To those of you doing product at early stage startups. How are you finding it?

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I’ll start - exhausting. I find that I’m having to do everything including items of work that members of my wider team should be responsible for

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Only product person in a small start-up of 8. I have to pick up a lot of the business ops stuff - models, investor decks etc. It gives me a great broad picture view but means only 70% of my time is actually product management

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I've managed to get offers by leveraging the breadth of my experience. However, other startups rejected me because my product knowledge was too informal and they wanted a more traditional background.

It's work. And there's always more of it. I have to hold firm boundaries around my time and capacity, because it's easy for everyone to ask too much of each other. I kind of enjoy the thrill of it, though.

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I’m a B2B product manager at a multi billion privately held company. I had to make my own PM role. Everything folks shared above feels like my life.

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Does anyone have any advice on how to best deal with your situation?

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