Andrew Chen

JUNE 4, 2018

Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. It’s much harder to fix the underlying issues – creating real moats, product differentiation, doing deeper adtech integrations.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, if you’re a budding student, someone at a startup, agency, consultancy, or simply someone who is not as confident in their career record, your portfolio becomes your beacon. For Senior, Lead, and Staff Levels: Depth, leadership, and innovation are your tickets. The differentiator? Think of an actual movie.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

While the use of the framework is evident at the execution stage, it is equally applicable during business prioritization to identify product-market fit, competitive differentiation, and strategic alignment. As a Product Strategist or a Manager, it is insufficient to only think about how differentiated your product is. Ecosystems? —?As

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. One more inspiring example of purpose in product In the dynamic world of tech startups, Tiny Speck, the company behind a game called Glitch, found themselves struggling with their product’s lackluster performance.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This refers to the fear many large established companies are feeling as more and more new players and startups enter the markets to disrupt them. One of the ways in which these new players are differentiating themselves from others in the market is through great product people and effective product management. Becoming a CPO.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms. Today, product might seem like a new field because of the growth of technology startups and the prevalence of lean and agile frameworks, but product roles have been around for a few decades. Build something.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team. Within several months, I noticed they had the same problem I had in my startup but at a significantly greater scale and cost.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

Communication, Melissa says, will be the make or break differential when it comes to making it into the C-Suite. Start today by asking yourself how your product relates to revenue or cost. Then challenge yourself by asking how you can build on that story. Communication.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities. You categorize and prioritize to develop products with maximum differentiation and value, and you align the group around the important requirements. Eric Reis’ Lean Startup. The Pipeline allows leadership to communicate a ranked list of priorities.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As the leadership team gets tired of interim progress reports and longer-than-expected delivery dates, they lose heart and lose trust in the “maker” side of the company. So something new becomes the #1 top priority. Kids build their own nuclear reactors!

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. Navigating the corporate landscape to secure the leadership’s buy-in and resources is a big part of their job.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And it’s not just the startups playing this game – Steve Jobs was proudly averse to the notion of subscriptions, and now Apple spends most of its earning calls boasting about the performance of its services division.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps. It does so without binding itself to precise timelines.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years. Now we need to deliver something beyond product information and walkthroughs to add the kind of value that will differentiate us from our competitors.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. Through our customer discovery interviews we learned that we could differentiate GoToMeeting with several innovative “features.”

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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. Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Hamilton narrowly defines a successful strategy as creating a route to persistent differential returns for your business. Switching costs.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07] I love figuring out where to start on a product, who the right customers are, and what the key differentiator is. Context-switching is also hard.

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

Company size differentiates the depth of thinking a product manager takes when developing the product strategy and roadmap. Startups are more likely to comprise of long-term horizontal thinking that could be six months where a larger company may be thinking in terms of years. Able to maintain strong ownership/leadership of process.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

Determine how to position your products to differentiate from competitors. Get approval from leadership and resolve conflicts. Early-stage startups have less expertise and fewer resources. They need to balance their speed of execution and strategic planning, which is a huge cost for early startups to invest in.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. See Leadership Tip# 10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team.). Here are some examples: If you're a startup, probably once every week or two, as you learn what your users want and what you want to offer. Business agility requires change. Do you agree?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. Being plug-and-play, or aiming there, was our added value and a differentiator compared to other security products. Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The great news is there are a variety of startups out there waiting to help you! Offerpal has also sought to establish thought leadership in the space, putting together great articles for publishers as well as events to help publishers learn from each other's success. Incentivized CPA Offers and Direct Payments.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Their mission is born out of the desire to bring transparency to the workforce and to offer a platform for colleagues, peers, and leadership teams to honestly share information about salary, culture, career advice, and industry insights. Short on time? Anonymity can be a useful tool for empowerment (when used correctly).

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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