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

Product Management University

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. Department personas are the VPs and directors that bridge the gap between user and buyer personas in the B2B space. What is a B2B Buyer Persona?

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

Userpilot

He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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

Userpilot

This is where you work with your CTO and development team to understand the risks and advantages of making such a move. Whether you choose to sunset a product and retire it indefinitely, or whether you choose to go via the enhancement route, make sure you have a communication strategy for both internal and external users.

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Who is “the Customer?” by Luke Taylor

Mind the Product

The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling. Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base. B2B Metrics now are More Like B2C Metrics. Without a Product Strategy, you Won’t Know When to Walk Away.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world.

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

The Product Coalition

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different.

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

The Product Coalition

We asked four product leaders: “Outside of the popular tips and techniques experts recommend — what are your best strategies for how you lead daily standups?” 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.