Raye Dawson @PM_Raye

Sometimes I get overwhelmed and tend to say things I shouldn’t. @X got me emotional, sorry to anyone I’ve insulted lately…it came out of the place of love for my country. God Bless Naija! 🇳🇬

Skip the startup podcasts. Skip the inspirational tweets. Ship your product. The rest is noise.

Income feeds you. Capital frees you. Know the difference.

@ProductHunt @productschool @productboard @MyPath2Product 5/ Success It Not # Of Features Disguised as “Product Managers” jobs, many companies are looking for Project/Program managers to bring projects to completion. You can ask: - How do PMs on here spend most of their time? - How is success measured for PMs? and there's more...

@ProductHunt @productschool @productboard @MyPath2Product Ask these to know whether you have authority over the backlog: 1. Who decides what goes in the roadmap in planning cycles? 2. Who has the final saying on what goes in the roadmap? 3. What was the last feature that your team build and who made the decision to build it?

4/ Authority Over Backlog Most common traps that your control over backlog is symbolic: - HIPPOs - No good Product culture and Eng leads the roadmap Working on Jira and moving tickets is not the same as having authority over the backlog. A few questions you can ask 👇

3/ PM And PO Are Not The Same PM = Job PO = Role within Scrum You can easily spot roles that treat them the same as they’ll typically include: - Product Owner - Scrum, - SAFe - User Stories - Acceptance Tests Run Away... ...Here are some that you can spot in interviews 👇

2/ Focus On Impact, Not Level I know CPOs with < 4 years of exp and Sr. PMs with 10. Titles tend to be less important. I check for 2 things on Job Description: - Is the product a core product for the company? (high visibility) - Does job describe more Strategy work? (Sr. PM+)

1/ Job Should Match The Title Job descriptions that are not really a Product Manager role make it sound "exciting" including things such as: - Ownership - Work with customers - Work with engineers But the rest of qualifications and responsibilities don't match what PMs do.

5 Things I check to avoid bad PM roles Job Description: - Job should match title - Focus on the impact, not level - PM and PO are not interchangeable During Interviews: - Authority over backlog - Succes is not # of features Let me explain each one of them...

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I didn’t know how to code, so spent years programming until shipped first app didn’t know how to build a business so I launched 15 companies until one made money didn’t know to create content so I posted 1000 tiktoks until one went viral didn’t know how to build a team so…

Stop chasing people who don’t want your product. Convincing ≠ selling. Show it to the right audience instead.

Have you ever felt scared to share your startup idea on X, thinking someone might steal it?

Which one? Bootstrapped startup or VC-backed?

What’s harder, finding your first customer or your first cofounder?

Is vibe coding a trend or a new power? 🤔

My feed lately: ‘$20k MRR. No app name.’ Me: Must be real. 🙃

Shopify is getting integrated into ChatGPT. Now that it's official and no longer a secret, let me finally break down how SEO Stuff (seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack…) has quietly been getting traffic + sales for online stores over the last few months **specifically* through ChatGPT and…

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The most brilliant life hack is very simple: Decide what matters and ignore everything else. Then, execute on that daily until reality catches up with your vision.