Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

Prompted by discussions with Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh , Phil Wolff and John Sebes , I’ve been thinking about tech products that are doing harm in the world – intentionally or otherwise. Genetic testing services didn’t set out to help law enforcement locate criminals in my extended family. What To Do? Reduce the surprises.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Startup Lessons: What I learnt pricing my product Original Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash , edited by Sheshank for this blog Pricing your product or service is one of the hardest things to do. Disclaimer: I don’t run a fortune 500 company but I’ll be honest and bare my soul(dramatic, sorry). I am going to share what I learnt.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 18, 2018

This law promises to do for California consumers, and quite likely all Americans, much the same that the General Data Protection Directive (GDPR) has done in the European Union. ” The main tenets of the new regulations are that consumers have the right to: Know what information is collected on them. Close but Not Quite GDPR.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 18, 2018

This law promises to do for California consumers, and quite likely all Americans, much the same that the General Data Protection Directive (GDPR) has done in the European Union. ” The main tenets of the new regulations are that consumers have the right to: Know what information is collected on them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

but there is limited information to be found on overcoming the corporate forces at play in massive companies. They’re great at doing more of what made them successful at scale. The tool had to be analysed by legal; he had to say what he was going to put on the web, and procurement had to get involved due to data privacy needs.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Examples of app menus: Tabbed Panels : Used to pack a large amount of information into a single interface element usually at the top or bottom of the app screen. However, it might still hold information on some narrow claims or policy issues. Below are a few notable trends in mobile design before we move on.

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Revulytics

MAY 9, 2018

As the founder and CEO of a B2B technology company who has been in the business of selling software for decades, it’s a trend that I’ve been validating in my meetings with private equity investors. But do you actually know who is using your software? Let’s be honest, there’s no love lost for license compliance.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

17:51] What can product leaders do to create stakeholder alignment? Subject experts—people who have knowledge you need even if they’re not interested in your product, e.g., legal team. Go to them and do a customer discovery interview. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [7:13]

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. Ramping up sales means hiring a Sales VP , jointly setting quotas, and letting the sales team do its work. TO GET TO YES.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

According to the company’s transparent product roadmap , the ‘follow’ feature will allow users to receive information about what happened on the call, without having to attend. Lyfts engineering teams explain how they do it. They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is pretty much the same.”

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. I don’t see most leaders doing this, though. We learn by doing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If an employee needs to step away for vacation and doesn’t want to be disturbed for a week or two, they can count on seeing the most relevant information when they return based on many signals: who they work for, who they work with, the groups they’re interested in, the people they’re following and more. That’s what we do.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 7, 2019

many product people feel obliged to do the talking (and miss the opportunity to shut the fu??ck let them share their knowledge, pains, challenges, goals, and use this invaluable information to shore up your market understanding and connect the dots required to build a successful product. Be the last to speak, and while doing so?—?gain

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Userpilot

JUNE 17, 2021

But where do you get demo data from? How do you use it transparently and ethically? To sell your product. We actually do this at Userpilot as well by using a dummy product called Campfire. And why does it matter? Read on to find out. What is demo content? The problem with empty states. How to use demo content correctly.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

There are people who spend their whole lives doing strategic analysis, so don’t expect to learn enough from this article to do more than just show enough knowledge to keep moving on in your interview. Do you remember that smartphones existed before Apple?]

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

By fixating on experiments many companies set the bar too high, miss out on easier opportunities, and often give themselves an excuse to keep doing things the old way. Interviews give us rich qualitative information?—?they they tell us why people do what they do, what’s their thought processes are, what they desire and fear.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2018

To prepare for the forthcoming GDPR (I’ve written more about the GDPR’s impact separately) I’ve become my company’s data protection officer (DPO). Could my company afford to pay fines of up to 4% of global turnover? Could anyone in my team afford a personal fine for a “deliberate” loss of data? Understanding Data Protection.

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Oren Steinberg

MARCH 7, 2017

B2B and B2B2C startups trying to sell into large corporations know this all too well: big companies like to work with other big companies. If you’re a startup or even a growth stage company trying to sell into large corporation, you lag behind larger players by sheer DNA. How can startups work with large corporations? corporations?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 8, 2022

Do you know why you want to work at Google? Google has a set of core values that guide everything they do, so try to integrate these into your response. Example Responses to "Why Do You Want to Work at Google?" I worked with two former Googlers, James Webb and Brendan Moore, at a crypto non profit before my current role.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. He’s also the author of a very, very, very recently released book, which is Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. How the hell do you keep track?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We will never sell your email address. So, um, let’s talk a little bit about some of the things that we do that, uh, I think perhaps might be inspiration for you all at your companies. Join the smart people who get BoS updates. Unsubscribe anytime. Transcript. Wade Foster: All right. Good morning everybody. Job Decsriptions.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

Jen Marshall: Would you like to send Clive out to actually do some work to help understand this better? Marie Kellett (CPO): I think Clive would be a capable guy to go out and do that. So, the benchmark of what the competition… or not necessarily competition, but other players doing similar things you’re doing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. If you can do something this week instead of next quarter, jump on it. Here’s Jamie.

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Tyner Blain

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

You know this information, but you don’t really know your audience, or why they might become your customers. Last month we looked at a single example of a customer expressing their wants instead of their needs – as most customers do. ” insights informs your understanding of your market.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

We help you do XYZ activity, but better!” We will never sell your email address. Claire Suellentrop: So no shame in saying when I made that Twitter handle Twitter wouldn’t fit my first name and last name all into one handle. Which has caused a lot of confusion over the course of my career. Look at our cool features!

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Jennifer Brown is a leading diversity and inclusion expert, dynamic keynote speaker, best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and host of The Will To Change podcast, which uncovers true stories of diversity and inclusion. I am so excited and honored to talk with my guest today on this matter. Meet Guest: Jennifer Brown.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. They don’t know what you want them to do. They aren’t motivated to do what you want them to do. They’re not capable of doing what you want them to do. We will never sell your email address.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

These barriers, these no trespassing signs, you can’t do that. We never do it like that. Um, we put all of this in front of ourselves as a barrier and, um, and because of this, because of these self limiting beliefs, we stop ourselves from doing the things we really want to be doing. I want to go with my parents.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 6, 2009

Before moving on to a new phase in my career, I always like to reflect on the previous experience and put together key takeaways that I can leverage in the next opportunity. It's that time again as this past Wednesday was my last day at imeem. Everyone knows that A/B testing is a good idea and they should do it. Content Matters.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. In doing this, the lives of 125 million Americans who work in the services-providing industries will join the digital transformation of the economy. The next era will do the same to the $9.7

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

This discussion is critical because the supply side — homes/hosts for Airbnb and drivers for Uber — are the most important aspect of most consumer marketplace startups, which I’ve written about this in my previous essay, “ Why Uber for X Startups Failed: The Supply Side is King.” Paul Graham, founder of YC. Cost: Small.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

This discussion is critical because the supply side — homes/hosts for Airbnb and drivers for Uber — are the most important aspect of most consumer marketplace startups, which I’ve written about this in my previous essay, “ Why Uber for X Startups Failed: The Supply Side is King.” Paul Graham, founder of YC. Cost: Small.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

So today we are excited to announce groundbreaking new products, and we’re going to do more than just talk about them – we’re going to demo them. And we do this at internet scale with modern next-gen tools that grow with you. So you will actually get to see them and see how they will deliver breakthrough value to you.

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