The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

They also largely sell their products online, and lean heavily on both social media and influencers for marketing, where many of their millennial customers turn for guidance on products. At stake is a share of the global cosmetics-products market, which is expected to reach US$805.61 billion in 2017.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management? ” This platform specialized in location-based queries , allowing travelers to seek advice directly from residents of a particular city.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. million apiece.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like. So I revived one of my old Reddit accounts I made back in 2010, Sir Jack, to post something like, “Here’s my 20x gains in four months.”

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In 2010 Lego was profitable with sales of $2.3 For example a “how do I” question means that the customer already knows that something is possible with your product, so it’s not a product marketing or education issue, it’s a user experience issue. Product marketing issues. billion, and in 2015 sales were $5.2

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. After achieving product-market-fit, it’s all about building a scalable business and, with a larger team, there are focus areas like recruiting, optimizing the unit economics, growth, possibly fundraising and so forth.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). 1) cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness). 2) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM). More in 2020.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

All these products were searching for product-market fit. As I continued to use these methods as a Product Manager in enterprises and other more mature companies, I had to customize both my definition and the practice of building Minimum Viable Products. This is may not be the best idea.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Boomi is a cloud integration company that I worked on and built for 10 years and was acquired by Dell in 2010. How did you all get to product-market fit ? Rick : I heard a great analogy that when you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. That’s problem one.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Windows, MSN and later led an engineering team at WordPress.com (2010-2012) responsible for Jetpack, Publicize and other features used by millions of people. . Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. His first career focused on UX Design. Register to get involved.

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Bain Public

JUNE 14, 2021

At its best, modern product management has become a holistic discipline that functions at the intersection of business, design, and technology to help teams drive towards product/market fit. Their goal is to bring like-minded individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build and belong. They have reached over 3.2

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Here are some questions to ask them: What adjacent roles do you usually work with (user researcher, UX designer, front-end developer, product marketer, etc.)? The fourth on our list of top UI designers is Funktional, an agency based out of Poland and was founded in 2010. How do you prioritize a scope of work?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

While it may make sense at a later stage to move to your own data center as you look to optimize costs, it rarely should be a priority in the tumultuous early days when you are still searching for product/market fit. AWS is currently offering completely free data transfer into EC2 instances for the first half of 2010.

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Product Beautiful

MAY 5, 2016

In 2010, I worked for Dell, and managed a small team who was responsible for portfolio management of several acquisitions that Dell had made over the years. Around the Spring of 2010, Pragmatic Marketing opened a role for a new Instructor position. Know your preference and use it to narrow your choices.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2018

We are always looking for new people to meet, new customers for our product, new goals to reach with our digital marketing or product marketing. People recognise themselves in brands and product as they were in atrium and forecourts In this document, Cultural Symbolism of Brands by Carlos J.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The sad truth is, if you don’t get your product out there and get feedback, you losing a ton of money that you invested in the product (the same money you could spend on slurping piña coladas on an island). when they presented Google Wave in 2010, because no one really understood what the hell it was and how it was supposed to work.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

And as marketers, it is always wise to go after people who make the buying decisions. million from 2010. So if you’re marketing a product tied to software, there’s a good chance that a software developer is involved in your product’s evaluation process. The developer population is increasing.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit.

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Usersnap

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, getting an answer to a question, purchasing or returning a product, or resolving an issue. Researchers with the Corporate Executive Board discovered in 2010 that the more effort exerted by customers, the lower their level of customer loyalty. It is the middle ground between the short-term CES and the long-term NPS.

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Mixpanel

MAY 17, 2021

When Elad puts on his entrepreneur hat, he has one piece of advice for startup founders looking for fast growth: Find product-market fit. “It He sees the demarcation—pre-product-market fit and after product-market fit—as clearly as a line in the sand. It sounds very trite, but it’s incredibly hard.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

My job was to look at what was happening in the world economy – it was like 2010 at the time, and so everything was kind of falling apart – and then look at data about it and try to come up with recommendations about what policymakers should do. It was a collaborative, kind of a Slack-type product that was mobile-focused.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

– gotta love those 2010 app names). When people don’t want your product, no amount of new customer acquisition is going to solve that. And then the product stalls, per the graph above. Yes, you can sometimes generate very fast growth rates for a few weeks or months, but eventually it catches up to you.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 19, 2019

2010-2019: The 5 Most Watched Talks From Business of Software Conferences. 4 // The Product-Market Fit Engine – Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman). Did you know can optimize for Product-Market Fit? As I hope you know by now, you can watch over 200 talks from Business of Software online for free.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In the early social network days — think of this as around 2005-2010 — the model for increasing viral factor was simple. It’s actually retention, and strong product/market fit. It’s the tail wagging the dog. And let me explain why. How viral factor can nudge you towards spammy thinking.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

So it was always like and I finally I sold it in before I started Performable like 2010 and because I never thought it was a business. ML : So I think one of the things that comes across from you is that you were very very people think of you as a product. And by the fifth time you’re certifiable at this point.

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Amplitude

APRIL 12, 2018

Sandhya : Yeah, yeah, so I’m the director of product at Amplitude, one of the things I’ve done is led work along with the team on a lot of the new products that we have launched. And I’m also working on our product marketing strategy because what we realized was that the way product people buy is very different.

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Amplitude

APRIL 12, 2018

Sandhya : Yeah, yeah, so I’m the director of product at Amplitude, one of the things I’ve done is led work along with the team on a lot of the new products that we have launched. And I’m also working on our product marketing strategy because what we realized was that the way product people buy is very different.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

So, as a business begins to discover its business model, its product market fit it begins to enjoy the recipe for success or, more specifically, its leaders do. They formed in 2010. And by 2015 Gillette had lost something like 16% of its market share. market all the way through to down to 59%. So, what happens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense. I think Intercom ships products at higher quality levels, both in terms of bug qualities, but also in terms of product-market fit, and faster than really most any other company around.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Talks from BoS USA 2010. Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Greg Baugues: Mental Health – What You Can Do.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And then in 2010, we got our first customer. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So, I sold off the ad networks, not for a lot of money, but basically enough to like, be able to focus on the software. 2:43 Mark: Yeah. 2:57 Mark: That’s very timely.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Courses | Hiring | Swag Subscribe now Everyone working in product today knows about the Design Sprint—a five-day method for teams to design, prototype, and test new products. The process goes back to 2010, when Jake Knapp came up with the steps while helping build Gmail and Google Meet.

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