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The Product Manager asterisk

TechCrunch

Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. Product managers need to realize that there is a lot of janitorial work that gets done in product management,” he said.

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Revery gets $2M to improve mental health with mobile gaming techniques

TechCrunch

Revery wants to help with an app that combines cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for insomnia with mobile gaming concepts. Before launching the startup, Siew worked at Sequoia Capital India, Boston Consulting Group and CRED, while Tran was a former product manager at Google. Revery’s team on a Zoom call.

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Turkey’s Spyke raises $55M in a seed round to bring a social twist to casual mobile games

TechCrunch

Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak ( acquired by Zynga for $1.8 Spyke Games , which hopes to bring a new dimension to casual games by using multiplayer functionality and other social elements, has raised $55 million in a seed round of funding.

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a16z-backed Rooms.xyz lets you build interactive, 3D rooms and simple games in your browser

TechCrunch

Prior to Rooms, Toff spent ten years at Google, off and on, in product marketing and product management, including at YouTube, Area 120, and in VR/AR. Before that, he spent a couple of years at Vine as Product Manager, including after it was acquired by Twitter. and music-making app Collab , among other things.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Success in product management goes beyond delivering great features - it’s about achieving measurable financial outcomes that resonate across the organization. In this webinar, we'll highlight the critical importance of business and financial acumen in product management. Register now to save your seat!

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IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management

TechCrunch

This is IBM’s first acquisition of 2023, and StepZen and its team will become a part of IBM’s Software unit, said Kareem Yusuf, the unit’s SVP of product management and growth. IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You already know the game and how it is played: you’re the coordinator who ties everything together, from the developers and designers to the executives.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. Don't miss King’s data expert (dare we say king?)