Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 25, 2017

Tips for conducting consumer and market research for new products. Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. You have to identify the right target segment, understand a real problem they have, and learn what action to take. What would you add?

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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

APRIL 18, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017).

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. In fact, the 2017 learning objectives for their Certified Scrum Product Owner Certification by Scrum Alliance states, "Teach that the role of the Product Owner is typically played by the customer, or customer representative, such as a product manager."

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freshtrax

JULY 16, 2019

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Market Capitalization. SanBio Ltd.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

The global online dating market was valued at $6,400.0 million in 2017, and is projected to reach $9,202 million by 2025 , growing at a CAGR of 4.7% It’s a huge and fast-growing market and this factor is probably responsible for the gigantic amount of companies that arise in this segment year after year. from 2018 to 2025.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the company operates the JobStreet and JobsDB brands helping hundreds of millions of job seekers in seven markets across Asia to find employment and pursue their passion. He is a published O’Reilly Media author with two titles: Design Sprint (2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (2017).

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Mind the Product

MAY 11, 2020

However, we do have a small but vibrant product community, mostly comprising by startup founders, UX and Agile practitioners, digital product and digital marketing team members of big conglomerates and local firms etc. What is product management? by Rebecca Watkin, Senior Product Manager at World First.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

Most notably he led growth strategy at Creative Market (a global marketplace for design content that was acquired by Autodesk) and Hired.com. Dribbble was bootstrapped for nearly a decade before being acquired in early 2017, when Zack joined, and it was already profitable too. There’s never been a focus on marketing or growth.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Better yet, since 2017, if a better match becomes available after you book a ride, Uber will automatically swap your trip, a feature internally branded as Trip Swap. In reality, fungibility is not black and white, and whether a supplier is interchangeable with another can depend hugely on market expectations. But I’m just a startup!

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done. Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As Intercom’s business grew rapidly in 2017, we found ourselves at this exact crossroads. For a growing business, segmentation is necessary to know your customers and your market, and share this understanding across teams. Informing our approach to the market. Beyond a certain size, it’s impossible to do without.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

In 2017, she and her team launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning 26 different design awards. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. More speakers to come!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. 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.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In this incredible talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Jake Knapp shared how he developed the Design Sprint, and how to do them well. Marketing was considered right at the end of the development cycle and asked to sell the “great” idea once all the investment had already been made. The Genesis. Design Sprints are Born.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For every company that’s executing the freemium model successfully, there are hundreds more that struggle and the tension it can create between sales, marketing, and product teams. Kristen joined Atlassian when it acquired Trello in 2017, where she is now Global Head of EDR Sales. Aligning sales, marketing, and product teams.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

New beauty brands have shown up in the market being driven by millennial buyers who buy more cosmetics and skin care than any other demographic. These brands have seen huge growth over the past few years, grabbing market share from the big, established names. billion in 2017. part of a company purchased by Estée Lauder in 2017.

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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.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 26, 2017

One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. The end of the cycle. For example, following the core internet boom of the late 90s (Google, Yahoo!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. In the evolution of a startup, the founders initially do whatever they can themselves. considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. venture capital investments, 1995–2017: [link] The burst of the bubble (also known as the dot-com crash ), took place in the early 2000s and was a critical turning point for the technology industry. Quarterly U.S. The period was also known for unsuccessful acquisitions.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. 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.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? Content marketing. The origin of the Michelin Guide and why content marketing still works. The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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Amplitude

MARCH 1, 2018

Startup founders and product leaders are building the future. Building startups is hard and getting harder. Finding Product Market Fit. The most important goal at the seed stage of a company is to find product market fit. We hope that this helps developers and seed stage startups build better products in 2018.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. When you have a market that’s so big, where do you start?

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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. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That just blows my mind.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

A growing profession A study done by Neal Ilyer found that the number of Product Management roles in the US grew by an astounding 32% between August 2017 to June 2019. This has created a new market for skilled product professionals to help companies make this shift. This is a monumental shift. But, Why Coaching?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2017, she started working as a product lead at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, building their infectious disease program and IDseq, an open-source online platform to spot movement of diseases across borders, the emergence of new illnesses, or the spread of drug-resistant strains. The rush of a startup. Liam: For sure.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 8, 2019

This rapid growth hasn’t been achieved by paid marketing; product evangelism has been the biggest driver of growth. The benefits and challenges of NPS have been well-explored; if you’re interested in reading more Todd Olson wrote a great blog about this in 2017.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

In worst case failed product-market-fit could lead to system deprecation, so that Monolithic architecture are the better thing to build. Meanwhile product that already achieved product-market-fit and has a significant number of loyal customers who keep coming back to use our product would be better off with microservices architecture.

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The Product Bistro

MARCH 3, 2018

Primarily a software related issue (although there are architecture transitions in hardware that are thorny too), the point when an old architecture is holding you back, and market forces are driving the discussion in your market space, a clean rewrite is what is required. But, time marches on, technology and demographics change.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. DelightedMariko.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

No one else in the team is concerned or expected to know about the legal constraints, privacy risks, and market conditions that affect your product. Startups have no reputation, history, or customers so are able to focus solely on value creation. You can see her seminal Mind the Product session on this topic from 2017 here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. Michael: Most people listening probably think of HubSpot as this inbound marketing company. We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In January 2017 ProductTank NYC in collaboration with nexTier Innovations and Lifion by ADP, held a special event which included a Design Disruptors film screening and a guest panel discussion about the film and the current state of the product design industry. Eric Menzie , Head of Product for the WFS Markets Salesforce CRM at Wells Fargo.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

2017 Product Conferences. My talk at Front 2017. What this means is that this company, Arity, sometimes acts like a startup because they’re a small company that’s being protected to go and do their own thing. There were concerns from their marketing team, “Is it going to hurt our brand? Full Transcript.

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