The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2020

As an entrepreneur, CEO, or project manager, you might be interested in outsourcing software development to another country and getting still high-quality work done for fewer costs. Likely, we understand everything that may become your subject of concern when making a decision to hire an offshore software development company.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Each product development process starts with identifying the right problem to solve: you all remember that users don’t buy a drill for a drill itself or for a beautiful hole that this drill can make, they buy it for a nice dining room they want to decorate with a picture. Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A decade ago Steve Blank authored the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win to share with the world his philosophy for building winning products: customer development. Customer Development Maturity. And customer validation interviews are just one aspect of the customer development process.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Between 2002 and 2006, cybersecurity technologies for networks were now entering into a period of maturity. They began putting all of their time and effort into developing a solution to this problem but realized they were too early and the CSOs were unwilling to spend money on it because it wasn’t actually a priority.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 6, 2013

The meteoric rise of developer platforms over the last seven years has been impressive to watch and a major boon to the social and mobile ecosystems. In developing Connected, I saw some third-party APIs that had well functioning API ecosystems, while many certainly did not. Platform competes directly with existing applications.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

That means that they’ve worked closely with different cross functional teams, and have at least a broad understand of each stage of product development. Slack was “ born out of the style of communication that developed “ while Butterfield was working on a game called Glitch with Tiny Speck. That goes for both CEOs and Product Managers.

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The Product Bistro

MARCH 3, 2018

Lightroom (LR), or its official name, “Photoshop Lightroom” began as a public beta of a Mac only software in early 2006, was a response to Apple’s “Aperture” program targeted at professional photographers. All the while keeping the “classic” version alive, albeit with reduced new feature development velocity.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Not Getting Early Feedback This probably sounds very straightforward, but asking for feedback from the users later in the product development stage is a blunder. It saves four to six weeks of development time by aligning teams under a shared vision with clearly defined goals, deliverables, and validated solutions.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 8, 2018

I believe that an effective product management organization defines ‘WHAT’ the product is or will do and engineering /development defines ‘HOW’ it will do it. When one is placed under the other, a development/engineering person usually leads it, and there is little if no accountability. Business Development/Partner alliances.

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UserVoice

MARCH 21, 2017

Elon Musk published his initial “ Master Plan ” for Tesla Motors in 2006, then updated it ten years later. To develop the vision, PMs have to be creative and imaginative,” says Ameet Ranadive of Twitter, “They have to think differently than others, and imagine a future that others are not yet able to see.

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 24, 2017

Scion had it’s greatest number of sales during 2006. Ever since hitting a high in 2006, sales have been on a slide. However, General Motors eventually decided that it was too costly to develop new models for the brand considering how few sales they were having. Their best year for sales was back in 2006.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

In 2006, Alan Mulally took over as president and CEO of a struggling Ford Motor Company. It’s interesting to repeat this exercise at different phases of your team’s development – be it forming, storming, norming, performing. The biggest opportunity for improvement – in business, at home, and in life – is awareness.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 7, 2018

Says Nick Coster, “Since 2004-2006 when Facebook, Twitter and other social media ushered in a new era for the internet as a two-way medium, people shared the successes and failures of their product experiences with huge networks that enabled viral spreads of customer experiences. So why are Product Managers in short supply now?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Over the last few years, developers got some superpowers. Or at least, technologies such as open source bug tracking enabled developers to do amazing things. And those bugs are giving us, the developers, a hard time. Developers might need to link numerous other apps for different reasons and uses. And that’s incredible.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Let’s look at five of the most influential developments in design and innovation from the past 20 years. Platforms like Facebook (since 2004), X (formerly Twitter) (since 2006), and Instagram (since 2010) have changed the way we communicate. It’s exciting to imagine what developments may be coming next.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 16, 2019

in 2006 as my first PM job. Read more in our second part of this post, where I ask Shreyas how a product manager can go about developing one's product sense. I increasingly found myself doing product work and more in a state of flow when I was doing the product work than when I was doing the engineering work. I later joined Yahoo!

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation. Why this usually happens: Lack of originality: Be confident in your own ideas and keep developing a unique brand identity.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. It’s amazing to think about how much has changed since this blog started in 2006 — on the web, of course, but also for me personally and professionally. Ten Year Anniversary!

