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Opaper takes the friction out of social commerce

TechCrunch

After graduating, McIntosh’s professional life became decidedly more high tech—she was senior product manager for data and machine learning platforms at Streetlight Data and then Lacuna Technologies. Opaper was launched to give social commerce sellers the same type of convenience.

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Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round

TechCrunch

A women-led startup called Honeycomb is launching its private social app for families, backed by $4 million in seed funding led by Peter Boyce at Stellation Capital. Honeycomb itself was co-founded by CEO Amelia Lin , previously of Udacity and Optimizely, and former Instagram product manager Nicole Wee.

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Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief

TechCrunch

The startup from former Google engineers launched last year to offer a subscription-based news summary app that aimed to tackle many of the problems with today’s news cycle, including information overload, burnout, media bias and algorithms that promoted engagement over news accuracy. Twitter declined to share deal terms.

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Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy

TechCrunch

Product Hunt, and then TikTok. Michael Houck , a former product manager at Airbnb and Uber, rented a home in Tulum, Mexico in May 2020. Residents include former startup fellowship participants from On Deck , product managers and solo entrepreneurs. How do you actually launch a consumer product?

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Social media summit

Lead on Purpose

Filed under: Techology , Market-driven , Product Management / Marketing Tagged: | social media , Chris Brogan , Julien Smith , Mitch Joel , community , tribe « Leadership and learning Five championship strategies » Like Be the first to like this post.

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Live video shopping startup Talkshoplive brings in another $6M

TechCrunch

million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams. Talkshoplive CEO Bryan Moore said he founded the company with his sister Tina in 2018, after he led social media efforts at Twentieth Television (previously known as Twentieth Century Fox) and CBS Television. “We

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Involvement and impact of AI in Product management: interview with Rutger de Wijs

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Product Management Consultant Rutger de Wijs shares his view on why and how AI can be leveraged by Product Managers to increase the value of their products. At the beginning of my career (in the 2010s), I worked at an advertising tech startup as a BI Manager. Earlier I mentioned Spotify.