The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. A great product — unlike many promises you might have heard — wouldn’t sell itself. It always helps.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. Note: everything I say here is true for mature product companies as well. The reason I’m talking here primarily about startups is that they are much more volatile than larger companies. And guess what?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I recently completed the process of hiring for a Head of Design role at my current company and was surprised when I couldn’t find much quality content anywhere (YouTube, Medium, even Google) on how to assess a designer’s portfolio, especially a designer for a senior leadership position.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. Now let’s look at the three product-led growth go-to-market types for SaaS companies. Types of SaaS Growth.

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Modus Create

JULY 2, 2021

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. It’s one thing to validate your idea in the market. Many startups struggle to carry the momentum of the initial growth spurt. . So, why do most startups struggle to scale? Until it isn’t. .

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Creating a new startup is a different challenge. A lot of companies are pumping out demos of AI passing the bar exam or creating a marketing plan in 30 seconds. The marketing plan created in 30 seconds is not good enough to implement. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. This is about established businesses.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. I waded in, relishing the reliving of how product management used to be done.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2023

The journey of leadership is, in many ways, a journey toward embracing our incompleteness Recently, I stumbled upon an insightful article by HBR titled “I n Praise of the Incomplete Leader ” and found it strikingly relevant. At first, I leaned heavily on technical jargon, missing the mark with marketers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

She’s spent her eight years in Product working for a variety of digital companies – from startups to publicly listed multinationals. In her opinion, there are marked differences in product management practice in AsiaPac and Europe. Today there are 45 product managers. Essentially, the whole thing has just exploded.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Especially with startups, by the way, which Marty mentioned to be “ so easily distracted ”. Quite a few weeks have passed since I attended SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ session.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

What product managers need to know about launching products. Today we are talking about go-to-market planning and what is involved in planning the launch of products. He is a technology product leader who has led teams as founder, early hire, and executive at companies including Facebook, Craft.co, and KCG holdings.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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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. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it.

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The Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Previously, she was part of the founding team at Blue Nile, spent five years in product marketing at eBay, and led marketing as an early employee at SurveyMonkey, before pivoting to operations as an SVP at Zendesk.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Challenge Upwards The CEO, startup founders, or your management chain up to the CEO, have authority over you. But on the other hand, they need you there, and if you give too much weight to their leadership you can’t become their partner. That’s not the leadership team that they need. That’s what real leadership looks like.

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Bain Public

JUNE 14, 2021

(Montréal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product of Bain Public joins Cédric Tawil, Director at Startup Grind Montreal , in a fireside chat discussing what the future of product management holds and how businesses can prepare for it. This fireside event is hosted by Cédric Tawil from Startup Grind Montreal.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. Who is LUCA Theory?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Leadership and management books haven’t been included because when you’re just a small team, amping up leadership capability provides less leverage than solid execution of the topics that I will cover. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank?—?This Lean Startup by Eric Ries?—?Build,

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The market, however, understood it differently. It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

As today’s uncertain market rapidly changes, remaining successful requires a more entrepreneurial product-orientation. Faced with breakneck business and product growth, roadmap decisions need to be non-bureaucratic, yet remain collaborative at the same time. Using Market Sensing and Knowledge Creation.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

When I think about the many things that drew me to Innovatemap, the presence of women in leadership roles comes to mind immediately. I’ve been fortunate to work with countless technology companies in my career, and while I met with an incredible number of women executives, CEOs, marketers and more, I most often saw myself in a room among men.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 2, 2021

He’s co-founder/CEO of his fourth startup, Thread. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Kieran is probably a serial entrepreneur – he founded his first business aged 15, (sold age 19 for $1.25m), his second and third were also acquired. Video below.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Product Collective blog offers lots of practical advice like early-career tips. Ken Norton offers lots of valuable insights based on years of experience in his Bring the Donuts product manager blog. Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Product Collective.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. Power Users All products have power users. and actively engaging their customers to find that fit.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Drives product success. Which roles exist in product management teams?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup. The Product I worked on did not exist. To top it off, I had no real Product Manager experience. A Lead Product Manager might try to interact with Leadership and Sales.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Each section covers the best practices for each of these four dimensions of product management. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

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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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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