The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I first heard of Elium , formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011. I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. In the framework of a project I lead at Elium, I had the pleasure to meet and interview a dozen founders of fast scaling companies.

Research Software

Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. Origin of Lean Thinking. Thiel starts by sharing the origin story of lean thinking.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Bob Moesta pioneered the Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framework in the mid 90’s, alongside Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. I constantly see software folks, people building startups, struggling to know where to stop. Then when the startup writes up the job, they say, “What does our product do?

User Testing

The Review by First Round

JUNE 17, 2021

Today’s episode is with Waseem Daher, co-founder and CEO of Pilot, a company that specializes in bookkeeping, tax prep, and CFO services for high-growth startups. Product pros also won’t want to miss learning from Waseem’s playbook honed over the course of building three companies. You can follow Waseem on Twitter at @waseem.

Framework

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

When I started writing about this in 2011, the general sentiment was these companies just got lucky, right? But now we use startup methodologies: we talk to customers and listen to what they say. Adam: Often, this framework can tilt too far in a way that isn’t positive for long-term users. If so, great.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. The wave of agile transition projects, particularly in large, established organizations over recent years, has provided those frameworks with a tremendous tailwind. just to name a few. Think of “MVP.”)

Product Research

Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

Based on our knowledge and experience we create our own frameworks and procedures that make our work more efficient and help us provide value to our clients month by month. It was 2011 when I started using Balsamiq. One of Alina's mobile app projects. One of Alina's web app projects. Why and how do you use Balsamiq?

User Testing

The Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

After a comms career at Google, Aaron joined Square in 2011 to lead corporate communications. The jobs-to-be-done of the comms function in the early days of a startup — and why it’s not a good customer acquisition strategy. A 3-question framework for simplifying your company message early on. Our guest today is Aaron Zamost.

Consulting

Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 22, 2015

When LinkedIn acquired my startup Connected in 2011, Elliot Shmukler was the sponsor for the acquisition and I ended up reporting directly to him. Invest in your analytics framework for measuring tests. And building out your analytics and testing framework is a worthwhile investment.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

Roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

Roadmap

Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Back in 2011–12, I wanted to create products that would help solve the problems I was facing or that my friends were facing. back in 2011–12. Work pro-bono part-time for 10–15 hours a week for an early-stage startup on their product. Any frameworks I can leverage? How did you get into product management?

Analytic Tools

Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

Wade Foster and his co-founder started Zapier (it rhymes with ‘happier’) back in 2011 during a hackathon. Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. At #BoS2018, he laid out the framework and explained how they use it. What did he learn? Watch Peldi's Talk.

Software Review

Bryce York

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Being a hackathon, I primarily drew from my personal experience working in Slack every workday since 2011. When approaching a project, whether a hackathon, feature, or a whole new startup, it’s important to start with your riskiest assumptions and go from there. The tutorial covered exactly what I needed but used the ‘wrong’ framework.

Artificial Inteligence

Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Back in 2011–12, I wanted to create products that would help solve the problems I was facing or that my friends were facing. back in 2011–12. Work pro-bono part-time for 10–15 hours a week for an early-stage startup on their product. Any frameworks I can leverage? How did you get into product management?

Analytic Tools

Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

Based on our knowledge and experience we create our own frameworks and procedures that make our work more efficient and help us provide value to our clients month by month. It was 2011 when I started using Balsamiq. One of Alina's mobile app projects. One of Alina's web app projects. Why and how do you use Balsamiq?

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

If you just pick what category your product fits in – is the cash cow or – we have these really simple frameworks you just apply the rules, you’ll solve the problem. But we all know that that’s not really true right. So, this is sort of the team process this is what the team does. And this is how I know.

User Testing

Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

This is part five in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Plenty of startups try to attack all three tiers of the market with the same product/channel/model. You Can't Think About the Fits in Isolation Startups are commonly instructed to just focus on product market fit in the early days. The reverse also happens.

Marketing