Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? The initial phases 2 and 3 (the time between startups raising Series A to raising Series B) play a massive role in achieving the 2T3D growth dream.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. In this article, we’ll uncover the common branding mistakes that have haunted both enterprises and small ventures.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. It was a great experience working in an MNC that functions with the startup mindset. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. Best for large enterprises. ease of use.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2011, he founded Flashpoint, a first-of-its-kind deliberate innovation studio, to develop formative leaders and exceptional technology startups. Both at Flashpoint and at CDI, Merrick works with hundreds of founders and innovators and is developing the discipline of Deliberate Innovation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Was Steve Blank (the person who first coined this phrase) trying to tell us that before building a company, a team, it is important to first verify where and how a product will fit into a given market? Part of product development is understanding how it will be supported. And again, my confusion grew.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or I’m part of an angel network that invests in early-stage startups.  The

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Janice built her career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. She also guides several venture-funded startup companies, federal government entities, and non-profit organizations. It was the hottest startup in history.

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2024

In our field, the composition of Customer Education teams can vary wildly. Some CE teams are made up of Customer Success Managers (CSM) or other customer-facing team members, while others leverage Instructional Designers (IDs) to do the work. Particularly when it comes to hiring a team. So who’s in charge?

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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. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. Sometimes it makes me crazy AF.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise. A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. 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. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The product team must then develop and execute its product strategy within those boundaries. Imagine a software startup. The founding team sees long-term value in not having to make decisions based on the demands of outside owners. With limited funding, the startup will need to generate revenue quickly.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. It works when each customer is extremely large, but there’s a caveat: you do a lot of dedicated development (which means expensive resources) for each and every customer.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part large enterprise tech companies meant to connect between the company’s goals, the department’s, the team’s and even personal goals over a specified period of time. This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. Questions not to ask There are such things as bad questions when you’re interviewing a user.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

The most important take-aways were the importance of consistent one-on-ones and realisation that team diversity can sometimes oppose the team culture and this is not a bad thing. Of course we had internal discussion about this situation in my team. Company culture vs team diversity. Mentorship experience.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. Instead, it was an MMORPG called Glitch.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. FullStory is used by enterprises and large organizations but the platform has a few shortcomings: Mobile integrations. What is FullStory used for?

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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. For Cohen and Smart Bear, solving simple problems was a bad strategy.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. According to CB Insights, this is 42% of startups.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Userpilot – best digital analytics platform for analyzing the customer journey Userpilot is a product growth platform built for enterprises, offering advanced analytics capabilities. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Userpilot – best digital analytics platform for analyzing the customer journey Userpilot is a product growth platform built for enterprises, offering advanced analytics capabilities. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Userpilot – best digital analytics platform for analyzing the customer journey Userpilot is a product growth platform built for enterprises, offering advanced analytics capabilities. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product.

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