Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

publication Shape Up – Stop Running In Circles and Ship Work That Matters , Head of Strategy Ryan Singer shares an approach that challenges most of the orthodoxy around Agile (as a framework) but retains all of the spirit of agile (as a philosophy).

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. The book is a great and entertaining read. I haven’t even talked about some of the valuable larger frameworks of mental models (although I do have blog posts about some – like Kathy Sierra’s “badass” approach ). Who the product is for (the market).

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? How chain letters were invented and rethinking its effectiveness in the framework of viral growth. The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

Question: How do you test a customer’s willingness to pay for a solution? What a lot of teams—especially startup founders—do is ask their customers, “Hey, would you pay for this? Tweet This A Good Approach: Ask About the Past So in the framework of good, better, best, what counts as “good”? Let’s dive in.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? How chain letters were invented and rethinking its effectiveness in the framework of viral growth. The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. Curious, I went through the interview process to put my learnings to the test. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. In the end, I walked away.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

Product teams – and especially B2B SaaS product teams – are all too familiar with subscription pricing, but it’s still rare to see many businesses outside of the major entertainment companies opt for micro subscriptions. A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

He joined JustGiving after two years at Vzaar, a startup that focuses on video streaming. A lot of product management content focuses on the final feature and assumes that everything went fine in testing. In testing you discover situations and scenarios that you hadn’t expected or planned for, he says. .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2019

Waterfall” is a broad categorization of traditional project management frameworks which are defined by stage-gating and phasing of a project over a long period of time. In Waterfall, this sort of “scope creep” often spawns a meeting or three, but in agile it’s all too easy to continue on the fast pace of ceremonies, planning, testing, etc.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 6, 2009

A/B Testing. Everyone knows that A/B testing is a good idea and they should do it. It's because A/B testing is hard and the tools often used to perform it are limited. Investing in A/B testing tools is hugely useful, especially for optimizing monetization for sites where small gains have huge effects due to volume.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

TL;DR Continuous Discovery Habits is a guide for Teresa Torres’ discovery framework. Sprint presents a practical and efficient approach to problem-solving and innovation , empowering SaaS teams to test and validate ideas quickly. The Jobs To Be Done Playbook and When Coffee & Kale Compete are guides to the JTBD framework.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

How do you test to make sure your opportunity is not a solution in disguise? Below the solution space are assumption tests. Break your solutions down into their underlying assumptions and prioritize which assumptions to test first. Test the riskiest assumptions from each of your three ideas. How do you find opportunities?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In my continuous discovery framework, I argue teams need to discover opportunities and solutions. For the purposes of this article, the following activities are not customer interviews: Usability tests or prototype tests or any other customer conversation about potential solutions. Tweet This. It takes practice.

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Indicative

OCTOBER 8, 2020

While early innovation around big data took place within large enterprises and e-commerce companies, capabilities are now available to startups, small businesses, and mid-market companies across a range of industries to better understand customers, improve product performance, optimize marketing, and more. Looking Ahead: Online Gaming Trends.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

I’m happy when my team picks whatever framework they like – whatever flavour of scrum or kanban or agile something else, or any process they want to use, I don’t care how they write user stories – if they write user stories.

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the most popular episodes of the year found Sandra Lin, Senior Product Director for Northwestern Mutual, exploring how the company evolved to offer digital experiences, while another episode found Karen O’Leonard, Head of Innovation at Willis Towers Watson, sharing how she implemented a testing and learning approach with her team.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

If you just pick what category your product fits in – is the cash cow or – we have these really simple frameworks you just apply the rules, you’ll solve the problem. And we’re losing a lot of the learning because every solution we entertain is going to help us better understand the problem.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills. Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. 3) And finally, to prioritize and make decisions that impact the future.

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the most popular episodes of the year found Sandra Lin, Senior Product Director for Northwestern Mutual, exploring how the company evolved to offer digital experiences, while another episode found Karen O’Leonard, Head of Innovation at Willis Towers Watson, sharing how she implemented a testing and learning approach with her team.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 13, 2020

Whether the game is taking on investors or the game is A/B testing, you’ve got to think how will this game end. So, let’s talk about A/B testing. A/B testing measuring the results of the test, but not the morality of the means. But who can argue with the objectivity of A/B testing producing measurable results?

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 23, 2020

Think of your favorite entertainment experience and maybe music and maybe a movie. The thesis is that every great mythological story follows essentially the same narrative structure and this framework became famous when George Lucas credited it for having influenced the original Star Wars trilogy. Our founder is running their startup.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. These are comprised of startups and a fair number of non-VC funded companies. A taxonomy of podcast creators.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. These are comprised of startups and a fair number of non-VC funded companies. A taxonomy of podcast creators.

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