Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Be sure to get specific.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? I was now going to build things that mattered to my customers. Frankly, this came at the perfect time for me. What a novel idea!

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Network economies.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

Most commonly – employers look for experience when hiring PMs. One of Product Manager’s basic responsibilities (or Product Owner’s – if your work in a larger organisation ) is translating the market requirements into a product roadmap – and creating stories, epics and tasks for the development team.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. One of many tweets from users about the thank-you cards. Enable people to make a difference.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2016

Use Google’s “design sprints” in your product management work. Need to validate product-market fit assumptions and prototypes in just a few days? Learn how to put it into action from this detailed article… https://community.uservoice.com/blog/design-sprints-for-enterprise-product-management/. Read more at [link].

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If you want to give your customers what they want, you’ll need to know how to ask them. If you’re starting a business or working on a new product, there are efficient ways to save yourself from unexpected things happening?—?like like your product failing and you losing money. like your product failing and you losing money.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 17, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . New book for learning how to apply Lean Startup practices – Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya. How to quickly figure out if product management is right for you. What went wrong?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Ivy is currently the Vice President of Design for the Hardware Product Area at Google, which was officially formed in 2016. In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. Janice Fraser, Chief Product Officer at Bionic.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Jake Knapp is the New York Times best-selling author of Sprint. He spent 10 years at Google, where he created the Design Sprint process, and he has worked with over 100 startups including Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Uber. His writing on startups and productivity has appeared in Fast Company, TechCrunch, Slate, and LifeHacker.

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Pragmatic Marketing

APRIL 3, 2018

A cloud security vendor was losing customers, and wasn’t sure why. They came to us and requested a series of buyer interviews to try to figure out what was driving their high rate of customer churn. When we started talking to their customers, we realized that the signs of their unhappiness had been loud and clear for a while.

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Product Club

MAY 20, 2016

Every day the Product Manager Club brings you the best product management, product marketing and product design reads from across the web. I can’t write words that sum up how well Dan Schmidt writes words about product, which is hard to define with words. We hope you enjoy!

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

I make it 5 or 6 times, just to be sure.” – Random quote I found on the Internet If that doesn’t describe the CEO experience, I don’t know what does. Maybe they just need more time. And over time, I got better at parting ways quickly when we weren’t aligned. To run a startup, you have to make bets.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Dave Wascha, CPO Photobox.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

After her work on the Creative Cloud, Lea went on to manage the consumer business at Adobe where she had responsibility for all marketing, product, and engineering. After Adobe, Lea led product at InVision, a startup focused on design collaboration where she built and designed best practices for the product team.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

So I want to share my take when to suggest for monolithic and when to suggest for microservices from several aspects: Product Phases When our product are still on proof of concept / MVP phase, I strongly suggest to use monolithic architecture , since there is no guarantee that the product would be used often.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. Apart from working with established brands and startups, we assess the expertise of various companies and create our independent rating list of trustworthy design companies. What can website design studios in Berlin do for you?

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. This is usually a busy time of year with ProductCamps, conferences, and other events, and this year is no different. 2016 Spring Portfolio Marketing and Product Management Strategies Best Practices. The events season is upon us! ProductCamp St. Louis, which is now in its 5th year.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. This is usually a busy time of year with ProductCamps, conferences, and other events, and this year is no different. 2016 Spring Portfolio Marketing and Product Management Strategies Best Practices. The events season is upon us! ProductCamp St. Louis, which is now in its 5th year.

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

But came back for the first time in 30 years to speak at SydStart 2015? Sean Ellis is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and startup advisor. Sean also popularized the term product/market fit and coined the term growth hacking. The days of traditional interruption marketing are dead. How do you plan for growth?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

In this article, you’ll learn how to: Understand the role of product marketing. Start creating your product marketing plan. Create alignment between product and marketing. Walk into any product-first company and you’ll notice the common misconception that “marketing” is a dirty word.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

She is currently the co-founder of Custom Reality Services , a virtual reality (VR) production company whose first two projects, Across the Line (2016) and Ashe ’68 (2019), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. So, I had to wait a long time at that party for everybody to show up.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

She is currently the co-founder of Custom Reality Services , a virtual reality (VR) production company whose first two projects, Across the Line (2016) and Ashe ’68 (2019), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. So, I had to wait a long time at that party for everybody to show up.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

She is currently the co-founder of Custom Reality Services , a virtual reality (VR) production company whose first two projects, Across the Line (2016) and Ashe ’68 (2019), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. So, I had to wait a long time at that party for everybody to show up.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

She is currently the co-founder of Custom Reality Services , a virtual reality (VR) production company whose first two projects, Across the Line (2016) and Ashe ’68 (2019), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. So, I had to wait a long time at that party for everybody to show up.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Gousto’s approach to solving customer problems to create massive business value has radically changed in the last two years. We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Viacom18 proactively forayed into the OTT business in late 2015 and went live with Voot—our mobile-first video-on-demand platform—in mid-2016. We also have a kid’s product, with ebooks, video games, audio stories, videos, movies, etc. Spending time judiciously is important. They say the day never ends in a media company.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. What’s not to like?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. Tim joined me for a chat that ranged from how to balance human-computer interaction to how to define productivity in a knowledge-based economy. Short on time? Fix it he did.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Freemium models lead to higher churn rates and lower recurring revenue but can be an effective way to maximize rapid adoption — especially for expensive or complex products. Tiered pricing creates a natural upgrade path for customers which increases the probability of expansion revenue. Easier marketing. Userpilot pricing.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This post is an overview of the first two years (2014 - 2016) of the product where I was involved. The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. Starting with product puts the cart before the horse.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Kinga Odziemek – CEO of Brainy Bees , content marketing, social media, PR and link building agency for SaaS, tech and B2B companies. Women in Product. According to Mind the Product , as of 2016 (we didn’t find newer data), only 35% of all Product Managers were female. What is your background?

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills. Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future.

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