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Founders

8 fundraising tips I learned as a VC to help you raise your seed round.

Raising VC is one of the most confusing parts of being a founder. Before co-founding Jam, I was really lucky to spend a few years as a VC at Union Square Ventures and watch hundreds of founders pitch. Of course there's no one good way to raise, but

QA

How to hire your first QA person at your startup

Building a bug-free product is important at any company, but at a startup especially, it can make all the difference. While there’s an old startup trope that your product should be so needed that people will use it even when it’s buggy, that advice does not seem to

Building Jam

How to spin up recruiting at your early-stage startup, the Jam recruiting playbook

When we needed to recruit our first hires at Jam, after we exhausted asking everyone we knew for recommendations, we weren’t sure where to go from there. Do we just post on LinkedIn? Do we work with a recruiting agency? Is TopTal or Hired the way to go? We

Building Jam

8 tips for building a fast-paced remote startup culture

Building a remote startup isn't easy. How do you build a fast-paced, collaborative culture when everyone is remote? At Jam, we've learned a lot about how to build a remote startup over the past two years. Here are some of our favorite tips and tricks for

My favorite lesser known tools for startup founders

Hey startup founders! Here are my favorite lesser-known tools that I use and rely on as a founder. What are yours? Journey - for creating awesome presentations really fast Hireflow - for automating reaching out to potential candidates right from their Linkedin profiles Daily Toast - my favorite standup timer

Product Management

How to run a retrospective (remotely)

Retrospectives can be an incredibly important part of any product team's process. At Jam, we do 15-30 minute retrospectives after every major feature ships, and after every production incident. Retrospectives have had incredible impactful at Jam. Many of the ways we do things now are a direct result

Product Management

The best free bug reporting template for QA and PMs

Bug reporting is an essential part of any product development process but doing it effectively is often easier said than done. Finding and logging bugs improperly can bug your development team big time if you aren't careful. Bug reporting templates can go a long way towards saving time

QA

Smoke testing vs. sanity testing: the easiest guide to understanding the difference

Perhaps this is your first product, or perhaps it's your 100th. Either way, it's testing time, baby! But testing time is tricky if you aren't familiar with the nomenclature developers and QA testers use in product development. Two of those terms are "smoke

QA

The simplest guide to creating a traceability matrix for QA

How to create a simple traceability matrix and why you would want to do so in the first place.

QA

5 best Chrome extensions for QA

QA can be a tedious task, but fortunately, there are many tools that make it a lot easier. Chrome extensions for developers, in particular, go a long way to taking the frustration out of QA. Here are our top picks for the 5 best Chrome extensions for QA. 👇 #1 BugMagnet

Product Management

Your ultimate guide to user acceptance testing (UAT)

The phrase "test, test, test" is thrown around so much that it's become a bit of a cliche. But there is a rationale behind the phrase's popularity. Testing is vital for software development teams (even if it's a bit of a drain!

Project Management

Scrum explained: the easiest understandable guide to scrum

You can't go to a dev conference, read most companies' LinkedIn posts, or watch anything about project management on YouTube without hearing the word "scrum" thrown around. "Scrum" is without a doubt a buzzword, but it's more than just a future-oriented

Design

5 must-have Chrome extensions for designers

There are so many great Chrome extensions for designers now. The thing is, with so many extensions out there, how can you know which ones are “meh” and which ones are great? We tried them all so you don't have to! 😅 Here's our 5 must-have Chrome

QA

What is regression testing?

Here's everything you need to know about regression testing.

Project Management

Scrum vs. kanban: ultimate guide

As a developer, you know the importance of getting work done—not just on time, but efficiently too. However, it’s not always as simple as sitting down and getting through the project from A to Z. With the rise of Agile methodology, Scrum and Kanban have been two of

Project Management

Choosing an issue tracker: Jira vs. Asana

Jira and Asana are company names that you’ve probably heard more than once, especially if you work in project management or as part of a marketing team. Both are great project management software options with different reasons to want to use them. If you’re curious about which one

Project Management

How to set up templates in Jira? — the ultimate easy guide

When it comes to project management software, Jira is widely considered one of the best tools around. It’s endorsed by a whopping 65,000 organizations worldwide, including the big-shots like Cisco, Spotify, Square, eBay, and Airbnb. Although Jira is well-known for its ability in issue tracking, people still find

Product Management

How to run a bug bash

No matter how much planning, documentation, and overtime you do, no product is ever perfect straight away. In the pursuit of perfection, teams hunt for any errors that might interrupt the user experience — broken links, functions that don't do what they are meant to, buttons that lead people

QA

How to write test cases

After months of late nights, endless cups of coffee, and countless meetings, your product is (finally! 😅) nearly ready for release. The next item on your do-to list is product testing. That's where test cases come in, they are your checklist for thorough testing. Though test cases aren'

Product Updates

Launching today! Send screenshots to Slack, crazy fast 👇

This just landed – next time you spot a bug: 1. Click Jam 2. Screenshot/Record 3. Send it to any channel or DM – all without leaving the tab you’re on! 🥳 This is perfect for those times when you’re doing a bug bash in Slack. Jam auto-includes device info,

Product Updates

Launching today! Be 20x faster at reporting bugs in Jira. 👇

It’s fast for you, and perfect for your engineers - so you can all enjoy a more productive day. 🎉

Introducing Jam Edit: edit your website, right from the page.

Today we’re announcing Jam Edit [https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jam-edit]. It’s the next step towards our mission to help designers and engineers work better together. Jam Edit lets designers preview and suggest design changes to engineers, directly from the website. Jam Edit - Edit your website, right

Launching today! Edit your website, right from the page. 👇

Launching Jam Edit today 🚀 Today we’re launching Jam Edit on ProductHunt. It lets you edit your website, right from the page, and suggest the exact changes to engineers. If you have 30 seconds, we would love your help with an upvote! Give a ❤️ on ProductHunt! Everything you need to

Launching today! Leave video comments right from your website. 👇

You can now give developers website feedback so much faster! Quickly record and share your feedback with video comments right from your website 🥳 This is one more way Jam helps you give great design feedback to engineers, without the pain and frustration of spending hours on screenshots. It’s super

Product Updates

Launching today! A chrome extension to give feedback right on your site 👇

Launching a new browser extension. Think sticky notes for the web: you can leave feedback directly on any web page.