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Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World

Product management is a career that can leave you drained or thrilled, sometimes both at once. It suits people who want to shift big things, and its pace, its influence and its chance of spectacular success or failure draw in many who work at it. Few jobs resemble it. This guide sets out to help readers step into that role. The title itself is slippery, because companies use the label in ways that differ from one another, and pinning down what a product manager does can feel like wrestling with a tangled landscape. Even so, the effort pays off, since the terrain is complicated and well worth mapping.

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