Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

It might be tempting to say, something we can market or sell. And how would others, including people from development, marketing, and sales, answer this question? Revenue-generating products typically become profitable when they have achieved product-market fit and start to grow. Is that a product?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. This is achieved through aligning vision and strategy and communicating that alignment relentlessly. Secondly, you have to be a ruthless prioritizer.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shopify Plus was launched in 2014 to offer large & hypergrowth businesses a customizable enterprise platform without the cost of existing options. Having created and dominated the online storefront market for SMBs, this was a key part of Shopify’s strategy to build a business to last 100 years. What do they want?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. It’s not that different from the current design. 2013 – Launch as Yimby.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 3, 2019

In the last five years alone, we’ve seen 150 unicorns claim their place, compared to the 39 unicorns founded in the prior decade (2004-2014). Lemonade has never built a product roadmap, but they have nurtured processes that incentivize employees to use data daily. 42% of startups fail because they didn’t solve a market need.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Kalungi blog is focused on educating users about how to implement inbound marketing in their SaaS businesses. Chaotic flow blog focuses on SaaS marketing, SaaS sales, SaaS metrics, and cloud computing. Ready to dive in?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Customer experience, or CX, is critical in today’s user-centered market. Marketing, customer support, and product managers can check out these CX resources to stay ahead of the curve: Awesome reads to help you improve customer experience. Fortunately, customers aren’t the only ones with ample available information. Don’t Make Me Think.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 16, 2022

But to accomplish all of this during a global crisis while reframing and reimagining themselves in a post-pandemic market? We see the rise in demand most often in companies that have embraced the idea of product-led growth , a business strategy in which the product “sells itself” through experienced value. Final Thoughts.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

Shown below, the main responsibilities of the PM include: product strategy, roadmapping & release management, product requirements management, and market/product research. But some of these tasks could be taken on by other roles such as marketing, project manager, business analyst, technical product manager, etc?—?it

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? Marketing – how will you tell people that you’ve built something? Marketing It’s a similar story for product marketing.

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Feedback Software Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback 52

Mixpanel

JUNE 3, 2019

In the last five years alone, we’ve seen 150 unicorns claim their place, compared to the 39 unicorns founded in the prior decade (2004-2014). Lemonade has never built a product roadmap, but they have nurtured processes that incentivize employees to use data daily. 42% of startups fail because they didn’t solve a market need.

Data Visualization 40

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Customer experience, or CX, is critical in today’s user-centered market. Marketing, customer support, and product managers can check out these CX resources to stay ahead of the curve: Awesome reads to help you improve customer experience. Fortunately, customers aren’t the only ones with ample available information. Don’t Make Me Think.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Janna is the CEO and co-founder of ProdPad, product management and roadmapping software for product people, an international speaker, as well as co-founder of Mind the Product. Janice Fraser, SVP, Bionic.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Most recently Jeff co-founded Neo Innovation (sold to Pivotal Labs) in New York City and helped build it into one of the most recognized brands in modern product strategy, development and design.

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Research Software User Testing Customer Experience Workshop 76

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

From R&D to marketing, sales, and logistics, PMs operate in ambiguity. Bachelor’s in Marketing, an MBA, or a technical degree depending on which company you’re targeting.) It’s your responsibility to build the product roadmap. In volatile times like these, it’s no surprise that PM jobs are growing fast. Technical expertise.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

One random day back in December of 2014, I discovered CodeCademy, which is a platform that provides coding courses. If there’s a Project Manager layer on a Product Team, they’re usually working close cross-functionally to understand dependencies and risks in collaboration with Engineering, Marketing , and Sales. I fell in love with it.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Lastly, B2C seems to be a winner take-all market. Of course all of this is from 2014–16 while I was there so things should be a lot different now. I loved your blog post on product roadmap. Other than these, there’s just the product roadmap that we maintain in a Google Sheet. There are no one or two hacks that stand out.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Lastly, B2C seems to be a winner take-all market. Of course all of this is from 2014–16 while I was there so things should be a lot different now. I loved your blog post on product roadmap. Other than these, there’s just the product roadmap that we maintain in a Google Sheet. There are no one or two hacks that stand out.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. Big clients end up dictating the roadmap, there’s no product vision, and your product quickly turns into incoherent bloatware. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. being willfully naive about marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. Big clients end up dictating the roadmap, there’s no product vision, and your product quickly turns into incoherent bloatware. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. being willfully naive about marketing.

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Marketing User Testing Customer Experience Messaging 165

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. It started in our R&D team using it for roadmap planning and goal tracking. Just yesterday, someone in the product marketing team shared a Coda doc with me that’s acting as the entire project plan and content repository for another whole of our marketing site we’re working on.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. no longer aligns with company strategy and direction example: Dropbox’s 2014 foray into photo sharing, through their Carousel product. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.

Technical Review 144

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2023

After all, if you can leverage your product to drive your organization’s growth, there’s no need to rely on an army of marketing and salespeople. In today’s episode, we’re catching up with Mickey to talk about how companies can put products at the forefront of their growth strategy. Great weather as well.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I first became a CS Ops leader in 2014, and I’ve seen time after time the value of the software, enablement, templates, data, and more that I’ve helped provide. CS Ops can feel gratingly vague to understand since it lacks the long history and norms of our go-to-market cousins in Sales Ops and Marketing Ops. What do you do ?”

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rich Mironov: Answering Your Audience’s Roadmap Questions. Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian: Alternative Marketing, or “Oops I Did A Marketing” Ayat Shukairy: Why “Customer First” Fails & What To Do About It. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Talks from BoS USA 2014.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is very common in large companies, and in this model, the product manager is really a project manager and roadmap administrator. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. It was only $60M vs. Windows which at that point was more than a $1B market. The product manager can do his or her job.

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UX Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

I personally started using this term for Product Designers, originally when I first worked with Startups (going back to 2014). I realized Product Designers were taking upon themselves the strategy and execution of a variety of aspects that could be tackled by an array of specialists under the Product Design mantle.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 19, 2020

And so, all of a sudden we went to market and like we didn’t do a big launch because we didn’t know how to launch products and if we still know how to launch products or features and all of a sudden within like three weeks everyone was like ‘Have you heard of this company called baremetrics that launched in the market?”.

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