Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2016

Author of the new book, Chaos Monkeys, and former product manager at Facebook shares why “working at Facebook at the time was more stressful than being at a startup.” How Marriott is testing new service ideas and changing customer experience for the better – with an innovation lab hotel. Read more at [link]. 3) Just get on with it. (4)

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Andrew Chen

JULY 19, 2017

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. Some providers, such as Microsoft, have started providing their services free to startups, in the hope of turning them into paying customers as they grow. Instead, startups are raising more capital and burning more capital to get to their Series As. AWS instead of your own datacenter.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. We can actually test our designs. Assumption Tests Help Us Discover the Right Solutions This is where our second small research activity is going to come into play. I think that was in 2004.

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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. The role that started me on this path was joining a very small startup a little over a decade ago, Climate Corp.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Hide, ignore, and automate Slack 😑 Unfair: In my experience, PMs get tagged on Slack far more than any other role in a startup. (OK, This has been my ironclad rule since 2016, at three hypergrowth companies, while PMing multiple teams at once. Whoever gets over the awkwardness will have a huge productivity advantage.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception. Enable people to make a difference.

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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. According to a Forrester Research report, integrating UX Research into the product development process can result in up to a 400% increase in conversion rates Forrester Research, 2016.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

A larger ecosystem of these big players sooner or later becomes a threat for the product-led-growth startups. Microsoft launched Team in 2016 and took over many customers of Slack, and currently has almost twice as many daily active users as Slack. Slack has a strong presence in the startups’ ecosystem as a single collaboration app.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

I have a long history of working in miscellaneous startups, either in the creative space or in the recruitment space. Playbook came out in 2016, after many years of us watching this evolution. You materialize those ideas through user tests, and finally you launch your thing. That sounds like a really interesting comparison.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This interview happened in 2016 or 2017. For example, if I see that this opportunity comes up more often for designers at startups, then I can focus my recruitment efforts on that segment. They also allow me to later organize opportunities and insights by different segments if I need to. That’s the magic of a memorable quote.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. But like so many other startups today, when they wanted to press the startup accelerator pedal down hard, they too looked to start building out a sales function.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 31, 2017

This was the first crucial leg of digital transformation, the “Cloud” platform that allows for rapid prototyping, quick roll out (for testing), and the ability to scale as needed without capital expenditure. Agile development and Lean Startup. They are also a credible player).

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Advocated by people like Alberto Savoia in Pretotyping and Eric Ries in The Lean Startup , these are good methods to test if something is valuable fast, and it is a product management skill you should learn. Pretend it’s Real. Pretending that a feature exists is a great way to get validation. 2]: Weingarten, E., McAdams, M.,

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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. Be sure to get specific.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

Even though the interdependency part would mean greater requirement of precise testing since every building blocks are expected to have different behaviour. Scope of Team Responsibility On the early phase of startup, usually one team would be in charge on end-to-end process. If your company still have manual testing method.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts. We had to stop all our tests indefinitely until we could release more capacity in our factory. Having more ideas does not mean having more success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Historically, Slack relied heavily on virality for its growth. They had occasional advertising here and there.

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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? This idea was prime for testing. Someone picked up The Lean Startup , had their mind blown, and said “We should do that here!” What a novel idea!

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company’s core services include software and mobile development, blockchain solutions, testing, and quality assurance. The top projects worth mentioning are OTP bank mobile application testing, Microsoft Sharepoint benchmarking tool development, and mobile application creation for Starbucks Russia. UX studio. .

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 13, 2020

I also ensure that the team has evolutions ready to work on (design, specs and tests) and I work to understand the causes of bugs so that we can avoid them going forward. Other studies I’ve found helpful include an education programme in Paris – Lion by The Family (an accelerator of startups). My Career Experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Since the establishment, this team has shipped more than 700 successful projects for businesses of all sizes, including startups, SMEs, medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises. Moreover, the team provides the best design talent to create world-class digital products for businesses of different sizes, from startups to large enterprises.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

As a lifecycle specialist in B2B growth, youll drive the strategies that accelerate time to value and expansion, rigorously test them, and scale what works. Experimentation expertise: comfortable designing, running, and interpreting A/B and multivariate tests. At Notion, they want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

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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. They also design and report on A/B tests as well as conduct ad-hoc analyses to investigate certain user behavior.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

It enables organizations to concentrate on application development, testing, deployment, and management. In 2016, FINRA decided to audit trading practices, including quotations, trade events, stocks, and equity securities. FINRA In the United States, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a private organization.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. BASE FOOD officially launched in April of 2016 in Japan and became Amazon Japan’s top seller of the year in the food category for 2017. How BASE FOOD is adjusting to the new market.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Let’s test our assumptions. Then I would say the third piece is tied to, to identify a good solution, we really need to rapidly test our assumptions , and there’s some tooling involved with that. How do we get our teams access to the right tools to quickly test assumptions? The Lean Startup. You know what?

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Hint: it starts with user feedback.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 6, 2019

From internship to startup. Before btrax Japan opened, a few eager Japanese entrepreneurs and students joined btrax in San Francisco to gain experience working for a startup in Silicon Valley. btrax has organized multiple startup events since 2010 including Japan Night and Asian Night to foster entrepreneurs from overseas.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

In these cases, the bank builds a test environment and populates it with the data necessary for the function. German fintech startup N26 Agile software development is all the rage in banking these days, and almost all banks now describe their IT development approach as using Agile. This year we are planning 41,000 modifications.”

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Adam: We had you back on in August 2016, so what have you been up to in the last year and a half? We worked with organizations of all descriptions from the earliest startups to multinational foundations and giant corporations. I’ve seen this in usability tests watching people use search. I call that the dog park test.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In 2016, Brad Frost introduced atomic design: a new approach to designing systems in which all interfaces can be broken down into small, modular building blocks that can be reused and recombined. It could be a snippet from a call to customer support, a user interview, or a usability test. Searching for the right UX agency?

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Product Club

MAY 20, 2016

On the one hand, methodologies like lean startup and agile push us to regularly fit our product to the real world. By regularly running tests, validating demand, and shipping in small iterations, we can keep an up-to-date map of our product’s environment.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Lean Startup: Eric Ries [9:49]. The Lean Startup. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days. Productized 2016 – Lisbon, Portugal. The Lean Startup encouraged us to ask, “Does anyone want our solution?” Show Notes: Introduction [:26]. Modern Product Discovery [:54].

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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. A/B testing smoothes decision making, as do all the real-time user data that we get from past implementations. I work with the Digital Ventures arm of Viacom18, one of India’s media powerhouses.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Furthermore, if you are a new startup, you can go after hyperlocal markets where your competitors are weak, and build a local network effect that will be hard to dislodge. Optimization : A/B testing growth levers – from email/SMS/push copy – to when/how to reach out. Add new products and price points.

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