The EB1A green card requirements pose a high bar, and certainly commands some meritocracy to achieve. However, one of the most prevalent reasons why many immigrants do not consider this route is due to the tens of hundreds of myths around the EB1A green card path. I’m not a lawyer…

This quick-how-to-guide on brand building is generally applicable, although written in the context of product management & health tech and for early-career professionals. The question I get asked the most as a product management mentor and a career coach is how I went about building my personal brand. For the…

I’ve talked quite a bit about my career story and my journey into product management over the past couple years. However, I’ve never quite shared the why behind making the constant choice to stay in a challenging, slow but unceasingly inspiring field of health tech. …

An aspect of a Product Manager’s job that’s often not discussed enough is their responsibility to own and manage risk. There are several stages in the product lifecycle where PMs are expected to assess and call out risks — whether it be in regards to scope, timeline, ability to meet…

By Anu Ramakrishnan The Product School was kind enough to give me an opportunity to talk about Product Management in Health Tech. Here are the slides from the talk that cover my journey into Product Management, what “Health Tech” is all about and what it takes to be a Product Manager in a unique and challenging field like Health Technology/Digital Health. Should you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out!

When uncertainty is the norm…. If you’re a product manager, chances are you have been responsible for developing a product roadmap at some point in your career. In some organizations, particularly those that either (1) have growing or mature products or (1) those that are predominantly waterfall, product roadmaps are…

An early PM’s take on learning the weeds of Product Management in a highly engineering driven organization. By Anu Ramakrishnan It’s not uncommon for highly technical and specialized startups to evolve into becoming pseudo ‘product’ companies, without truly realizing what it means to be product driven. Product Management in itself…

By Anu Ramakrishnan, creator of finddesiwear.com — Unless you live under a rock, you probably know that Instagram is more than just a photo sharing application. It has emerged into an ecosystem of highly diverse user-generated content, spanning across several domains — food & travel, celebrity lifestyle, photography, beauty and fashion, to name a few. The mere…

By Anu Ramakrishnan Most mobile health (mHealth) apps are built around the core mission of improving their user’s health outcomes. Nutrition apps aspire to help users monitor their diet by giving them deep insights into every mouthful they eat, meditation apps aspire to help users combat anxiety and stress, and…