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Why most product managers suck (and how to be a better one)

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by on May 11, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Vik Singh is CEO and co-founder of Infer, a provider of data-powered business applications, with customers such as Tableau, SurveyMonkey, Zendesk, New Relic, AdRoll, Box, and Cloudera. The first product manager (PM) is a crucial unicorn hire that no startup should compromise on. The reason is simple – your PM is responsible for managing your team’s most precious resource: time. Unfortunately, nearly everyone seems to think they’d make a great PM (engineers, consultants, you name it), but the reality is that most folks just can’t hack it. I’ve worked with countless PMs at huge companies like Yahoo and Google, and over…

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A step-by-step guide to effectively managing an outsourced content marketing team

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by on May 11, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a professional speaker and a freelance writer. This article originally appeared on the Skyword blog. According to a recent study by the Content Marketing Institute, 44 percent of B2B marketers rely on outsourcing content creation such as writing, design, content distribution, and editing. Of B2B marketers, a full 57 percent of technology marketers outsource their content marketing team. It is evident that outsourcing content is a more effective and cost-efficient approach to constructing and executing a successful content strategy for many B2B businesses, especially B2B tech. The goal of your content team should be to help your company create engaging content, distribute…

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Amazing Jailbreak tweak brings true multitasking support to the iPad

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by on May 11, 2014 at 10:28 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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One of the biggest selling points that Microsoft has against Apple is the fact that the iPad lacks the ability to operate two or more apps simultaneously, but a new jailbreak tweak shows that the iPad is more than capable of doing two things at once. The new tweak, which recently hit Cydia is called “OS Experience” and completely transforms the iPad into a multi-tasking capable machine with almost no effort required. Once installed, you’re able to run two applications side by side, drag them between desktops like on OS X and even snap them to the edges of the…

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