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How Product-Market Fit Really Works (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels When I first started my consulting business , I attended a sales coaching workshop.

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Small Cosmetic Brand Product Managers Are Changing The Business

The Accidental Product Manager

New beauty brands have shown up in the market being driven by millennial buyers who buy more cosmetics and skin care than any other demographic. These brands have seen huge growth over the past few years, grabbing market share from the big, established names. The Challenge Ahead For Cosmetic Product Managers.

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The Startup Brand Fallacy: Why brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups

Andrew Chen

Brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups. Startups build a great brand by being successful, finding product market fit and scaling traction, etc. and think that’s what caused their success: Great brand. But great brand is the lagging indicator of success. But it’s not a real lever.

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After building hundreds of startup brands, Arielle Jackson shares 6 early marketing missteps to avoid

The Review by First Round

For the past 7 years, she’s helped hundreds of companies build their positioning and brands from the ground up, both as our Marketing Expert in Residence here at First Round and in her own consulting work. She then headed up marketing & communications at Cover, an Android app that was acquired by Twitter.

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Five Essential Skills for Product Marketing Managers

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Product Marketing is a very new role in the industry - it sits at the intersection of product and marketing but the function influences several areas of the organization including design, sales, support, and engineering. Product Marketing is one of the most collaborative roles within an organization.

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How To Write A Product Marketing Manager (PMM) Cover Letter

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Also an ex-Googler, ex-consultant, Berkeley Haas MBA and Cornell alum. In preparation for applying to Product Marketing Manager roles, the standard application suite applies: a resume, cover letter, and maybe some additional materials like references or transcripts. The proposal resulted in approved funding by senior management.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

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 such a vague term for most people.