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

TechCrunch

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. She said the team there “unintentionally” built in social elements into Toy Blast and “stumbled” on to a community of players.

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Amie is a new calendar app with a social twist

TechCrunch

Amie was founded by Dennis Müller, who previously worked as a product manager for challenger bank N26. and several business angels, backed the company early on so that it could work on its product without too much pressure. Creandum backs Amie, a new productivity app from ex-N26 product manager Dennis Müller.

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Fail Well, Pivot Fast: Product Experimentation for Continuous Discovery

Speaker: William Haas Evans - Principal Consultant, Head of Product Strategy & Design Practice, Kuroshio Consulting

The purpose and value of experimentation (from a scientific and product perspective) is to produce new information. From a product discovery/product management perspective, the purpose of experimentation is to focus our efforts on invalidating our assumptions to reduce the risk of developing and going-to-market with the wrong product.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO

As project-based business practices give way to product-focused cross-functional teams, the product manager role is taking on prominence, increasingly attracting interest from job candidates who might otherwise go into IT. Do product managers make good money? As you grow in your career, so will your salary.

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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’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. Product managers for AI need to lead that rethinking.