Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. It’s important for an early-stage startup with limited resources.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

It’s fascinating to me to be in a startup working with some of the largest companies in the world. From there, I went on to become a technical product manager at a machine learning (ML) startup, Context Relevant, responsible for the ML platform. My job there was a hybrid of data science and technical product management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

It definitely did. Making better, more informed decisions As Product Managers and as startup founders, we continuously evaluate value vs. effort, even when we don’t realize it. Better quality. 99 languages. Open-source. Is it time to re-evaluate? They were even willing to pay extra to get it.

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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. While these are definitely needed for the teams to know what to do, they are bad as OKRs, in the sense that they are not accounting for anything other than delivering software.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2023

Consider, for example, the typical venture capital funded startup. The shareholders of this startup are making investments now that will likely lead to near term losses but that later will hopefully lead to significant gains in the value of their equity. It may also get referred to as the company’s shares, enterprise value or value.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 13, 2022

VC, startups, enterprises — Mike is a true industry veteran with a holistic understanding of today’s tech ecosystem. The role of CISO is definitely evolving. In the past five years, several startups have focused on speed and creating a “magic elixir dashboard” that will solve all their problems.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). What is technical debt?

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). What is Technical Debt?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

FullStory is used by enterprises and large organizations but the platform has a few shortcomings: Mobile integrations. FullStory.com seems to be more geared towards enterprise and larger organizations. You might also be interested in 5 Firebase alternatives and competitors. Why is it worth considering FullStory alternatives?

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Userpilot

MAY 14, 2023

Userpilot pricing Userpilot offers 3 pricing plans: Traction, Growth, and Enterprise. Mixpanel pricing Mixpanel offers three pricing plans : Starter, free Growth, from $20/month Enterprise, from $833/month The free Starter plan offers access to all reporting features. The latter is definitely its biggest strength.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Whether your company is a startup or a multinational enterprise, understanding the importance of continuous improvement is essential. Enterprises use continuous improvement in software development or data automation solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. Going upmarket usually involves a rebranding effort to appear more enterprise-ready. As I said, they’ve been quite busy. If you enjoy our discussion, check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The conference will cover a wide range of topics, including chatbots, machine learning, open source AI libraries, AI for the enterprise, and deep AI / neural networks. This includes everything from the definition of the problem, the coverage and quality of the data set and its analysis, to the presentation of results and the follow-up.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

If there’s anything we’ve learned when it comes to working in hypergrowth startups is that you’re not really supposed to have it all figured out on the first try. And you definitely felt that. We paused all of our enterprise field sales, but in our HQ, we decided to put the foot down and really go for it. And I got it.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). What is technical debt?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also. This approach is usually good for any feature even in big enterprises.

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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. These definitions help not only scale your business, but also scale your career in a tactful and graceful way. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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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!” My definition of a Minimum Viable Product is the smallest amount of effort you can do to learn.

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Product Warrior

JANUARY 26, 2023

One common startup answer is “to be the CEO of the product”, larger enterprises seem to prefer “the glue between all the business functions that deliver a product the users want”, while others define it as “the person accountable for what the product does”. What is the product manager role?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2021

At its core, WalkMe is an enterprise solution for employee onboarding. Its typical customers are also large, enterprise-level companies with user onboarding needs. The most significant point to consider here is that both WalkMe and Whatfix are enterprise solutions designed for big companies with large user bases. What is WalkMe?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). What is Technical Debt?

Product Management 78

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). What is technical debt?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Using the rigour of a value proposition canvas to describe your organisation can help you to be honest with yourself: As a Tech Startup. As a Digital Team in a Large Enterprise. I’ve lifted an idea straight from the Lean Enterprise book and used it over the last 12 months. Definition of Done. You’re high on life.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2022

Definitely. And even though Bananatag was an enterprise company, we still saw some of the same benefits there. When I tell people that, they’re pretty shocked because Hootsuite doesn’t come off as the most sales-led, enterprise-focused company, but that was the reality. But we’re doing all of that now.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I structured the book in three sections, Founder Flow, Startup Flow, and Product Flow. Lisa needs to get in the mental and emotional state not only to create her product as a solution to her customer’s problem, but also to solve the problems of getting her enterprise up and running. [9:39]

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2019

Vplayed Vplayed is an enterprise-grade media streaming player that provides both audio and video streaming options. Features: Plugins Support Analytics Playlist Support Branding Potential Easy Setup and Highly Customizable Contus Vplay Contus Vplay is a top-of-the-line HTML5 video player for enterprises and startups.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 2, 2022

Steve orchestrates and executes customer engagements in the federal space, overseeing the development of products to address challenges in government enterprise, national security, and other federal areas of focus. I’ve seen four types of CTO roles: The startup CTO is the Jack of all trades.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 30, 2020

Currently based in Amsterdam John-Simon spends the majority of his time with various stage startups throughout AsiaPac, consulting as an expert-in-residence, supporting product strategy and execution. In the AsiaPac region, it’s best-known for being the largest investor in Chinese giant Tencent. ” In-House Versus Agency. A Helping Hand.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. As for our pricing positioning, Userpilot maintains a no-discounts policy and offers only annual pricing for Growth & Enterprise plans.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 7, 2021

We’ve got a few startups in our building, which is cool. I had been following a few startup companies in Sydney, and Intercom reached out to me, which was one of the ones I was following. But it was certainly the case for me when I joined, and it’s definitely continued even when we’ve set up the office.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

I did that throughout college and ended up joining a startup, as you do. I became employee number 13 at an early-stage startup and realized as a salesperson I really needed marketing and we didn’t have marketing. It was a really fun run, and I got the itch for real startup and digital marketing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2019

It turns our that there is a new way to get around and it’s changing the rental car product development definition and causing headaches for established rental car company product managers. As you can well imagine this is not going over well with the product managers at Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Hertz. The Arrival Of The Upstarts.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

I think this issue is less pervasive at startups, but it’s still a temptation, especially for managers of product people. You serve your business by making them more revenue/enterprise value. A bad CEO expects others to get their hands dirty. The list goes on.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

If we’re being asked about how we’re using an enterprise software, for instance, it might be helpful to be sensitive to the fact that the behaviors we’re asking about are closely intertwined with how well the user does their work. User interviews can sometimes be a weird experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook. When Workplace became a real thing at Facebook, I was in London.

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