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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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 17, 2017

Product Management teams need to pivot from asking “What do we want to build?” You can also link the product roadmap to your objectives. 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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the past 7 years Mind the Product has run #mtpcon in London and San Francisco and #mtpengage in Hamburg – the biggest and best product management conferences in the world. Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen. 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes by Dave Wascha.

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2021

Innovatemap, a digital product agency and three-time Inc 5000 award winner, announced today the addition of five new hires, a new client delivery service, and a new location for service delivery. The agency serves high-growth SaaS startups and scaleups through excellence in product management, product marketing, product design, and brand.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2021

Launched in 2019, the Better Product podcast was created to connect product professionals and give real-world insights about the good, the bad, and the ugly behind digital products that have launched businesses and changed the world. Learn more at betterproduct.community.

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2022

“The advantage a founder has when working with us is that they get a team of product experts who have experience with hundreds of startups and scaleups. It’s experience that individual product hires won’t typically have. Innovatemap is a digital product agency with a headquarters in Indianapolis and a second office in New York City.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

He has a storied career across enterprise and consumer products, and has been a product manager since the pre-internet era in the early 90s. Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach. She also held product and design roles at Become.com and HighWire Press. Kathy Pham, Fellow at Mozilla, Harvard, and MIT.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

A product, however, achieves success if it meets it business goals. Revenue-generating products typically become profitable when they have achieved product-market fit and start to grow. If you manage a feature or component, then that’s perfectly fine. Take the Facebook Messenger app for example.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

Guest Post by: Terri Boshoff (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. 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. Start at the Top. About Terri Boshoff.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. But in doing that, our suggestions became far too broad.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Let’s consider the benefits of MVP development : MVPs Allow Businesses to Test Ideas In Markets In 2014, Hailo mobile app for calling a taxi failed. The platform that worked well in London could not survive in the competitive New York market.

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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 Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. How to Build a B2B SaaS Product Development Strategy Using Data.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2018

There are product management conferences that shake things up, and we’ve compiled a list of our top picks. FRONT: CONFERENCE FOR UX AND PRODUCT MANAGERS Front is a conference for designers and product managers that takes place annually in Salt Lake City, Utah. We know many industry conferences can get old.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2018

Launched in 2014, Wriggle provides a masterclass in building on what works, and ruthlessly cutting excess product that doesn’t deliver growth. Product-market mismatches occurred when Wriggle’s platform tried to hit the ground running in London. It was time to expand. London was calling. Well, yes and no.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Aparna Chennapragada, Director of Product Management, Google.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

A lot of information and knowledge comes your way when you’re a new Product Manager. But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?) So let’s dive in.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Josh also held roles leading product management for Zazzle, and product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Aparna Chennapragada, Director of Product Management, Google.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. If a product person isn’t equipped with the ability to sense what might be valuable to others, product management might not be the best career choice in the first place.

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Gainsight

MAY 7, 2019

So we thought we’d pause and take a moment to recognize some influential people in the Product Management community. Learn more about this exciting event for product managers here. SC Moatti, Founder of Products That Count. SC Moatti, Founder of Products That Count. REGISTER NOW.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Creating a sub-brand also meant that if the product never took off, it could be quietly discontinued without harming the parent brand. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. We were growing, able to show user need and demonstrate the product’s potential, so the board agreed to further investment. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

How did you all get to product-market fit ? Rick : I heard a great analogy that when you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. “When you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. What has it been like the second time around?

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain. Rather than scaling prematurely, stay as small as you possibly can until you are getting close to reaching product-market fit. How minimal your product can be depends on its market. 3 Build an MVP.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Those who are looking for a job in tech, whether it be in product management, software engineering, data science, or the like, have undoubtedly considered a career at Google. One of them was our co-founder Stephen Cognetta back in 2014-2015. But, Google still hires thousands and thousands of these candidates every single year.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scalable and faster growth Slack had 8,000 subscribers on the day it launched in 2014. Such rapid success was possible thanks to the product-led growth model. This number nearly doubled in 2 weeks, and it has about 20 million active users in 2023.

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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. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. Believing the best product always wins leads us directly to the second trap: ?being Marketing isn’t a single team.

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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. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. Believing the best product always wins leads us directly to the second trap: ?being Marketing isn’t a single team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

It helps product managers motivate teams to action, impress stakeholders, and quickly derive actionable insights. You can easily see that sales peaked in April 2015 and were lowest in November 2014. Gantt charts Gantt charts are visual project management tools that help you plan, track, and coordinate tasks over time.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Talks from BoS USA 2014. Des Traynor: Product Strategy is About Saying “No” Revisited. Talks from BoS EU 2014. Eric Sink: Product Management.

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