Essential Tools for Your Social Media Marketing Toolkit. A list of 16 social media marketing tools that will keep you sane AND reduce the amount of time you spend managing a successful social media presence for yourself or your clients. Author: Alex Mitchell

• Travel to See Your Team(s)

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

• Product Manager Summit

  Product Manager Summit. Speaker: Alex Mitchell

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• 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

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• Hackathons are better than [insert your favorite holiday]

  Hackathons are better than [insert your favorite holiday]. Upside Engineering Blog. Author: Alex Mitchell.

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

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

• Don’t be Digital-Only.

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

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• An Open (Financial) Letter to Millennials

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

• Top 10 Podcasts for Product Managers in 2022 | by Alex Mitchell | Jan, 2022 | Medium

  For the past 5 years, I’ve written about my favorite Product podcasts and it’s that magical time of year again! For a quick throwback, here are my past posts:

• 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 ...

• 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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  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.

• 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…

• Alex Mitchell - MVP Conf 2015

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

• 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

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• 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…

• Good Product Manager / Great Product Manager | by Alex Mitchell | Aug, 2020 | Medium

  Although there are certainly parts of the blog post that are out-of-date today, much of the spirit of the post holds up. In fact, I often still recommend it when I put together lists of top blog…

• 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.

• 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 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…

• Building Digital Products

  ProductHunt: The Ultimate Handbook for Digital Product Owners.

• Products I Can’t Live Without #4: Play.ht - Alex Mitchell - Medium

  Recently, I’ve written about Fullstory, Calendly, and Figma as 3 of my favorite products and 3 products I would be very sad to live without. Today, I wanted to write about a product I love because…

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• Alex's Blog Posts - Medium

  A collection of thoughts from Alex Mitchell.

• Reports of This Tech #Fail Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

  Most users hate change and rebel against it. How can major tech players redesign their products without losing loyalists?

• 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…

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• 5 Things I Learned on the Vistaprint RV

  5 Things I Learned on the Vistaprint RV

• Testing and Learning: How to Build Stakeholder Support + Create Evangelists - ProductLed Summit by ProductLed

  Experimentation is a critical part of the transition to product-led growth. It helps lower the "burden of change" to stakeholders, helps them see...

• 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…

• 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…

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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 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…

• 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…

• Spring Cleaning for Your Product

  Spring Cleaning for Your Product. Author: Alex Mitchell

• 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 ...

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

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

• 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

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

  As I’m writing this, it’s the beginning of 2021. There were certainly a lot of ups and downs last year to stay the least. Many things changed dramatically around the world. I’m excited to write about…

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• 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…

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• 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 ...

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

  Build Something with Upside Travel Product Manager Alex Mitchell

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

  Blog Post by Alex Mitchell

• Building Digital Products: Kindle Edition on Amazon

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

• Top 10 Middle East Startups to Watch in 2021 | by Alex Mitchell | Feb, 2021 | Medium

  There were certainly a lot of ups and downs in 2020 to stay the least. A LOT of things changed around the world. I’m excited to write about many of the incredibly impressive startups in the Middle…

• 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...

• Values Matter Even When You're Growing Fast

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• Never Stop (Side) Hustling

  Never Stop (Side) Hustling

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

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• 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

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  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 ...

• Top 10 Latin American 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…

• 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

• 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…

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  A portfolio of Alex Mitchell's Product projects.