The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Cosmetic product managers are going after millennials Image Credit: Albert Lugosi. I mean, customers try products, select the ones that they like, and that’s the end of the story, right? At stake is a share of the global cosmetics-products market, which is expected to reach US$805.61 billion in 2017.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash As a proud member of the startup nation, startups are all around me. Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. But in product management that is never true. Just having the tool in front of you won’t do that.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits. Many startups fall into this category. Many blue-ocean startups start here.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

You are going to invest a ton of money in developing the right product for the market (hence the importance of product-market fit ), but once you have it, and you know how to sell it, you can scale exponentially. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups. If you are only beginning, it’s clear why.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2024

This is especially true for startups and new products. Focus and being able to find a niche can be a huge unlock for products. The ABC News App today (2023) This resulted in not only a far better experience but also increased adoption by 6% that year (of memory) and engagement. Niche Canvas. Download the canvas here.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. Will 2024 be better or worse than 2023? You need to understand the financials of your company very clearly (product leaders — this is your responsibility even if you are not founders!)

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. Guess what? It doesn’t work, even with good people. Talk to us.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

It’s Not About the Plumbing When we work with startups it’s usually a long-term relationship. We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. But hiring leaders is hard.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Don’t miss it!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

A generic segmentation like “startups of 50–100 people” is not good enough for two reasons. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on July 27, 2023.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Which product management books do you have on your shelf (or Kindle)? Our guide introduces 23 must-reads, from timeless classics to hot-off-the-press publications that are creating waves in the market. Escaping the Build Trap promotes outcome-driven product management to deliver real value to customers.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. If a product person isn’t equipped with the ability to sense what might be valuable to others, product management might not be the best career choice in the first place. And something called JQL.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I want to accelerate my PM career Fundamentals 14 habits of highly effective product managers How to know if you’re doing a good job as a product manager What is product management How to get into product management (and thrive) Should I become a product manager?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. Big company: Very difficult to make the switch at IBM because of how established they are and people still thought it was the old product. Need to capitalize on this 5x growth opportunity 30 minute product manager and engineer meeting: product managers began to ask engineers to de-risk things.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 7, 2023

On an off, I’ve been one of those contributors as well because PDMA has been vital in my career development and I want to help other product managers. I’m currently serving PDMA by being an author on the 3rd edition of their body of knowledge for product innovation, which Wiley is publishing in early 2024.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

I took a class on educational product development and I really loved it, so I started asking, “What’s the job that would allow me to do this full time?” As I started doing research and talking to people, being in product management for educational products came to the top of that list.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2023

Saying ‘no’ is an important skill for product managers. Today I want to talk about a specific type of saying ‘no’, one that not many product managers even realize is an option: saying ‘no’ to customer requests. You, the product manager, have a say. Does It Represent the Market?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

the CPO of a well-known startup, described the following case to me: she gave the team high-level instructions on a certain feature and she didn’t care how they would take it from there. When it comes to taking risks, you must understand the natural tendency of each and every one of your product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation. In one such startup, that asked to start in the middle, we ended up spending a full hour discussing the first sentence. It read “we focus on the SaaS market”.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

Step 1: Identify internal stakeholders for product analysis To start with, identify all the stakeholders inside your company that use product data to guide their work. Step 3: Choose important product analytics metrics to track Once you have set the goals, you need to choose the right metrics to measure your progress toward them.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

How to Conduct a Product Health Check Why gathering health indicators helps you make better product decisions I was chatting to a friend the other day who had just taken on a senior product director level role at a venture backed startup. These include: Very Disappointed score, LTV, NPS, CAC.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

As a result, you’ll likely end up overshooting your budget, which makes Heap unsuitable for small teams and early-stage startups. You can choose from the following plans: Free – Ideal for teams looking to establish product-market fit. Starter – Suitable for startups looking to scale their business.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

This functionality will be available in Q4 of 2023. Userpilot’s cohort analysis User retention is critical for the success of digital products, it’s linked to the product’s ability to consistently deliver value to the users and is a key measure of business health. What do users say about Userpilot?

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

Here’s an overview of the pricing plans and features of each plan: Starter plan : This plan features essentials to find product-market fit. This functionality will be available in Q4 of 2023. It is also essential in the process of achieving a product-market fit and retaining constant growth.

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Userpilot

MARCH 1, 2023

The most important and popular ones for collecting customer feedback include the Net Promoter Score, Customer satisfaction score, Customer effort score, product-market fit survey, etc You should also get customization capabilities so that the surveys you create match your interface and don’t look odd. – Parita P.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The most important and popular ones for collecting customer feedback include the Net Promoter Score, Customer satisfaction score, Customer effort score, product-market fit survey, etc. Not appropriate for small startups on a shoestring budget (<$100)- Userpilot is a powerful, mid-market to the enterprise-level tool.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No-code growth is a method of achieving product-led growth (using your own product as a lever and revenue growth channel) without coding, using no-code tools. By giving your product managers and marketers no-code tools, you can generate more no-code growth. That’s a lot of money for startups and SMEs.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The most important and popular ones for collecting customer feedback include the Net Promoter Score, Customer satisfaction score, Customer effort score, product-market fit survey, etc You should also get customization capabilities so that the surveys you create match your interface and don’t look odd. – Parita P.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No-code growth is a method of achieving product-led growth (using your own product as a lever and revenue growth channel) without coding, using no-code tools. By giving your product managers and marketers no-code tools, you can generate more no-code growth. – Parita P. What users say about Userpilot?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The most important and popular ones for collecting customer feedback include the Net Promoter Score, Customer satisfaction score, Customer effort score, product-market fit survey, etc You should also get customization capabilities so that the surveys you create match your UI and don’t look odd. No watermarks are also preferable.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Interestingly – they seem completely different from the product trends we’ve identified for 2021 – including Product Led Growth , the rise of a Growth Product Management Role, chatbots, or gamification. Will AI transform Product Management in 2022 by allowing PMs to make a better use of user behavior data ?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

No-code growth is a method of achieving product-led growth (using your own product as a lever and revenue growth channel) without coding, using no-code tools. By giving your product managers and marketers no-code tools, you can generate more no-code growth. – Parita P. What users say about Userpilot?

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