Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events. 10 Serious Decisions We Made After #SDSummit 2016. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) June 1, 2016.

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Good Product Manager

JUNE 9, 2016

SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit Recap. We had 2500+ sales, marketing and product leaders together for 4 days of sharing of new research, practitioner case studies, lots of networking and some fantastic evening events. 10 Serious Decisions We Made After #SDSummit 2016. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) June 1, 2016.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Switching costs.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2017

In this talk I gave at ProductTank Singapore towards the end of 2016, I parsed the steps required to take a product from conception to delivery, with a strong slant toward the business of products. Rather than focusing on competing against all of the world to attract the world’s customers, find a market that you can win.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Ivy is currently the Vice President of Design for the Hardware Product Area at Google, which was officially formed in 2016. In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. Leadership Forum. More speakers to come!

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events. SiriusDecisions Summit (May 24-27 in Nashville): I mentioned the presentation on The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs above, but that’s just one of the reasons that product management professionals should attend Summit.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 6, 2016

All participants will have the option to receive a summary of the results and it will be a great way to compare how your product team compares. SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit. I’m pleased to announce that for the first time the Summit will feature a Product Leadership Exchange. Jeff Lash (@jefflash) March 1, 2016.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Support from the senior leadership team also shot up. 2016 – Accelerating Growth. The CMO formed a crowdfunding management team, comprised of leads in product, strategy, marketing, and technology. The first sign of hockey stick growth, 2016. JustGiving Crowdfunding homepage, 2015. What did we Learn?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea has deep passion for product and mentoring product teams regardless of where they are in their own transformation, and recently joined Marty Cagan as a Partner in the Silicon Valley Product Group. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun, Author.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2018

Product-market mismatches occurred when Wriggle’s platform tried to hit the ground running in London. Wriggle’s campaign The Better Lunch Project circa 2016. Again, the leadership showed great self-restraint to take the market cues and not bankrupt themselves on London. It was time to expand.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Use your background in developing digital products, encouraging collaboration on growth projects across departments, ensuring product quality, and demonstrating effective leadership to support Firefox’s growth. A product leader ready to take on a challenge to grow a long-standing underdog product.

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Radical Product

APRIL 30, 2020

Instagram, which arrived later, reached the same milestone in 19 months by 2016. In comparison, TicTok (founded in 2016) grew to 500 million users in two years. Take a Systematic Approach to Building Products To build products that take responsibility for users’ well-being, we need to fundamentally change how we build products.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. Product Marketing Community: The Toronto Conference (Friday, April 22): I’m very excited to be a keynote speaker and panelist at this first-ever conference, where I’ll be speaking on “Sorting Out Product Marketing and Product Management” and other product marketing related topics.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. Product Marketing Community: The Toronto Conference (Friday, April 22): I’m very excited to be a keynote speaker and panelist at this first-ever conference, where I’ll be speaking on “Sorting Out Product Marketing and Product Management” and other product marketing related topics.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. So how did they go from product-market fit to actually scaling a sales org around a repeatable sales process?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

Wednesday, February 8 : I’ll be moderating a panel discussion on How To Enable Sales for the San Francisco Product Marketing Meetup. May 16-19 : I’ll be Las Vegas for the SiriusDecisions Summit (one of “ 7 events no product manager should miss this year “). Applying Agile to Marketing.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2017

Wednesday, February 8 : I’ll be moderating a panel discussion on How To Enable Sales for the San Francisco Product Marketing Meetup. May 16-19 : I’ll be Las Vegas for the SiriusDecisions Summit (one of “ 7 events no product manager should miss this year “). Applying Agile to Marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 26, 2021

As we’ve grown from a tiny team when I joined in 2016 to the 160 or so folks we have today, there’s still this incredible empathy, kindness, and desire to lift each other up and see each other succeed.”. We always assume good intent, and we deeply value kindness and empathy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

They’ve also maintained a cost leadership position by making their product accessible through a free version that offers basic features. This has allowed them to capture a significant market share. Focus strategy The focus strategy involves concentrating on a specific market segment or niche.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Jeff and Josh are experienced digital product design leaders, and co-authors of Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience and Sense & Respond, How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2017

In January 2015 Nate was named the Chief Product Officer for Pluralsight, the largest providers of online technology learning, where he built a user centered product team, and in February 2016 Nate’s role expanded to Chief Experience Office to also oversee Development, Content, and Product Marketing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

You have to find a way to leverage your product, make people fall in love with it for themselves, and then work on retaining them as users. What Are the Benefits of a Product-Led Growth Strategy? Or , you could let your product do the talking. Here’s how they do it: Every department focuses on the product. It’s cheaper.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

In January 2015 Nate was named the Chief Product Officer for Pluralsight, the largest providers of online technology learning, where he built a user centered product team, and in February 2016 Nate’s role expanded to Chief Experience Office to also oversee Development, Content, and Product Marketing.

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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. Rick : That shift came about around 2016.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Lea has deep passion for product and mentoring product teams regardless of where they are in their own transformation, and recently joined Marty Cagan as a Partner in the Silicon Valley Product Group. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun Author.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2016

Here are two talks from the Agile Alliance’s 2016 conference in Atlanta: What: Agile2016, July 25 – 29 , Atlanta, GA. Intro to Agile Product Innovation, Weds, July 27th. Product folks often focus the discussion externally: how do we build products that customers and buyers find more innovative?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Kinga Odziemek – CEO of Brainy Bees , content marketing, social media, PR and link building agency for SaaS, tech and B2B companies. Women in Product. According to Mind the Product , as of 2016 (we didn’t find newer data), only 35% of all Product Managers were female.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2021

And that’s because of the Product Adoption Curve. The Product Adoption Curve shows how a product is adopted through multiple segments of the market. Understanding this lets you craft a product marketing strategy for every stage of product adoption. The five stages of the Product Adoption Curve.

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

But what I learned, after years of procrastinating on tough moves for our leadership team, is that the leaders’ teams suffer greatly through that inaction. But this process was also hard: We had to get alignment across Product, Marketing, Sales, CS and PS on what our end-to-end value (from 30K feet to 30 feet).

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And having established this you at that point can you at that point you’ve essentially hopefully reached a minimum level of product market fit and you can move into a growth phase. That’s really how you know you’ve reached product market fit is your product begins to grow and not every sale is a heroic effort.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “product-market fit” that is the manna from heaven to a modern corp.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Use the #podcast channel in the Mind the Product Slack community.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Use the #podcast channel in the Mind the Product Slack community.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

My continuing leadership in the field. As part of that, as folks search for important concepts like “product market fit” and “user growth” – my essays are often on the front page. In 2016, the star rating on Uber’s rider app was low. As a result, it’s split into three sections: About me and my superpower.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

That’s why we started at the end of ‘14 and we didn’t launch our product commercially until April of 2016. It has a lot around servant leadership about focus on the customer and what have you. And by the fifth time you’re certifiable at this point. Like starting businesses cause when you go through it is.

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