Product Management can help founders chart a path that is realistic, purposeful and supportive of their ultimate mission and vision.Founders often don’t have much prior success, limiting their lessons learned.Start-ups need to get inside the way their users operate and what they’re trying to accomplish.Founders need to evaluate the greater impact of suppliers, workflows, and complementary technologies.Real user insights support a start-up toward meaningful milestones in a successful product journey.Funding is a big rock that most founders and start-up teams stumble over sooner or later.Product Managers are built precisely for the role of encouraging a start-up and acting as a product shepherd.It’s about jobs-to-be-done.Thinking like a PdM encourages founders to enlarge their point of view through engagement and curiosity about people.Every product will have both users and buyers who often have vastly different wants, needs, and expectations.