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How Product Managers Deal With a Meddling CEO
October 1, 2018
How Product Managers Deal With a Meddling CEO

Dealing with a meddling CEO? Use your strategy to guide you and try to approach each interaction with your CEO as an opportunity to grow.

My Name Is Chris Swenson — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
September 28, 2018
My Name Is Chris Swenson — This Is Why I Joined Aha!

It was my own personal robot. As a kid, I had a Kronoform transformer watch that went from timepiece to toy with a few twists and turns. Although the watch itself was…

No One Has a Vision for Your Product — Now What?
September 25, 2018
No One Has a Vision for Your Product — Now What?

“Why are we building this?” This is a painful question for product managers. Maybe you have mumbled it when sales pushed through a new feature to close a deal. Or when…

Hey Product Manager: Stop Listening to the Sales Team
September 24, 2018
Hey Product Manager: Stop Listening to the Sales Team

Being a product manager is a balancing act. You need to be super responsive to the requests of colleagues and customers. But you also need to give them what they actually…

6 Free Business Plan Templates for Product Managers
September 20, 2018
6 Free Business Plan Templates for Product Managers

Lightweight business plans are not just for startups. These tools can be just as valuable for product managers at big companies with established products. Because even if…

Just Launched! — Enhanced Aha! + Jira Integration for Agile Sprint Planning
September 19, 2018
Just Launched! — Enhanced Aha! + Jira Integration for Agile Sprint Planning

Many of you rely on our enhanced integration with Jira to keep information flowing smoothly between product and engineering teams. And many of your engineering teams use…

The Founder’s Paradox: How to Create Space for New Ideas in a Company That Is Already Wildly Successful
September 18, 2018
The Founder’s Paradox: How to Create Space for New Ideas in a Company That Is Already Wildly Successful

What does it mean to “create space”? It is interesting because the word “space” is both vague and specific. It can be a blank area or a boundless expanse or even the…

What I Learned From My LinkedIn “Ask Me Anything”
September 17, 2018
What I Learned From My LinkedIn “Ask Me Anything”

I asked for questions. You did not disappoint. Last week, LinkedIn invited me to do an “Ask Me Anything” event as part of Aha! being named to their top startups list for…

My Name Is Justin Weiss — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
September 14, 2018
My Name Is Justin Weiss — This Is Why I Joined Aha!

I was three years old when my mom first brought home a computer for work. Back then, having a computer meant you also had to program it. As I got older, I wrote my own…

LinkedIn Asked Us to Tell You How We Became One of the Top 25 Startups of 2018 — So, Ask Me Anything
September 12, 2018
LinkedIn Asked Us to Tell You How We Became One of the Top 25 Startups of 2018 — So, Ask Me Anything

Aha! was named a LinkedIn top startup for 2018. Hear more from Aha! co-founder and CEO Brian de Haaff.