Topic: product-management
378 skills in this topic.
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finding-mentors-sponsors
Help users build relationships with mentors and sponsors for career growth. Use when someone is looking for career guidance, wants to find a mentor, needs an advocate at work, is trying to build their professional network, or asking how to get advice from senior leaders.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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founder-sales
Help founders close their first customers and build repeatable sales processes. Use when someone is doing founder-led sales, trying to get their first customers, writing cold outreach, running early sales calls, or asking when to hire their first salesperson.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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fundraising
Help founders raise capital and build investor relationships. Use when someone is preparing a pitch deck, deciding whether to raise venture capital, meeting with investors, or asking about fundraising strategy.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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giving-presentations
Help users create and deliver compelling presentations. Use when someone is preparing a talk, building a slide deck, dealing with presentation anxiety, practicing for a keynote, or asking how to be more engaging when presenting.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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having-difficult-conversations
Help users navigate tough feedback, performance conversations, and conflict. Use when someone needs to give hard feedback, have a performance conversation, fire someone, address conflict with a colleague, or deliver disappointing news like a denied promotion.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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launch-marketing
Help users plan and execute product launches. Use when someone is planning a product launch, preparing PR outreach, coordinating a go-to-market campaign, launching on Product Hunt, or asking how to generate buzz for a new feature or product.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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managing-imposter-syndrome
Help users work through feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt. Use when someone feels like a fraud, doubts their qualifications, is anxious about being "found out," or struggling with confidence in a new or challenging role.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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managing-tech-debt
Help users manage technical debt strategically. Use when someone is dealing with legacy code, planning refactoring work, deciding between rewrites vs. incremental fixes, trying to get buy-in for tech debt reduction, or balancing new features with maintenance.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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managing-timelines
Help users set and hit realistic deadlines. Use when someone is planning project timelines, struggling to hit deadlines, dealing with timeline pressure from stakeholders, or trying to improve estimation accuracy.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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managing-up
Help users work effectively with their manager and executives. Use when someone is struggling with their manager relationship, needs to influence leadership, wants to get better at executive communication, or is trying to build trust with their boss.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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marketplace-liquidity
Help users build and manage marketplace liquidity. Use when someone is working on a marketplace business, struggling with supply/demand balance, trying to improve match rates, or asking how to reach critical mass in a two-sided market.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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measuring-product-market-fit
Help users assess and achieve product-market fit. Use when someone is trying to determine if they have PMF, measuring user engagement and retention, running the Sean Ellis survey, or figuring out if they should scale or keep iterating.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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media-relations
Help users build relationships with journalists and get press coverage. Use when someone is pitching reporters, preparing for media outreach, trying to get press coverage, or managing ongoing journalist relationships.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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negotiating-offers
Help users negotiate job offers and compensation. Use when someone is negotiating salary, equity, or other terms of a job offer, preparing for a compensation conversation, or asking how to ask for more money.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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onboarding-new-hires
Help users onboard new team members effectively. Use when someone is planning onboarding for a new hire, starting a new job themselves, designing a first-90-days plan, or trying to ramp up new employees faster.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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organizational-design
Help users design effective organizational structures. Use when someone is thinking about team structure, deciding between functional vs. divisional models, planning a reorg, or figuring out how to structure product teams.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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organizational-transformation
Help users transform organizations toward modern product practices. Use when someone is trying to shift from feature teams to product teams, introduce empowered teams, modernize legacy processes, or drive cultural change in how product is built.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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partnership-bd
Help users build strategic partnerships and business development deals. Use when someone is pursuing a partnership, negotiating a BD deal, working with platforms like Google or Facebook, or trying to build distribution through partners.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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personal-productivity
Help users manage their time and tasks more effectively. Use when someone is overwhelmed with work, struggling with focus, trying to balance multiple responsibilities, or asking how to get more done.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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planning-under-uncertainty
Help users plan products and strategy when outcomes are unpredictable. Use when someone is dealing with ambiguous timelines, building in fast-moving markets, planning AI/ML projects, or asking how to make commitments when they don't know what will happen.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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platform-infrastructure
Help users build and scale internal platforms and technical infrastructure. Use when someone is deciding whether to build vs buy tooling, designing developer platforms, creating shared services, or managing technical debt at scale.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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platform-strategy
Help users design and execute platform business strategies. Use when someone is building a marketplace, creating an ecosystem, deciding on API strategy, thinking about multi-sided network effects, or building developer platforms.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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positioning-messaging
Help users craft product positioning and messaging. Use when someone is launching a product, differentiating from competitors, writing marketing copy, struggling to explain what their product does, or working on value propositions and taglines.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604
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post-mortems-retrospectives
Help users run effective post-mortems and retrospectives. Use when someone is reviewing a project that succeeded or failed, wants to establish learning practices, is dealing with failure aftermath, or needs to improve team learning loops.
RefoundAI/lenny-skills 604