The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The WhatsApp product managers may have come up with a way to make money Image Credit: Marina Stroganova. So just imaging this scenario: you are the product manager for a wildly successful mobile application. As a product manager, how would you go about transforming your free-to-use service into a money making machine?

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The role of the product manager is changing faster than ever. Here are some of our favorite product and product management quotes from the top product leaders over the years. Here are some of our favorite product and product management quotes from the top product leaders over the years. Yan , Product at Remitly / @crystalcy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

All of these products had a huge Total Addressable Market (TAM), and were clearly Feasible, but failed to differentiate themselves in any meaningful way. The market subsequently allowed them to slide into obscurity. Sadly, almost a year later, Snap announced that it had managed to sell ~150k units only?—?and The Zune Is Dead.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

link] Let's talk business Strategic Changes WhatsApp’s journey has been marked by strategic changes aimed at enhancing its value proposition and market position. Sequoia, on the other hand, reaped significant rewards when Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a staggering $22 billion in 2014. Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, Inc.,

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Product Beautiful

MAY 28, 2014

On this Friday, June 6, 2014, I will be presenting at a virtual conference called PIPELINE 2014. PIPELINE is put on by Planview , and will include presentations about a wide variety of topics of interest to Product Management and Marketing professionals, including innovation, ideation, prioritization, and how to change your culture.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2021

Being a product manager in a growth industry is one of the best jobs that any of us can have. This is exactly how life must be for product managers who are involved in the fracking industry. A product management job in this industry has been one to have for a long time. The Problem With Sand. generates its supply.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Visionary Approach: Revolutionizing Investment Management Photo by Gilles Lambert on Unsplash Discover how Scalable Capital elevates user experience by integrating cutting-edge mobile scanning technology into their mobile application. The Vision Investing and managing assets can be a daunting endeavor for many individuals.

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Product Culture

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Some of you may know that I've taken on a role as Vice President and Chief Evangelist for the Boston Product Management Association. The BPMA is the second-largest professional association for product managers and product marketers, after the SVPMA, and I am honored to be involved.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 1, 2021

However, the product managers at Amazon have come to a realization that they need to find a way to save money. That kind of increase in sales would look good on anyone’s product manager resume. All of this would make you think that it must be a great job to be a product manager for one of those companies that makes boxes.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

Product Management teams need to pivot from asking “What do we want to build?” Product managers are uniquely placed to tie these pieces together, and best practices follow a process that results in strategic linkage between strategy, objectives, and roadmap. The Fundamentals – Objectives & Key Results, NikeT , Nov 27, 2014.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The product managers at Amazon have a bit of a problem on their hands right now. However, Alexa exists in a very competitive market. This means that the Amazon product managers have to do something to make their product unique. The Amazon product managers want to find ways that the use of voice commands can be expanded.

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Good Product Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Top Challenges for Product Management. At SiriusDecisions, we’ve recently been conducting research into the top priorities of product management leaders. We’ll be sharing more results from the survey in the “Priorities for Product Management Leaders for 2015″ webcast.

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Good Product Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Common Mistakes in Implementing a New Product Management Framework. Based on our research at SiriusDecisions, we know that improving the overall product lifecycle management framework/process is a top priority for the coming year for many b-to-b product management leaders. What tools do you use for product management?

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bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 3, 2017

While talking to her we realized her deep roots in Product Management in the Greater Boston area all way into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 80s. Product Management was still figuring out if it’s a necessary discipline in software companies. Cute puns aside, there is truth to these issues even today.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 12, 2019

Change is happening and watch product managers need to learn to deal with it Image Credit: Barron Fujimoto. What can watch product managers do to change things? The Problems Facing Watch Product Managers. The challenge that watch product managers are facing is that we now live in a different world.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

To grow our customer base and market share? By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2020

Carlos founded Product School in San Francisco in 2014. Today, the company is the global leader in product management training with 20 campuses worldwide and a live online campus. Let’s take a look at what product managers need qualitative data for and how to do it right! Useful for breaking into brand new markets.

