Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. I then stayed with Dell for three years, and left to start Guru in 2013. How did you all get to product-market fit ? Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey.

Customer Experience

ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. As I continued to help launch products, I realized that I was prepared to dive into entrepreneurial life myself. As a product manager working for others, I was playing with someone else’s money.

Product Management

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. In 2013, they convinced Pieterjan Kempynck and his associates that it was time to build their own team. The product and engineering teams grew fast too. It appeared that Talentsquare was their “last distraction”.

Research Software

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I joined our two founders ( Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni ) very early (around $100K ARR) before officially launching Gainsight in 2013. We launched in 2013 with the premise of “software for Customer Success Managers.” Product, Marketing, CS, Sales, and other functions focused their deliverables around the event.

Customer Experience

Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

In fact, the MVP doesn’t have to be a product at all. 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.

User Testing

Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

Research Software

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

6 masterpieces released on the Definitive Jux label In 2013, together with Killer Mike, EL-P established Run the Jewels (RTJ). This not only requires a strong vision, or what the more cynical would call childish naivety. In this pivot, you broaden the range of services/products being offered.

Feedback Software

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

From day one, when we launched Close in January 2013, we wanted to own Close.com. Yahoo and eBay don’t really matter as much anymore in today’s world, but Amazon is very much in the forefront with the newest version of companies and has reinvented and expanded its vision so many different times.

Weak Development Team

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Product tours are a useful tool for SaaS companies in 3 main areas: New user onboarding. Most SaaS teams create product tours in order to show their new users around their product. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. A/B test your product tour.

Analytic Tools

Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

But this process was also hard: We had to get alignment across Product, Marketing, Sales, CS and PS on what our end-to-end value (from 30K feet to 30 feet). Lesson: In many markets, the patient tortoise beats the over-anxious hare. But the spirit was the same: We are the experts on how to get value from our software.

Analytic Tools

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. Both founded in 2013, ProductPlan and Roadmunk offer software that makes it easy to build and share beautiful roadmaps. For each activity, a product manager will often use a tool, be it Jira, Azure DevOps, and even Slack.

Feedback Software

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. Both founded in 2013, ProductPlan and Roadmunk offer software that makes it easy to build and share beautiful roadmaps. For each activity, a product manager will often use a tool, be it Jira, Azure DevOps, and even Slack.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. 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. Everpix and Google Wave didn’t satisfy the market.

User Testing

Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101. I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

Product Research

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The growth team was originally created in 2013, founded by Ed Baker. Above: The easiest way to talk about The Product Death Cycle. Unfortunately, this is how products are often shipped and released. You have someone with a vision, who builds some features and does a launch. Product teams focus on creating core value.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

billion in 2013), along with nine other companies (including another company he sold for over $1 billion). If you’ve lost product-market fit, it’s time to go back to square one. Ask yourself: what’s changed in the market, and how can we adapt to stay relevant?

Technical Review