Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

In 2014, a software error on Amazon caused some items to drop to just one penny. Wasted time on bug reproduction and fixes The software development process is lengthy. If you're in an agile development environment, you must move quickly to build a stellar product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

I hosted Nir on our podcast to learn how to create healthy habits, how to avoid bad ones, what questions thoughtful product designers should be asking themselves, and much more. Here are five quick takeaways: We have good habits and bad habits , which are very different from addictions. Short on time? What makes a habit?

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Strengths/Weaknesses). During his first few weeks, he met with customers, partners, other external stakeholders and company leaders at their locations. Who should you start with?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt. We realized early that you can have all the tactics in the world but if they hit your homepage and your homepage is bad, it’ll go to s**t.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. Stefan Röse Stefan is the Senior Director, Strategic Accounts EMEA at Quantilope, a German-founded company established in 2014. But we also have a research consulting team. While flying from the U.K. to the U.S.,

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

And every major business school now offers an innovation class that leverages the business model canvas and other lean principles for developing a new product idea. A bad plan is better than no plan." This contrarian question helps you identify the unique insight from which you can develop a compelling business. Example: Box.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

NYU Professor Aswath Damodaran asserted that Uber was overvalued after a 2014 investment round. Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. Marketplace companies often end up employing teams of “launchers,” a specialized ops role focused on cracking new cities.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Developing a decentralized social media platform involves harnessing blockchain technology to create secure and transparent networks where users control their data. Launched in 2014, it’s an OG in the decentralized social media world. Launched by the Aave team in 2022, it’s a fully composable and decentralized social graph.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. The company has 14 partners, and at any point in time, each one curates a separate project with its separate team. and Facebook.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

They got a bad rep, but they’ve come through the other end, I think. I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I don’t know when Stripe was founded, but in 2014 they weren’t very mature. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. I do think it will continue.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s delve into the key benefits of concept tests: Build Lasting Customer Relationships : When you actively involve your customers in the development phase, it’s not just about getting feedback. Then, respondents answer the same follow-up questions, granting you deeper insights into each idea’s strengths and weaknesses.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Product School was founded in 2014 and now maintains 20 campuses around the world where they offer certifications in Product Management. From the outside, a Product Manager (PM) is a resolute individual responsible for completing a product’s development. What are the 4 Phases of a Successful Product Team One-on-One?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Europe lags behind North America and China in almost all respects, while in China the development of digital marketing is closely intertwined with the active development of e-commerce. At the same time, only 5% of respondents used digital marketing to develop business with the help of existing customers. Develop creative skills.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. In SaaS, as you develop your product and achieve product-market fit , you must consider the five user segments so you can improve product adoption and grow your business. They include: Innovators.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Another type of challenge is called “whiteboard challenge”, which, in addition to potentially falling into the above unethical categories, involves inviting the candidate to the office and asking them to solve a prompt at the whiteboard while members of the evaluation team observe the candidates and/or interact with them.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 18, 2018

This lack of insight more recently lead brands into a lets do it ourselves approach, where they rather train their internal teams to use a smaller set of ad tech platforms instead of maintaining a bevy of managed service vendors. One of the biggest challenges we had to overcome was from our internal teams. What We Launched?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 20, 2022

Swift was introduced in 2014 as a more powerful and intuitive coding language than its older parent, Objective-C. Most recruiters look for native iOS developers and engineers with knowledge of Swift, one of the most modern, reliable, and robust coding languages. What Tools are Required to Develop iOS Apps? What Does init() Do?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. A scatter plot shows the correlation between numeric variables – whether that correlation is linear or non-linear, strong or weak, positive or negative. Analyzing team performances. A linear scatter plot.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. Leading a diverse team. Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+. And ultimately.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. He led an international team for a while, focused on running experiments in new markets, and did growth work breaking ground in Latin American and other developing markets.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. At the time, back in 2014, this was so much easier than having to navigate around using Google Maps. They’re addictive. And stimulating. But by themselves they produce little. Building things should mean you’re adding value.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. And, the SVP of Sales who would stop by my desk in the mornings to share the good and bad about the product and my team with me. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. It can sometimes be a bit different in B2B where even if 20% of your customers strongly desire a feature, it is likely that you will consider developing this feature. Probably not.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. I, myself, started off as a developer. My role changed from developer to recruitment. I was just focusing on building the team. As the team started to grow, there was more of a need to have some structure and product management.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. It can sometimes be a bit different in B2B where even if 20% of your customers strongly desire a feature, it is likely that you will consider developing this feature. Probably not.

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Usersnap

JULY 18, 2022

The buttons became more popular after Google released material design principles in 2014. After that though, you’ll be able to add exactly what you need to make sure the feedback goes to the right place, right team, and at the right time. The shape, position, and color help distinguish action menus above the user interface (UI).

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Jackson (@StartupLJackson) May 17, 2014. The final step of your plan should be to develop additional emails that drive deeper engagement and retention from your most valuable prospects and customers. When our sales team added personalized videos to their emails, replies increased by 52%. As of right now, there are about 3.8

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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