The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Case: “ Suppose you have been hired as a PM for a tech startup that is trying to launch smartwatches in India in a non-premium segment. Interviewer: Sure! Interviewer: Okay! What is it?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, among our customers were B2C companies, small businesses, and large enterprises along with customers in places and industries well beyond Silicon Valley. You can’t find email lists using Job-to-be-Done, but you can find ones for B2C subscription businesses that have a high volume of website traffic.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Understanding how B2B product management is a different ball game altogether Product folks who have worked on the early stage enterprise products may relate with the title. Building an enterprise product is a whole lot different from building a consumer product. This is because, for most for B2C products, the user is also the customer.

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Userpilot

APRIL 18, 2024

This type of customer segmentation is commonly used by B2C businesses looking to implement targeted marketing campaigns and tailor their product offerings to different age groups, genders, and so on. For instance, a B2C platform like TikTok, with a predominantly Gen Z user base, will create ad marketing campaigns targeting 15 to 25-year-olds.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Since then, she’s helped grow the Udemy’s B2B SaaS arm to more than 5,000 enterprise customers, which include the likes of Pinterest, Adidas, and General Mills. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Listen to the full episode or check out Yvonne’s key takeaways below.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

There’s a clear distinction between technical and business-oriented roles, as well as between those focused on B2C and B2B markets. The ideal customer profile is big enterprise deals. For example. Limited free offerings. Negotiable or custom pricing. Customers expect the product to be customised to their needs.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

At startups or growth stage companies, a “Product Manager” is responsible for identifying what needs to be built and then executing on building the product. Identifying user needs, or customer needs in the B2C environment, is currently a weakness of mine and a skill that is a hallmark of both B2B and B2C product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

When a startup grows, there comes a time when they decide to work with OKRs (or any other goal-setting methodology) across the board for the first time. In B2C companies, this often translates into initiatives with a very rough guesstimation of how much ARR will each initiative bring.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

TL;DR: we recently released an all-new Free Plan with up to 100K Monthly Tracked Users (MTUs), made changes to our pricing curve, and launched a Startup Program to give early-stage companies more runway for growth. No more data history limits on all new Free, Growth, and Enterprise Plans. First and foremost, startups are in our DNA.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The EDC is an autonomous body that promotes the cultivation of startups and entrepreneurial ideas. During my time in the EDC, I participated in startup brainstorming sessions. We typically see this model with B2C purchases in which a customer can find and buy a product via a website, like Netflix or Amazon.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

For burgeoning startups, roles may blend; the head growth marketer could double as the data analyst. Our lens will focus on the SaaS growth marketer’s role, which mirrors many aspects found in the B2C sphere. The structure of a growth marketing team In the realm of growth marketing, one size doesn’t fit all.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. But there’s so much guidance out there that it can be hard to weed through all the noise and determine what’s going to be the best plan of action for your startup. None of them made or broke the blog. This is liberating.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Our customers span across thousands of organizations ranging from smaller, growth-stage startups to Fortune 500 global enterprises. At ProductPlan, we have the tremendous privilege of working with and listening to tens of thousands of product leaders.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others. Whether your product is B2B or B2C, it’s people who buy it, and these people need to go through a certain journey to be able to say yes (and get others to agree if you are B2B).

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Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

In this episode get actionable advice on how 5 product leaders approach creating and sharing the product roadmap with their organizations in B2B, B2C, startup, growth and mature companies. Are you struggling with how to create and communicate your product roadmap? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.

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Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

In this episode get actionable advice on how 5 product leaders approach creating and sharing the product roadmap with their organizations in B2B, B2C, startup, growth and mature companies. Margaret Jastrebski, former SVP Enterprise Product, ShopRunner and current Product & Strategy Advisor. Feedback is a gift!

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Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

In this episode get actionable advice on how 5 product leaders approach creating and sharing the product roadmap with their organizations in B2B, B2C, startup, growth and mature companies. Margaret Jastrebski, former SVP Enterprise Product, ShopRunner and current Product & Strategy Advisor. Feedback is a gift!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

If you ever worked in a B2B startup, you know that you are chasing opportunities. On a B2B startup, it can look something like this: people are willing to talk to you, and you get a few POCs. for example, SMB vs. enterprise. To understand why, we need to switch to another water-related metaphor: the clogged pipe.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

It was a great experience working in an MNC that functions with the startup mindset. After learning a whole lot about how to do software requirements management, project management, enterprise architecture, architecting software solutions, information security policies.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 25, 2019

It’s a tech-enabled law firm serving startups — learn more here. Justin ended up picking a new startup because it’s the #1 vehicle for personal growth. Tradeoffs between B2B versus B2C companies. And also: “It takes a lot of people with nothing to lose to discover [hit startups].”. congrats Justin!).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

They offer personalized payment plans for enterprises but their business plans start from $995 per month. An enterprise plan for businesses that need priority support is also available for $749 a month. Hotjar is ideal for B2B and B2C product and customer experience teams, web/UX designers, and digital marketers. Capterra: 4.4/5

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The Product Coalition

JULY 3, 2018

Let’s say the candidate did well at B2B companies, but maybe not so well in B2C companies’ interviews. Could this mean that the candidate is a better match for enterprise product management? B) What if we could also make the candidate him/herself a consumer of this information?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn. She works to bring ideas to life by building innovative products in the B2B2C and B2C world that positively influence people’s behavior on a societal scale.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

This conference is dedicated to helping SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs of enterprise software companies ramp up their subscription revenue. From startups to enterprise-class outfits, they dedicate the conference to what it takes to lead product management and strategy for the entire organization. SaaStr Annual.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

… And what that means for startups and innovators today [We were] just sentient puppets on God’s stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road … so very brief and sore was life with us. Startups, though, are vaporous?—?they Lawrence (i.e.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

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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. Someone picked up The Lean Startup , had their mind blown, and said “We should do that here!” In the beginning, we talked about this concept as something to validate startup ideas.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. View the live stream…. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. I'll walk through some examples: Most B2C companies driven by an ads model — companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Yelp — live on the left hand end of the spectrum. Companies like Palantir and Veeva exist on the very far end.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Whether you are a large enterprise with vast resources or a startup with a limited budget, it’s common to find that you have product development problems that are either not identified or not properly addressed. The ones mentioned here are, from our experience, the most effective. Why is a Product Development Health Check Necessary?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2018

As the Head of Growth Marketing at Clearbit , and previously a co-founder and CEO of more than a few startups (including WorkMob, ApiXchange, and GoFlow), Matt Sornson knows these pitfalls intimately and how to avoid them. From there, I got involved in startups. I started a few companies, one of which we sold.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Motto: We help brands & enterprises prepare for a future dominated by post-PC technologies Customer quotes: “Everything they’ve delivered so far has been very polished. Motto: We’re a product agency that helps Fortune 500 companies and next generation startups build the future of digital. They’ve been using their heads.”? —?CEO

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

Userpilot offers two subscription plans to choose from Growth (starts from $249/mo) and Enterprise (starts from $749/mo). Inline Manual offers two subscription plans: Standard Pro and Enterprise. It is a fairly complex product and is more geared towards enterprises looking for a complete onboarding package. Inline Manual.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 8, 2019

Some of the topics they tackled in 2018 included AI and machine learning, SaaS and enterprise apps, Internet of Things, and cloud-native solutions. Whether you’re in B2B or B2C, a startup or a Fortune 500 company, you’ll find relevant content at Dreamforce. VMworld US | August 25-29, San Francisco, CA. Event Website.

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