The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Mixpanel

JULY 8, 2022

We’ve reached a major milestone: After only two years, more than 2,000 startups have graduated from Mixpanel for Startups and continue to use Mixpanel. Thank you to everyone who has participated in the program—it’s rewarding to be part of so many startups’ journeys! Mixpanel for Startups.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there is no silver bullet when it comes to market fit. Who are your buyers?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? To ensure you’re adding the right features and initiatives to your product roadmap, I’ve outlined several suggestions here.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Learning and growing are antagonistic by nature, which is why many companies face the roadmap dilemma. Ways that the Roadmap Dilemma Presents Itself. Deconstructing the Roadmap Dilemma. Both modes often cohabit on a roadmap. Solving (Avoiding) the Roadmap Dilemma. Your users change, and so should your product.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. Being the first person in the product team could be daunting.

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Userpilot

JUNE 17, 2022

How can product managers align with sales teams to build product roadmaps that deliver on customers’ needs? Do you spend too much time thinking about past victories instead of focusing on future success as a product manager ? He is also a three-time startup founder and CEO (one acquisition).

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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 26, 2018

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Problems yearn for solutions, needs long to be met, and markets are waiting to be addressed. This reality beckons startups and established firms to introduce new products that will scratch that itch and deliver satisfaction. Knowing when you don’t have product-market fit is simple.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In my last blog, we talked about being a PM in a Startup. What to expect as a Product Manager in a Scale-Up: How to strive as a Scale-Up PM: Be aware that you’ll need to balance optimisation with growth. You will be spending a bit of your roadmap patching up all the crappy short cuts that has taken you here.

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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. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product marketing speaker. AI and product management The use of AI in product management isn’t new; small and large companies have been doing it for years. She has a knack for strategic thinking and loves SaaS in general, especially product-led growth. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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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. Which roles exist in product management teams? Roadmap template from Miro.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When I asked them their biggest learning on the trip so far, they said- We have to learn how to pitch our startup in the “American” way More self promotional, emphasizing the future not the past, talking about what it could be not what it is, playing up even small bits of proof points, etc. TLDR; there’s pitch mode and dinner party mode.

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Hutwork

MAY 23, 2019

Product roadmap planning has become a huge success in getting products to market efficiently. Often companies find themselves asking, why roadmap? This brings us to our top 12 reasons for product roadmap planning and why it’s essential. 2—The Why and the What of Product Roadmap Planning.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash As a proud member of the startup nation, startups are all around me. Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. It’s no wonder there are many tools that try to resolve this. Here’s why. Tools cannot change any of that.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 24, 2019

I spent a fair amount of time detailing my framework for the 3 types of product management roles that exist in the industry, which I affectionately call builders, tuners, and innovators. The builder is probably the most classic product manager. They’re focused on driving the roadmap and building features to serve user needs.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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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. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap. Beta Testers For a new product or a startup, beta testers play a vital role in the product’s success.

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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. Hacker Noon.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

First, figure out if you’re at product-market fit (PMF) You’re at PMF if customers are banging at your door. If your customers pull your product so hard that you can’t catch up with demand. Great tasks: support research, translate strategy, write vision statements, roadmaps, and user stories. Or the other way around.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. It takes time to prioritize something in the roadmap, and it takes time to build products.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision? How do you create a roadmap? Discovery and Experimentation as Part of Product Strategy 5.Where Where to start – Product Discovery vs Product Strategy How Userpilot Helps. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction.

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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. For example, your title can be Senior Product Manager but you are actually required to do product leadership much more than product management (for example if you are the only product person in a startup).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. Your product changes too fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This echoes the philosophy behind Atlassian’s distribution flywheel where the product, marketing, and sales teams work together to remove as much friction in front of the customer’s path as possible in a transparent manner. The connected model makes sales, marketing, and product equal partners at the table.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [1:38] What kind of problems are executives of organizations talking about now?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 30, 2019

And then we would pull it all out into like a big list, like a spreadsheet, basically, stack rank it, and then the Sales team, with the Marketing team’s help, would then put opinion over it, you know? ” We again extract a data report, stack rank it, order it, and then that comes into the roadmap process as well.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing. Most product people start at this level. In your first product role, you are most likely to work on an existing product and on relatively small changes.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Andrea’s unique perspective and critical thinking have led her to contest a number of well-established notions in Product Management: from NPS, through KPIs and OKRs , Product Roadmaps , to Product Prioritization Framework – Andrea takes no prisoners. Susan’s largest contributions to the Product Management field.

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