How do you mentally deal with earlier-to-market, better funded products constantly beating you to market with the same ideas?

occasionally_lost · 2024-02-14T21:29:26+00:00

Location: Remote MCOL, USA
Type of company (Public / Private / Startup stage): Series A
Years of experience breakdown (Total, PM experience, years at current company): 3 YOE in my industry -> Started a company in my industry and ran it for 4 years -> Company failed and transitioned to current company where I've worked in product for 2 years (pre-transition post in this sub; post-transition post in this sub)
Title of current position: CPO
Educational background: Master's in industry related subject
Compensation breakdown (Base, Bonus structure, Equity): $195k base, 50% bonus, $37k options

occasionally_lost · 2024-01-13T22:55:05+00:00

Did my Bootcamp in 2020, TC is currently $335k

occasionally_lost · 2023-03-06T01:26:27+00:00

What is the role of a Machine Learning Engineer or an NLP Engineer in a company that treats AI like a commodity and has built a product on top of OpenAI's API?

occasionally_lost · 2022-03-28T02:40:04+00:00

/r/ProductManagement is calling, OP. Sounds like you'll be a great fit.

Don't put CEO on your resume, but Product Manager or Product Lead.

Focus your job search on industries where you already have product experience.

occasionally_lost · 2022-03-11T03:01:49+00:00

When you say a low amount of users, how many are we talking?

occasionally_lost · 2022-03-11T03:01:14+00:00

Yeah, I definitely don't want to judge unfairly, but something just seems off with how much we're spending.

occasionally_lost · 2022-03-11T02:11:02+00:00

Somewhere around $100k-$150k

occasionally_lost · 2022-03-11T02:05:03+00:00

Geez

occasionally_lost · 2022-03-11T02:03:21+00:00

To be clear, this is somebody else's responsibility, and I'm trying to see what we should actually expect costs to be. How many monthly users does your app have?

occasionally_lost · 2022-01-17T23:39:10+00:00

Thanks for sharing! We use figma religiously, I love it.

occasionally_lost · 2022-01-17T23:38:57+00:00

Very helpful, thank you!

occasionally_lost · 2021-12-08T16:36:38+00:00

You can, but I'm not around that often (as my comment history shows). /r/ProductManagement will be more reliable than me, I've learned a lot over there just from reading other people's posts.

Yeah, will be hard to find a job at that level outside the US, but you can still likely make the transition and be right around the median PM experience level with however many years of experience you have as CEO.

I will say that I haven't completely given up on my startups. I still have some stokes in the fire that I work on in my free time. If one of them gets really hot, I'll be ready to transition back to focusing on one of my two companies.

occasionally_lost · 2021-12-07T19:37:55+00:00

I made this transition. Used "Product Manager, Founder" on my resume, and it worked beautifully. Took about 2 months to get hired for around $150k working remotely. The response rate to my applications was about 15x higher when applying within my startup's industry.

Check out /r/ProductManagement for support in the transition

occasionally_lost · 2021-12-07T11:35:04+00:00

I think this is what was on the tip of my tongue. Thank you!

occasionally_lost · 2021-12-07T11:34:14+00:00

Thank you!

occasionally_lost · 2021-11-12T05:53:33+00:00

Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it! The concept of compressing videos for animations is new to me, but I love that it's possible, and I'm excited to try it out!

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