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.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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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. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant.

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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. What did we Learn?

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UX Planet

JUNE 1, 2025

The Evolution of the AARRR Framework The AARRR framework was initially conceived as a methodology for startups to organize and prioritize their growthefforts. Over time, it has evolved from a simple set of metrics into a comprehensive system for understanding user behavior at each stage of the product journey PostHog,2023.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

After her work on the Creative Cloud, Lea went on to manage the consumer business at Adobe where she had responsibility for all marketing, product, and engineering. After Adobe, Lea led product at InVision, a startup focused on design collaboration where she built and designed best practices for the product team.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. 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. What’s not to like?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

So I want to share my take when to suggest for monolithic and when to suggest for microservices from several aspects: Product Phases When our product are still on proof of concept / MVP phase, I strongly suggest to use monolithic architecture , since there is no guarantee that the product would be used often.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

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. While certainly not a product category most of us operate it, it showcases the kind of inspirational feeling a successful product walkthrough leaves your audience with.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? has become a battle cry in product development that just means make it minimal, make it cheap, and make it fast. This makes so much sense.”

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Notion has been working on this together since 2016, and has customers like OpenAI, Toyota, Figma, Ramp, and thousands more on this journey with us. They are a great fit for the positions above and for your company, especially when the position is connected to Product-Led Growth.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Screenshot from Sean’s presentation at Saastr 2016 Old Age Growth: Great in the short-term, destructive in the long-term In the early stages of a startup, a Growth team might net valuable wins by finding things that are genuinely broken, missing or misunderstood in a flow.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Previously, Fraser was Director of Innovation and Transformation at Pivotal and she has founded and served as CEO for several startups, including Luxr, an early Lean Startup firm, and Adaptive Path, the world’s first User Experience firm. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

Previously, Fraser was Director of Innovation and Transformation at Pivotal and she has founded and served as CEO for several startups, including Luxr, an early Lean Startup firm, and Adaptive Path, the world’s first User Experience firm. Dave Wascha, CPO Photobox.

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Product Club

MAY 20, 2016

Every day the Product Manager Club brings you the best product management, product marketing and product design reads from across the web. I can’t write words that sum up how well Dan Schmidt writes words about product, which is hard to define with words. We hope you enjoy!

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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 million apiece. Tim noticed a problem with calendars , which is that they usually function like email.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

He spent 10 years at Google, where he created the Design Sprint process, and he has worked with over 100 startups including Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Uber. His writing on startups and productivity has appeared in Fast Company, TechCrunch, Slate, and LifeHacker. Jake is currently among the world’s tallest designers.

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First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Here, Moore shares the lessons he's learned along the way, from weathering bear markets and losing out to the competition, to finding (and falling out of) product/market fit. Since he cut his teeth as a first-time founder in turbulent times, he's gone on to build two other companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey. How did you all get to product-market fit ? “When you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert.

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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. What is your background?

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

This post is an overview of the first two years (2014 - 2016) of the product where I was involved. The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. Starting with product puts the cart before the horse.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Video: The Art of Product Management. In 2016, my alma mater, Wharton, asked me to come back and give a talk on product management as the role had ballooned in interest amongst the MBA class. A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. — The Rectangles (@therectangles) October 13, 2016. The Rectangles is a digital design company that is innovative in many ways.

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Pragmatic Marketing

APRIL 3, 2018

This model is growing fast: global revenue in the SaaS industry topped $43 billion by mid-2017, up 23 percent from 2016. Along with this rapid adoption comes a need for product managers and product marketers to re-imagine their roles. Customer churn is a big deal in the subscription-based revenue model of SaaS.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 11, 2021

Viacom18 proactively forayed into the OTT business in late 2015 and went live with Voot—our mobile-first video-on-demand platform—in mid-2016. Startups or businesses that are trying to become data-led often track too much off the bat and wind up with a lot of data that’s not actionable.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

Read on below to find great talks about: Optimising for Product-Market Fit. Last time: At #BoS2018, the founder of Silicon Valley’s buzziest startup spoke about how he adopted and adapted Sean Ellis’ product-market fit survey at Superhuman. Why competitive advantage doesn’t mean what it used to.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

original: producttribe.com Stage 1: Establishing Product/Market Fit The most important thing you need to remember is that you should only work on a product that you’re sure people really need. At Stage 1, customer interviews should help define your product/market fit.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. Apart from working with established brands and startups, we assess the expertise of various companies and create our independent rating list of trustworthy design companies. Our client portfolio is rich and diverse.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 17, 2021

By reducing upfront costs, you’ll be able to cater to both startups and enterprise clients since your pricing model scales with their usage. In fact, a 2016 study showed that more than a third of providers use this pricing model so it’s clearly favored by many SaaS companies. Pros of usage-based pricing. Affordability.

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

Mistake #2: On the other hand … not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” – every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. To run a startup, you have to make bets. Teammates and clients will leave.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. — The Rectangles (@therectangles) October 13, 2016. The Rectangles is a digital design company that is innovative in many ways.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It’s also worth prioritizing entirely new product ideas. Critically the whole lean startup movement is about testing your assumptions right. Some people may say lean startup or agile means we don’t need a roadmap, we don’t need a priority list we just start somewhere and we just go.

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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

JULY 14, 2020

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. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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