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

On December 4, 2006, I published my first post on this blog , where I wrote, “If you want to be a good product manager, share your knowledge. It’s amazing to think about how much has changed since this blog started in 2006 — on the web, of course, but also for me personally and professionally. Ten Year Anniversary!

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. Flash Forward 2005, San Francisco, U.S.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2019

Facebook was founded in 2004; Twitter in 2006—so it’s unlikely there are many people who meet the “15 year” requirement. Product management uses methods and models to take a product from a simple idea through validation and development and into the market. I’ve been blogging since 1999 so I probably qualify.).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The term freemium was first coined by Jarid Lukin at the suggestion of Fred Wilson in 2006. We often develop Judgmental heuristics (mental shortcuts) to navigate our everyday life without thinking. It defines and develops from social interactions we face, norms we follow and moral code we adhere to.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It’s conceived, developed, introduced and managed in the market, and retired when the need for a product diminishes. A Product Manager tries to find out the customers’ needs and develop a product to satisfy them. As Product Managers we should also develop relationships with the project managers in our business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing. Could you give me a bit of background on why HubSpot built Service Hub in the first place and the philosophy behind it?

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Video game consoles are platforms for gamers, game developers, tool developers, and peripheral manufacturers. Platforms also take the evangelism roles to ensure the development community it aware of the benefits of participating in the market. Integration. Microsoft has often played this role in the personal computer space.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

When developing a startup, figuring out a viable business model is as important as producing a compelling product. There have been various attempts at developing the online audio advertising space to date. TrueAnthem has developed an 8 second audio spot with a companion banner played at a frequency of once per session.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 12, 2018

Basics of customer/market validation of product ideas ahead of the development process. The mission of the Software Skillnet is to enable companies with software technology functions, to remain highly competitive, by facilitating active talent development and continuous up-skilling for staff.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 27, 2019

Who is she: Julie went from being the first intern at Facebook in 2006 to its VP of product design. Why I follow her: As a woman in product leading a company that’s creating developer tools, Ellen is breaking down stereotypes just by showing up for work every morning. Julie Zhuo @joulee.

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NextBigWhat

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

A few days after I joined as head of biz dev at Facebook in 2006, MySpace announced a partnership w/Google worth $1B. This deal gave us learnings and guaranteed revenue which we invested in R&D to develop social feed ads. I sent an internal email suggesting we pursue a similar deal and Zuck gave me a hunting license.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 1, 2018

However, in 2006 Apple started selling downloadable videos of movies and television shows via the store. The Apple product managers want services such as the Apple video sales to start to take over more of that revenue stream and so they are going to have to change their product development definition.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Example : The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) from August 2nd, 2006.) Don’t waste Developers on user tests : The developers do not participate in user tests because they are deemed too valuable/expensive. Excluding the developers from that decision process flaws the whole process from the beginning.

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Revulytics

JANUARY 30, 2018

We have been in business since 2006 and our sole focus is software usage analytics. And when you need to perform advanced mining, you can download full data exports for CSV or JSON. Revulytics: the Partner You Can Depend On.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Offerpal makes it easy for any publisher to integrate, offering a complete self service platform as well as a dedicated business development and technical staff ready to assist you in your implementation. TrialPay , founded in 2006, has a long history of providing qualified offers from prominent merchants.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 4, 2022

In 2006 or 2007, a little too late, I moved to WordPress. Here are the posts you might have missed: Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take. (There were several versions of easy-to-use HTML site builders. I'm sure I used most of them.). When I started to blog in 2003, I used Blogger.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2009

Scrum, an Agile process framework, is one of the most highly-regarded ways of managing development projects faster, with better outcomes. Of course, I am creating a stylized and sweeping generalization about development organizations and incumbent skills, and it is not meant as a disparaging indictment, it is designed to illustrate a point.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2020

In 2006, Zune’s ability to wirelessly send a song from one device to another was way ahead of its time. You’re the person guiding the development of your product, and you’re the person who can make design a priority. Robbie Bach Before you say that Zune didn’t have a USP compared to the iPod, it actually did.

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