K, I got @arvidkahl 's book The Embedded Entrepreneur.

I'll be live-tweeting quotes as I read it over the next couple of days.

Here we go.

"At first, communities are hunting grounds for great opportunities, then they turn into places to build meaningful relationships, and later they'll be the fertile soil in which you will grow your business." - @arvidkahl, The Embedded Entrepreneur
"Every day, a developer some where considers building another variation of an existing tool. They build this because they need it themselves,
but they don't consider if their need is a commonly shared one." - @arvidkahl, The Embedded Entrepreneur
"No business was ever successfully built by a founder who didn't care about the people they were selling their product to." - @arvidkahl, The Embedded Entrepreneur
"For bootstrappers, a market has to be both large enough to sustain your business and small enough not to attract giant competitors." - @arvidkahl, The Embedded Entrepreneur
"As a general rule, people will pay for a solution:

🪙 if it saves them time

🪙 if it saves them money

🪙 if it makes them money

If your solution does all 3, you've hit the jackpot." - @arvidkahl, The Embedded Entrepreneur

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"I really want to break into Product Management"

make products.

"If only someone would tell me how I can get a startup to notice me."

Make Products.

"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."

MAKE PRODUCTS.

Courtesy of @edbrisson's wonderful thread on breaking into comics –
https://t.co/TgNblNSCBj – here is why the same applies to Product Management, too.


There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.

You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.

But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.

And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.

They find their own way.