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Q: I recently discovered your newsletter, and I’m finding it hard to browse your posts. Is there someplace I can find your best stuff, ideally grouped by topic?

After two and a half years of putting out this newsletter every single week, we’re now at over 150 posts. Discoverability has become a problem. So let’s fix that. Below, I’ve collected my best posts, from day one until today, roughly sorted by popularity, across nine topics:

1. 📈 Growth strategy

2. 🤌 Product management, the work

3. 🦸‍♀️ Product management, the career

4. 🔭 Finding product-market fit

5. 📣 Marketing and GTM

6. 🌱 Scaling your startup

7. 🎭 Marketplaces

8. 📊 Metrics

9. 💼 Management and career

Going forward, I’ll make this post a living document to track all the best stuff I put out across any channel, so bookmark it for future reference. And enjoy!

📈 Growth strategy

1. How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users

2. How the fastest-growing B2B businesses found their first 10 customers

3. Improving retention

4. Improving conversion

5. Increasing virality

6. Winning at content-driven growth

7. Winning at SEO

8. The Racecar Growth Framework

9. Magical growth loops

10. Flywheels, flywheels, flywheels

🤌 Product management, the work

1. Getting better at product strategy

2. My favorite product management templates

3. Prioritizing a roadmap

4. Getting buy-in

5. Where great product roadmap ideas come from

6. The Minto Pyramid Principle and the SCR framework

7. What Buddhism taught me about product management

🦸‍♀️ Product management, the career

1. How to get into product management (and thrive)

2. Should I become a product manager?

3. Becoming a senior product manager

4. My favorite PM interview questions

5. 14 habits of highly effective product managers

6. How to know if you’re doing a good job as a product manager

7. When to hire your first product manager

8. Surviving as the first product manager

9. Moving from IC product manager to manager of product managers

10. A comprehensive survey of product management

11. Product management career ladders

12. Startup PM vs. big-company PM

🔭 Finding product-market fit

1. How to know if you’ve got product-market fit

2. What it feels like when you’ve found product-market fit

3. How long it takes to find product-market fit

4. What to ask your users about product-market fit

📣 Marketing and GTM

1. Positioning

2. Generating buzz

3. Finding your distribution advantage

4. How people discover new products

5. Pricing your SaaS product

🌱 Scaling your startup

1. A playbook for fundraising

2. The secret to a great planning process

3. Increasing team velocity

4. Layering sales onto a bottom-up self-serve product

5. Winning at early-stage hiring

6. Healing your co-founder relationship

7. What seven years at Airbnb taught me about building a business

8. Building a referrals program

🎭 Marketplaces

1. How to kickstart and scale a marketplace business

2. How marketplaces win

3. How marketplaces fail

4. Evaluating a (marketplace) business idea

5. Choosing a take rate

6. Kickstarting supply in a labor marketplace

📊 Metrics

1. What is good retention?

2. Choosing your north-star metric

3. Setting goals

4. The most important consumer subscription metrics to track

5. The most important bottom-up SaaS metrics to track

💼 Management and career

1. Navigating your early career

2. Performance reviews

3. Managing up

4. On taking time off

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Have a fulfilling and productive week 🙏

🔥 Featured job opportunities

1. Snackpass: Product Manager, Payments (SF, NYC, LA, Remote)

2. Fabulous: Product Manager (Remote)

3. Stonks: Backend Web Developer, Founding team (Remote)

4. Gtmhub: Director of Product Management (Remote)

5. Gearflow: Full Stack Software Engineer, Buyer Experience (Chicago/Remote)

6. Contra: Project Manager (SF)

7. Otto: Senior Engineer (Remote)

8. Jetpack Workflow: Product Designer (UI/UX) (Remote)

9. Pallet: Full Stack Software Engineer (NYC/Remote)

10. Runway: Product Manager (Remote)

11. SwagUp: Director, Product Management (Dashboard) (Remote)

12. Whatnot: Product Manager (Remote)

13. Evisort: Senior Product Manager (Remote)

14. Truework: Senior Product Manager (SF)

Browse many more open roles, and add your own, at Lenny’s Job Board.

🧠 Inspiration for the week ahead

1. Watch: Creating a Space Game with OpenAI Codex

2. Read: The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist

3. Learn: On Presentations, by Siqi Chen

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Lenny 👋