The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your bi-weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Not going to lie, PMs do work alone on many occasions, from figuring out the roadmap to dealing with customers. Their roadmap is fuelled by 3 sources: a.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. As if that is the problem and solution to most startup problems.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” — Matias Woloski , co-founder and CTO of Auth0 “The trial is about their work. ” Throughout the year, the Gumroad team marks certain tasks on their roadmap as “good for trialers” and then they assign these tasks to interview candidates. So we just pay them to do it!

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I remember when a CTO asked me for a more detailed, solution-oriented roadmap. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? The “solid roadmap”. The startup that’s “killing it” (but not). Leaders/managers frequently make the mistake of glossing over uncertainty because they are concerned that people will be demotivated.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In my prior article I discussed my favorite alternative to conventional product roadmaps. In most startups, the product person is the CEO (or at least one of the co-founders). Q: What about outcome-based roadmaps? In truth, it’s not hard to map 1:1 a set of OKR’s to an outcome-based roadmap.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Todd has been tinkering and doodling since he was four years old.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. On the flip side, that’s also just a very crappy user experience.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. On the flip side, that’s also just a very crappy user experience.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. For me, I’ve been a part of startups using only some variant of scrum. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. Some people want to be a product manager because they want to "own the roadmap," but I think it's a lot less glamorous than that. Tell us about how you broke into product management.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. This isn’t to suggest a product development process that’s basically a free-for-all, where there are no deadlines, roadmaps, or plans of what will be built.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

link] As a product manager, you often find yourself switching between contexts as well, often between short-term project management and long term roadmap and product planning. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. At mid to later stage, this is more likely a Senior Engineer.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. They must develop their program's roadmaps and strategies while also leading all the teams that ultimately execute them. As such, much of their day-to-day workflow is determined by the strategies and roadmaps that are defined by their TPM.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

When the biggest problem Product Managers face is setting roadmap priorities based on market feedback, it’s symptomatic of the underlying practices and tools. The Lean Startup movement put particular emphasis on throwing out hypothesis to test with data. So more startups are ramping up the sales learning curve.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. From there, Chris became involved in startups. ”I was their first paying customer.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It means thinking about roadmapping , team structure, how you plan, all sorts of things in product that have a big impact on how the team interacts with measurement and analytics.” I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product. I enjoy product.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

These are the business strategy , which is also referred to as corporate strategy , the product portfolio strategy , the technology strategy, and the product strategy , as well as the product roadmap , the technology roadmap, and the product backlog.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. Being a good CEO is less about telling people what to do and more about giving them what they need. But what does a CEO need? In reviewing a feature.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. I created our first product roadmap and this continued to provide a sense of purpose. The Roadmap. The Owned and Organic Roadmap. Keeping it Coherent.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. In a vacuum, your resume or LinkedIn profile might leave people with more questions than answers: Why did you leave Microsoft for some startup that failed?

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business. Read on to find out who is returning and to watch their previous knockout talks. 1 // Mikey Trafton.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. Dharmesh Shah , CTO of HubSpot, encourages startup SaaS businesses to pay attention to what their customers are doing and cater to what can make them successful. Social JTBD.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup. Head of Product or Product Director. Product Manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap. Rather than complaining to my manager, I decided I would step up and take responsibility for figuring out the product roadmap. ” But I work in startups. Nick: Totally.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

9 Dear Product Roadmap, I’m Breaking Up with You. He discusses the top roadmap challenges according to product managers and then helps you understand what you can do to overcome them. #10 He also was the CEO of his own Android startup, Cover which has now been acquired by Twitter. Author: Heath Umbach. 10 The MVP is dead.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

We’d all transitioned to working from home instead of being in the office and figuring that out. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right? Ellen: Then we also started introducing outcomes to our priority roadmap. Teresa: Was that the way it was? Where did it go from there?

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