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Sequent Learning

MAY 6, 2021

The Product Manager’s Desk Reference has been updated for a post-Covid world while providing a reliable resource for product managers to excel in their role. This book often referred to as the “bible of product management” was originally published in 2008 and 2014. I highly recommend this book! Tate Atkinson.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, more than 140,000 managers are using this platform to grow their businesses on social networks. It includes functionality allowing a product to work in the market and generate income. Specialists will collect feedback and find out that not everyone manages to keep balance. To begin with, the team will offer a MVP?—?a

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 13, 2019

Over time, products can serve an increasingly heterogeneous market and provide a large number of different features, some of which may not be used by all users. Your third option is to structure the product backlog in order to make it more manageable thereby hiding detailed items. Hide the Details.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

Nobody wants you to be more awesome than your manager does, because when you're amazing, your manager, his life gets easier, her life gets easier. Subscribe now People should matter more than the location I’ve been working remotely since 2014. So, I just think that the mentality we get into [of], "No, no, no. They're not.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2014, General Motors faced a huge crisis after faulty ignition switches caused 124 deaths. Leverage Complaints in Your Content Marketing Strategy. Apart from that, the company’s marketing strategy revolved around its attempts to fix issues and convinced its customers that they didn’t have a reason to worry about safety.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 16, 2022

In the years leading up to the pandemic, there was already a notable increase in demand for product managers. And as organizations pivoted to digital spaces, this hunger for product management expertise grew ravenous. In a remote work environment, the demand for product managers has increased. Growth PM Explainer.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2021

A product that started out being built in a bedroom has now evolved into a household name amongst social media management platforms. Joel Gascoigne speaking at BoS USA 2014. Buffer now employs almost 90 people worldwide (remote-first) with a unique and loved company culture. A decade of transitions and decisions.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 12, 2020

The short video app creation market is getting increasingly crowded with new entrants every day. But, it has increasingly started focussing on the short video creation market, not just lifestyle videos. Roposo was launched in 2014 and has seen a steady growth in popularity since then. This app has also been around since 2014.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By leveraging content marketing and a solid professional network, Saravana Kumar grew the company from 0 to 250 customers. In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. In his words, “I went to a manager at the time, and I told him I wanted to build this solution.”

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2021

The agency serves high-growth SaaS startups and scaleups through excellence in product management, product marketing, product design, and brand. Brad Elsmore , Senior Web Developer — Brad joins Innovatemap to expand the agency’s product brand and marketing expertise with web development.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

While still in highschool, Rika started her company, AMF, a marketing startup run entirely by girls in their teens. She’s developed a reputation as a “marketer who hears the voices of young girls around Japan.” In 2014, she founded another startup, KIDSLINE — an online babysitter matching service.

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DevelopmentCorporate

APRIL 22, 2022

As Q1 ended, the impact of the recent market downturn in SaaS company valuations could clearly be seen. SaaS Enterprise Value/Revenue Multiples 2014 – 2022 High Flying SaaS Companies Have Taken a Major […]. Median Enterprise Value/Revenue (ttm) multiples dropped 24% in comparison to Q4 2021.

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freshtrax

JULY 16, 2019

Top 10 Japanese Startups by Market Capitalization. The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) is the world’s third largest and Asia’s largest exchange by market capitalization. We will focus on the Market of the High-growth and Emerging Stocks (Mothers) market which is usually where the shares of startup companies are listed and traded.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. The reality is we have to master both if we want to expand our addressable market and retain our existing customers as they grow.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Product managers attempt to get customers to shop for toys all year long. Product managers for stores that sell toys have an interesting problem on their hands. However, once Christmas has come and gone, just exactly how are the product managers supposed to get people to come into their stores? Image Credit: bygloricom.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The crypto market is not unfamiliar to the ever-growing NFTs! The NFTs, or the Non-Fungible Tokens, first appeared in the market in 2014 and have constantly been evolving ever since. This development of the NFT market can be divided into two categories and is described in detail below.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [3:04] Why was the OCI award created?

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator. Sign up for the webcast today !

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator. Sign up for the webcast today !

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 7, 2017

.” This SiriusView covers seven vendors whose offerings are designed to assist product managers with developing product plans, prioritizing features and enhancements, and maintaining and communicating product roadmaps. Podcast: B2B Product Management with The Everyday Innovator. Sign up for the webcast today !

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