I was with Mind Candy yesterday at the SiliconMilkRoundabout looking for some new talent 
It was a great day and it was really exciting to see so many London startups in one space. I haven’t seen anything like it in London before. What really pleased me was that all the companies were product companies. I remember the first dot com boom and London was a buzz on agencies that were growing like crazy to build websites for everyone and anyone.
Product companies are far more interesting in my eyes, they get to create and learn about market fit. They need to do Agile, Customer Discovery and focus on user experience to be successful. Which is all the stuff I love.
I am really looking forward to the next one.
posted by Dharmesh
As a product manager you are with a product throughout its whole lifetime. One of things to be mindful of are the different mental phase transitions that you must go through to ensure that your product’s first slice gets out of the door.
The last 10% is a key point where you must double or triple your efforts otherwise you will never ship. It is the point where your stories are complete and it kinda feels like it is done. That is the moment where people want to go to the new exciting project and it is the time when as a product manager you must start to really push.
This is the moment where you are regression testing, bug fixing, performance testing and working with ops to ensure that it can go into a production environment.
Remember to keep super focussed and to keep everyone on track. This is the hard bit and you also have to become harder and bloody minded about it otherwise you will never ship. Once you ship you will change mindset again and you can start getting real learning that will help you iterate your product and generate maximum value and revenue.
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