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Handling Early Adopter Customers - follow up story
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Survivlng product challenges with early adopter customers

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Amy Mitchell
Jun 21, 2024
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What happened after writing a recent Product Management IRL article? These insights are for premium subscribers to Product Management IRL.

This week’s backstory is about a recent article on the dramas product managers face with early adopter customers:

Weathering Early Adopter Customers

Weathering Early Adopter Customers

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April 10, 2024
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What Prompted this Article?

I have handled 3 products with early-adopter customers and faced dramatic obstacles each time. My current product is one of these. I noticed patterns of challenges to my product management skills.

I wanted to help product managers in similar situations by writing this article.

The patterns of attacks on product managers handling early adopters are:

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