The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. In the startup context.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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freshtrax

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Original Article Published in Japanese on Aug 03, 2023. Although the amount of investment in startups has begun to decrease in 2023 due to the declining macro environment, a large amount of funding was raised between 2021 and 2022. In this issue, we will take a look at startups in the climate-tech market from the United States.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2018

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. Founding a startup is a lot like this. I didn’t have a perfectly mapped out startup marketing strategy. When we started Intercom the latter was my job. There’s a great story in Dr. Seuss’ “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This article is about how we came to understand the shortcomings of our vision, and why we eventually decided to pivot. We’ll talk about how we handled it with all the stakeholders (investors and team) in the next article. We’ll talk about how to handle investors and your team through a pivot in the next article.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Here we provide a brief overview of the best app developers for startups for 2021. From day one, most startups are concerned with the question “How to find the best technology partner.” To make things easier for you, we have compiled a list of the best app development companies with immense expertise in working with startups.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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TurnKey Labs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

For startups, the act of hiring isn’t just a mundane administrative task; it’s a strategic maneuver that can chart the course of success or peril. This article shines a spotlight on the paramount significance of hiring in […]

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freshtrax

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Unicorn status is a goal for many companies around the world and in this article, we will share which Japanese companies have achieved this status. Please note that this list is based on estimated market capitalization, so it may change depending on when you read this article. Preferred Networks is a startup engaged in AI development.

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Centercode

JUNE 12, 2023

Our Director of Client Services and resident Beta Testing Guru, Mike Fine, was a recent guest on The Startup Slingshot, where he gave a video interview on beta testing recruitment, motivation, and more. We recommend checking it out.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This article lists these lessons. In the end, a pre-product-market fit startup’s only job is to find product-market fit (PMF), and therefore to explore different solutions as smartly and efficiently as possible. Should pre-PMF startups look like this in the end? About 80% of startups don’t find product-market fit.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2020

Most of us in the startup community have embraced the principles of Lean product development and MVPs. Despite this, most startups still flatline or fail after their MVP has been released. Startups are complex, so there’s many factors at play. This is precisely why growth curves for most startups are flat forever.

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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. Write down your product concept.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Since I want this article to be tactically useful for you, here are some snippets of good portfolios I’ve seen. I can usually immediately tell if they have an eye for B2C design that matches what I’m looking for. This is pretty intuitive, which is okay. Visually clean aesthetic. Easy to read.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Here’s the original article. and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? Here’s the list of the most common startup comparisons: “X for Y” comparisons are popular! When do they work?

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freshtrax

JULY 16, 2019

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Established year.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that got syndicated across publishers judged to be the best representative of Product Management thinking. Originally published on The Startup The case for rotating though products Empathy is the mother of all product roadmaps. -. A Guide to Narrowing your Focus.

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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. Write down your product concept.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

By choosing to work in product management, in either a blue-chip/corporate environment, a fast-moving tech house or a startup, do we brand ourselves with the type or size of company we work with? We need to put in some research and do the work (see my “how to” tips later in this article). Transferable Skills.

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Bain Public

JULY 29, 2021

Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to Bonjour Startup Montreal’s Startup Radar platform in defining their roadmap. Startup Radar is an ecosystem intelligence platform that powers the future growth of local startups.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 21, 2018

Brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups. Startups build a great brand by being successful, finding product market fit and scaling traction, etc. Early startups should opt out of all of this. Here’s an article from a few years back: After the TechCrunch bump, there’s life in the trough of sorrow.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

By choosing to work in product management, in either a blue-chip/corporate environment, a fast-moving tech house or a startup, do we brand ourselves with the type or size of company we work with? We need to put in some research and do the work (see my “how to” tips later in this article). Transferable Skills.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

Recently we decided to enter this market in our own company( JoySpot ), so I started studying this market heavily to learn how can a Startup penetrate it and be competitive versus titans like Tinder. It’s an incredible piece of work so I decided to make a resume in this article, adding up my own knowledge and points of view.

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Bain Public

JULY 20, 2021

L’Oréal Canada is Canada’s leading cosmetics company, seeking to transform the future of beauty alongside the tech and startup communities. About Bonjour Startup Montréal. Their Inno Startup open innovation platform has the primary objective of allowing networking of big organizations with startups to create win-win collaborations.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Regardless, the following articles are a must-read for anyone concerned with rolling out the best product in each iteration. Hackernoon published Wayne Chang’s seminal article on user experience.

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Nulab

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That’s why it’s of the utmost importance that your startup understands the fundamentals of digital marketing and traffic management. In this article, we’ll look at how you can drive traffic to your startup website within your rigid budget constraints.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Call to Action If you are a Product guy, I hope this article has inspired you to further your passion.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2021

In the battle for user attention, it is crucial to know what features and elements are relevant and up-to-date for startup mobile app development now. Big Sur OS with 3D graphics was released by Apple in November, 2020 Overall, the visual style of major companies could be a reference point for mobile apps for startups. Let’s reinforce!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

Why you should work at a StartUp: Clarifying Reasons The number of people looking for jobs at StartUps has been growing year after year in the last decade, a modest number of students are already planning to work in this type of company since the early years of the University.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 14, 2021

As a product leader working for startups and organizations that have sustainability practices at the core of their ambitious goals, you want to achieve business success in ways that honour your ethical values as well as respect climate fundamentals. Luckily, CleanTech startups are keen to meet the challenges of combating climate change.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 1, 2019

A Product Manager at a startup has to typically deal with 3 main phases – formation, validation and growth. In this enlightening article by Vivek Lakshman, VP Innovation @ Pramati Technologies, he writes about how a Product Manager can go about dealing with the challenge. And each of these phases has their distinct requirements.

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

In our conversation today, we focus on how founders build an environment that makes early employees want to stay, and importantly, how leaders can build the career skills and self-awareness they need to succeed at a startup long-term. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team.

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The Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s conversation, we dive deep into how startups can get international expansion right. To help mitigate the effects, Max shares how he’s implemented the concepts from the First Round Review article on “Giving away your Legos.” Read the article here: [link] You can follow Max on Twitter at @MaxRhodesOK.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Recognizing where your marketplace startup falls on the fungibility spectrum is crucial. I know all this can be overwhelming, and as a startup with limited resources you can’t have a team of data scientists optimizing your every match. This article was in part inspired by a talk by Uber product manager Tanvi Surti.

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