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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow.

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Importance of A Holistic Product Function in A Startup

The Product Coalition

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Tools like Asana or Jira can be used for the same.

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11 Types of Product Managers for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

The role of the growth product manager focuses on identifying and maximizing product growth opportunities. The product launch manager collaborates with the marketing team to develop launch plans and oversees their implementation. Hardware product managers are responsible for building and launching physical products.

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Product Failure: Why New SaaS Products Fail and How to Avoid it

Userpilot

Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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The Rise Of Customer Development

The Product Coalition

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Instead of implementing the entire product, teams started to engineer small increments and test them in the market.

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Product Talk is Growing: Meet New Instructor Ellen Brandenberger

Product Talk

I let Pearson know that I was looking for something full-time rather than an internship—and I was also considering a product role at a startup. I spent three years at Pearson, then I joined Thinkful—which at the time was about a 60-person startup. It’s foundational to leadership and product in an outcomes-based world.