Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fewer than 10% of startups survive and grow into large companies and, for every time growth is done right, there are 100 ways it could have been done wrong. Here, I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned from my years working as a product manager, focused on growth. As a young startup, we celebrated this milestone.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups. As a product leader and team builder, Nicholas is a seasoned technology executive, and an industry expert with extensive experience in platform from mobility to location services to music and media. Lucie McLean has been making digital products at the BBC for 12 years.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

While it’s a simple question, it can help illuminate how set (or open) the high-level roadmap is, give insight into a company’s unique take, and illuminate the clarity of thought (or lack thereof) in a product strategy. What is the most contentious feature the product team currently debates building?

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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? At the time, back in 2014, this was so much easier than having to navigate around using Google Maps.

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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). Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus. Melissa Perri is a Product Manager, UX Designer, and speaker based in New York City. Janice Fraser, SVP, Bionic.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers. This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

Once the product is released, we help you set up measuring systems, monitor the performance of your product, and work on the next steps and new strategies together. London-based strategic digital product and service design consultancy with over twenty years of experience. Super User Studio.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

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. The challenge for product managers is ensuring that your product evolves to meet the needs of your new customers without leaving long-term, smaller customers behind. Well, it’s hard.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. How has that transition been for you, going from the giant company that is Google back to the early-stage startup that is Coda? Tell me, though, what’s the underlying product strategy at play here?

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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. Here’s Rachel. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Nilan Peiris: Building A High-Growth Startup Sustainably. Eric Ries: The Startup Way. Jon Reynolds: Riding the Swiftkey Rocket Ship from Startup to Acquisition. Why My Second Startup is Different.

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 8, 2017

When it comes to developing a product strategy – or even making decisions about how best to create a product, one of these assumptions is likely to be what causes us to fail. Every strategy, every product idea, every design approach, and every planned implementation is built upon a pile of assumptions.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 21, 2017

They’re a startup success story that you don’t hear too often. Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. This early-access list launched in July of 2014 and by August we already had close to 20,000 emails. Early on, before we actually worked at Hotjar, all the founders were makers.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 19, 2020

And then I jumped into the startup fray because I’m just a glutton for punishment. And in the 2014 version there was only like 400 companies on it. But the basic point here is that software is just you know exploding because it’s easier and easier quote unquote to build a product hard to build a great product still.

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