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User Personas, Buyer Personas, and the Missing Link in B2B

Product Management University

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. If you’re a B2B or B2B2C organization, there’s a persona that’s largely ignored but critical to understanding the customer organization from the top down as well as the bottom up. From the Bottom Up.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

Here are 5 newsletters we think you should read first: How today’s fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customers – Lenny shares takeaways from how successful companies like Figma, Slack , Stripe, and Airtable got their first ten customers. Lenny’s Newsletter homepage.

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Sunsetting a Product: What You Need to Know For Your B2B

Userpilot

Asses Product-Market Fit before sunsetting a product. Is it that there’s no product-marketing fit, or that you’ve spent too much time working on the wrong things? Product market fit survey built with Userpilot. This is where you work with your CTO and development team to understand the risks and advantages of making such a move.

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The essence of product management | Christian Idiodi (SVPG)

Lenny Rachitsky

Finding reference customers is the fastest path to achieving product-market fit. Find 6 to 8 B2B customers, or 15 to 25 B2C customers, and make something they are willing to recommend to other people. Also, consider their interest in engaging with you as a demand signal. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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When You Lead Daily Standups, What Are Your Best Techniques?

The Product Coalition

I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. Keren: Begin with the market voices. As Head of Product, I cover both B2C and B2B technologies.

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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. A Go-to-market strategy that meets the threshold where senior living homes would collaborate with a startup.

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8 Keys to Getting Started

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. Lean into your newness.