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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016). When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers.

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Saas Startups: An Upward Trend Booming in The Future

The Product Coalition

The reasons why Saas startups are recently making a huge wave to become the next trillion-dollar industry. Over the past years, investment in SaaS startups has been increasing steadily. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. billion since 2015. Explore the upward trends to know more.

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The Testing Mindset – How to Find Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Chaos Report 2015. Prioritize Investments.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

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. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. 2015 – Launch as JustGiving Crowdfunding. This is what we did.

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In Search of a Better way to Measure Product/Market fit

Mind the Product

After benchmarking nearly 100 startups in his customer development survey, Ellis found the magic number to be 40% – that is companies that struggled to find growth almost always had under 40% of users respond “very disappointed”. A positive score on this test strongly indicates product/market fit, but it doesn’t guarantee it.

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The evolution of Ember at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

It’s one of those facts of startup life that is easy to overlook, but the success and growth of companies can be deeply intertwined with the technology they use in their stack, and I’d like to explain how that has been the case with Intercom and Ember. This is a slide from a talk that I gave in 2015.

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When was the Last Time you Talked to Your Customers?

Mind the Product

but how many startups are doing a decent job of tracking their performance? When I was still working for my own startup (Swipe & Shop – Tinder for fashion), I really enjoyed having a personal relationship with our users. It’s a bit like data: you won’t find a single founder who doesn’t say: “Yeah! Customers are Real People.