People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

Subscribe now People should matter more than the location I’ve been working remotely since 2014. We were a team due to a shared mission, vision, strategy and goals - not because of where we physically sat. When I moved from London to the Bay Area all my colleagues were on the East Coast or overseas.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

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. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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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.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 12, 2020

But, which app has the best product roadmap ? Which app has the best overall vision? Roposo was launched in 2014 and has seen a steady growth in popularity since then. This app has also been around since 2014. One can clearly tell which teams have the right product management skills. Only time will tell.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2021

Margaret Zablocka is a founder and CEO of Onoco – a parenting app with 20,000 users – and the former Lead Product Manager at Betfair. Born in Poland, she moved to London in 2014 to embark on her career in Product Management. Different companies call “product manager” different things.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Shipping product to real users. Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

are somehow related to the lack of a common project goal and vision. You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). 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.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2020

Once you’ve created a vision of what calls to you, then you need to clarify by asking “Why do I want to be a part of it?”. Mind The Product’s community, exclusively for product people, has grown hugely over the last 10 years. Mind the Product is the world’s largest community of passionate product people.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. 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.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2014, data predicted that less than 0.01% of mobile apps would be considered a financial success by 2018. Be wary of any app development agency that promises your dream product with little to no prior discussion. Related Reading: 10 Skills Every Mobile Product Manager Needs. Schedule out a development timeline.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 29, 2023

I was pondering this question as I read a post of Teresa’s from 2014 which was shared in the community newsletter this past week. The Simplest (and Most Important) Question You Face as a Product Leader Even though the answer is not 42, it’s fun to guess the question.

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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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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

The SVPG insights blog is great for product managers looking to stay up-to-date with the industry and advance their skills. The Product Management blog is perfect for individuals looking to start a career in product management and development. Product management. The Product Management Blog.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Something that relates directly to your company’s vision. I want you to do it because I think we (the collective high-tech community) should be putting out “better” products. When I first joined Apple Maps in November 2014, I was handed the feature list for the year. Why would you want to do that?

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When working with clients, they follow a tried-and-true method, combining UX and web design expertise with innovative product strategy. This focuses on collaboration, shared vision, empowering product leaders, and continuous optimization, ensuring project success at every stage of the product lifecycle.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I did an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on product management on NextBigWhat a couple of months ago. There were a bunch of questions I was asked about product management. What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C? What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

The team consists of experts in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation. The packages include short one-week sprints for defining visions and validating them with quick prototyping and longer packages for research services, branding, or design maturity audits.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

My AMA on NextBigWhat I did an AMA (AskMeAnything) on product management on NextBigWhat a couple of months ago. There were a bunch of questions I was asked about product management. What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C? How did you get into product management?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

If you go back to 2014, when we were building that part of our product, it was kind of the Wild West back then as far as browser extensions go. Our product vision is, “The knowledge you need to do your job should find you when you need it.” That’s problem one. Rick : Yes, absolutely.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle? In 2014, David J Bland introduced this eye-opening concept in a tweet.

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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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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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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. The story that Des and Eoghan helped shape – this narrative around our product – gave us a ton of breathing room.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. The vision? This month, we have passed the three million download mark for the show.

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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. The story that Des and Eoghan helped shape – this narrative around our product – gave us a ton of breathing room.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The team grows, roles shift, output increases, and many other pivotal changes happen within the product team and the organization as a whole. At the same time, rapid growth can present some challenges for product management. These are all valid questions for product people at high-growth organizations.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

As the product manager, I shifted my mindset from an “in-office” focus to a remote focus. Shared understanding is achieved with a common vision and actual communication. Team Performance Management. Our lead developer was remote as well as our UX designer. This was a critical component in one of the studies cited above.

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 8, 2017

Laura Klein spoke at the Lean Startup Conference about identifying risky assumptions and her talk was published in Dec 2014. Laura identifies that every product has at least three different classes of assumptions. We were working to develop what Harry Max calls the theory of our product. Identifying Risky Assumptions.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. It started as a bold vision to change the way the web is built by democratizing user data and feedback. And more recently, maybe just over a year ago, I started slowly moving to product. I was just focusing on building the team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2022

which is Tim Berners Lee’s vision of a linked or semantic web. vision includes a large component called the “semantic web,” which Tim Berners-Lee proposed, who is the inventor of the World Wide Web. Web3 is a generic term that describes the vision for a better internet. Web3 and Web 3.0 are fundamentally different. What’s Web3?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

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. Again, that’s something I would have thought in 2014 was happening imminently. But it exists now.

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