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Moving upmarket as a product manager: What changes and what stays the same?

Intercom, Inc.

This is a natural evolution for many SaaS tools as they move towards a healthier economic model, as captured in Christoph Janz’s seminal 2014 blog. In the race for market share, startups try to close the gaps on incumbent companies, while incumbents try to build new, differentiator features. Whoever does it fastest will win.

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Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product

Roman Pichler

For revenue-generating products, you should also investigate if the product is still effectively differentiated: Do users have a compelling reason to choose it over competitors’ offerings? Capture your decisions and document the new strategy for your product, for instance by creating a new, forward-looking Product Vision Board.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

We conducted two more retrospective analyses covering 2004-2013 and 2014-2021. Even though these companies were diverse in industry, size, and geography, their practices were consistent. How they executed those practices depended on their industry and culture.

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How Minimum Viable Products & Features Helped Me Write My New Book

Roman Pichler

While the workshop helped me validate the need the book should address, I was not able to tackle another key risk with it: writing the book in the right way so that the need was properly met and the product sufficiently differentiated. In September 2014, I had a first version of the book available for review—MVP number two.

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Speed and Substance: How To Innovate Consumer Insights

The Product Coalition

Stefan Röse Stefan is the Senior Director, Strategic Accounts EMEA at Quantilope, a German-founded company established in 2014. What differentiates you from the rest of the market?” Quantilope specializes in consumer insights technology, offering a platform to help businesses understand what consumers want and need.

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Jonathan Anguelov on Aircall’s $65 million Series C success

Intercom, Inc.

Jonathan, you mentioned Aircall’s original vision and mission back in 2014 when you got started was to reinvent the business phone. Jonathan: Back in 2014, we thought, “Okay, we need to be able to build a phone system that any entrepreneur can use anywhere in the world.” Jonathan: Definitely.

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The pitfalls of being data-driven

Mixpanel

Robert Moore , founder of data analytics company RJmetrics (now owned by Magento), wrote in 2014 about how they chose the headline for their first website:They let the data decide. This data-informed redesign helped with market differentiation for Hinge as the app focused on long-term relationships, not hookups.