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Becoming a Product Manager

Good product manager, bad product manager | Khosla Ventures

Must Read

So you say you want to be a Product Manager ...? - Hacker Noon

Basically throws a bunch of things your way on what Product Management basically means

What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Behind every great product | Khosla Ventures

Noah Weiss on Twitter

Set of skillsets a great PM has

Good group product manager | Khosla Ventures

Writing PRDs

How to write a good product requirements document (PRD) | Khosla Ventures

Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother?

4 part series, a very very good read

How to Think

First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge

Setting up Product Function

Stripe Atlas: Elad Gil on building a great product management organization.

Basics of setting up PM Team


Other

Tiny Wins

Good article on tiny wins in product. We get lost on big features, big wins etc. while customer delight can be attained with some really small wins

Invisible asymptotes

Talks about businesses hitting the growth plateau after the hockey stick stage


Books

  1. Lean Startup
  2. Hard Thing about Hard Things
  3. Zero to One
  4. Snow Crash (not a PM book,read if you are into fiction, used to be a must read for Silicon Valley PMs in early 2000s)