Product Coaching/courses
- How to Do Great Work - classic essay from Paul Graham. It’s worth reading to understand if product is the right role for you. He lays out a simply recipe for doing great work: work hard on excitingly ambitious projects, and something good will come of it.
- Product management courses on Maven | Unlock your career growth
- Stanford MS&E 265 - great self-paced PM course from Stanford. Lots of great templates.
- Lean Stack workshops, Ash Maruya
- List of PM courses
- https://www.venwise.com/experience - more focused on growth-stage startups. They support “pods” of leaders across different disciplines.
- Basically everything from Shreyas, e.g. 8. How to Become Unbeatable: On Learning Strategy, Building Your Model, and Being a Learning Machine
Commercial coaching options
General References
Books
Skewed toward entrepreneurship:
- Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters (good notes)
- Getting Things Done, David Allen
- Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
- High Output Management, Andy Grove
- Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
- Lean Analytics, Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
- Scaling Lean, Ash Maurya
- Shackleton’s Way, Margot Morrell
- Startup Owner’s Manual, Steve Blank
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- Traction, Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
- Value Proposition Design, Alexander Osterwalder
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
Book lists
- Books for Product Managers, Goodread
Videos/Podcasts
- 10x not 10%, Ken Norton
- Building a Great Software Business, Dharmesh Shah (Hubspot)
- Entrepreneurial Thought Leadership Series, Stanford — speaker series