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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

Looking back, I didn’t see these activities as marketing with a capital M, but they absolutely were. In the very early days of Intercom the marketing hat fell on my head, but I’d be doing marketing a disservice (and 2011 Des a disservice) if I said that’s what I thought I was doing. Pitching your product.

Startups 201
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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there. This required a whole new level of thinking and a deep understanding of product-market fit.

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. With her background in product management and marketing, the lessons, stories and tips she has to convey will be very relevant to you. Informed: Wake Up Wisdom for Women” in 2011.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. In most cases, to support what the market really needs, the product needs to change as a whole?—?not

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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

10 Reasons Why Strategic Plans Fail, Aileron, November 30, 2011. What is Good Product Strategy? Don Stoddard has held senior positions is Product Management and Product Marketing over the last 20 years. A Guide to Writing Strategic Objectives, Tom Wright, February 21, 2015. Melissa Perri, July 2016.

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