As Mixpanel's VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. Distilling knowledge from multiple …
Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from …
When presented with dozens of options to serve the needs of users and stakeholders, product managers are uniquely empowered to …
Have you ever told someone what they wanted to hear because it was the path of least resistance? “Yes, let's totally …
Congratulations! You’ve used a detailed spec and careful interview process to make a really solid hire to your product management …
You’ve done all the end-of-year analyses; celebrated your successes and learned from your failures; and eaten the last of the …
Hi, I’m Mike and I'm a product manager. The product I manage? Product managers. As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, …
In the age of data and analytics, we’ve come to believe that, with enough data, we can make smart decisions …
Every product or service has a core purpose it serves for its customers. For a ride-sharing app, it may be …
One of the best things I learned at Amazon was that customers are always “beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied,” and no matter …
One of the hardest things about using metrics to guide and strengthen your product and your team is that there …
Imagine you run a lemonade stand. You meticulously track how many people purchase from your stand each week, because that’s …
At Mixpanel, we relentlessly monitor customer feedback and take customer requests very seriously. So in the middle of last year, …
By 2015, Matthew Black was a veteran of the startup world. He’d founded two companies; one exited successfully (“a cool …
User adoption, sometimes called onboarding, is the process by which new users become acclimated to a product or service and …
If the environment were in a boxing match with capitalism, it wouldn’t exactly be winning. But rather than fomenting guilt, …
What is a product launch? A product launch is when a company debuts a new or significantly updated product. Launches are …
User segmentation is the practice of bucketing users into groups based on common characteristics (e.g., region, age, device, or behavior). …
What I treasure most about writing for The Signal–besides working with my lovely team–has been the opportunity to learn from the …
