Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I outline a framework for assessing and prioritizing opportunities. 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. This makes it easy for everyone to follow along.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? From “Unbundling Craiglist” to “Uber for X” – we lay it all out in a single framework. What’s next: The future of Service Marketplaces (2018-?). We answer, emphatically, yes! Hope you enjoy our thinking! -A].

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

from 2018 to 2025. Recently we decided to enter this market in our own company( JoySpot ), so I started studying this market heavily to learn how can a Startup penetrate it and be competitive versus titans like Tinder. If you don’t have time to read the whole article, I recommend you to go straight to the tips for startups in the end.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. After working in marketing for four years in London, Negar moved back to Vancouver in late 2018. When Negar joined the startup, there were only five employees and no product managers.

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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? How chain letters were invented and rethinking its effectiveness in the framework of viral growth. The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 24, 2018

The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. While each company and product is obviously different, this is a framework covering the universal conditions and patterns that have to hold true to achieve product/market fit.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Businesses of all sizesfrom startups to Fortune500 companies recognize that external development teams can drive efficiency, innovation, and strategic focus. Examples in Practice Startups often outsource MVP development to launch quickly. Quality assurance: Manual and automated testing, security audits, compliance checks.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2018

You have to do a lot to answer these questions, and the following framework won’t get you there, but it will put you on the right path and give you some structure as you start to see if your idea is worth your (or your team’s) time. Why do these people need your product? Why are they going to specifically want your product?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

In 2018, Perri published a popular book entitled “ Escaping the Build Trap : How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value ”. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Harvard Business School appointed Perri to teach product management in their MBA program in 2019.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Lean Startup Ok, so this might be new to some digital UX people. The philosophy of Lean Startup is about getting products to market efficiently and cost-effectively, which is especially important for new businesses (startups). The solution proposed by Lean Startup involves a feedback loop called ‘build-measure-learn’.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Dear Strategy: “Do startups or small businesses really have the time to develop formal strategies like you talk about on the show? Using the framework that I developed for Strategy Generation Company as a guide, this typically involves some variation of the 9 steps outlined below: Analysis : Analyze your capabilities and company.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2018

Having a limited view of the world, it’s difficult for teams and organizations to maintain a consistent vision for their world, and it’s vitally important to have communication frameworks and practices in place in order to achieve shared understanding.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 7, 2018

Product Managers are in short supply – named as one of just five key roles in the Startup Talent Gap report released in July 2018 by start-up peak body StartupAUS in collaboration with Microsoft, the University of Technology Sydney and Google – alongside coders, startup-focused sales roles, user experience designers, and data scientists.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2018

We’ll tackle it in a few steps, time permitting, with lots of audience participation: When and how does a startup hire its first product manager? Using repeatable and flexible frameworks, Brainmates helps clients deliver products to market that customers love.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

80 to over 100 hours per week to “change the world” is what Elon Musk wrote in a 2018 tweet, referring to what was considered a standard working week at the time Tesla was ramping up production of its Model 3 sedans. One day might suit smaller teams like startups, but those in larger organisations (or dealing with many strong opinions!)

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have a framework which promotes rapid feedback cycles and adaptation, they created what we know today as Scrum. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) encourages this misconception of a strategic Product Manager role and a tactical Product Owner role.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2018

January 1, 2018 I officially started my role as CEO of my own company, Empire Selling. Right now we’re working with some Fortune 50 companies, all B2B, down to much smaller startups here in New York City. Adam: How was your experience of getting your own startup off the ground while being a leader in a high growth company?

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Indicative

OCTOBER 8, 2020

gamers’ weekly leisure time going to playing games as of 2018 — companies are sitting on treasure troves of insight. When designing frameworks and choosing solutions, keep in mind that your business may evolve over time. Gaming data is one of the most valuable sources of information out there. .

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Being part of a 30-person startup where you are the only product manager is a change in itself. especially if you don’t build a framework that allows decisionmaking and wins/losses to be shared across the team. Let’s say you’re at a startup. Originally published at productsthatcount.com on November 1, 2018. It can be?—?especially

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

To help codify his learnings throughout those experiences and share the most repeatable frameworks, he’s published the High Growth Handbook , available from Stripe Press on Tuesday, July 17. Patrick Collison (@patrickc) July 10, 2018. The only good generic startup advice is that there’s no good generic startup advice.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

And it also goes with this idea that even when you think about different frameworks of agile no process should ever inhibit the ability for a team or a company to be successful. So example three: “I am a newer product manager at a pretty well-established startup. Bethany Pagels-Minor : Good job! To makes you guys feel great.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. They advance the skills of teammates and help provide frameworks and guidance that drive the team forward. I’m a Product Manager at Doximity , the largest online network for clinicians, and a 2018 Fast Company Most Innovative Company.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I’m going to start off with a story and then I’ll give you some frameworks that I used to resolve the difficulties I ran into in my first month as V.P. Critically the whole lean startup movement is about testing your assumptions right. This is from McKinsey this is their 3 Horizons growth framework. You don’t.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, she explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. So I know that it’s possible and I’m here talking to you today to share some tactical strategies that you can use in your startup to compete with such a big company.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. And he was a famous psychologist in the early 1900s and he came up with this framework for thinking about behavioral change. Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Upcoming Events. April Dunford UK Book Launch Tour BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

When I was working for the first time in a pre-market startup back in 2008, we had some team members, trained in academia, who would seek the beautiful, perfect solution, over the pragmatic, good enough ones. That startup didn’t survive. Finally, do you have any new things cooking for late 2018 into 2019? And you know what?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

In this talk from BoS USA 2018 Peldi shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. At #BoS2018, he laid out the framework and explained how they use it. We will never sell your email address.

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The Review by First Round

MARCH 18, 2021

After starting out in the Marine Corps, Russ made his way into the world of startups, joining Google in 2005 where he led teams for 7 years and was recognized as one of the company’s best managers. In today’s conversation, we dig into how startups can drive employee engagement and develop high-quality managers.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, she explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. So I know that it’s possible and I’m here talking to you today to share some tactical strategies that you can use in your startup to compete with such a big company.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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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? How chain letters were invented and rethinking its effectiveness in the framework of viral growth. The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

In June 2018 we plan to release StepShot Guides PRO, a new version of the product with several cool features such as inbuilt process diagram editor, point-and-click UI explain tool, or a possibility to publish a guide to DOC, HTML, and a video format. everyone will find StepShot an efficient solution.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

So I was giving a talk at a tech startup conference and I was very energetic. They create frameworks for like launching software faster, accelerating the speed. And then I did my job. There you go. Uh, my value in the world is great. Uh, and she, you know, somebody like, well, what do you know, what, what’s your value?

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Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

The Mixpanel homepage circa 2018. If that weren’t enough, the codebase, developed externally, was built in languages and frameworks our broader engineering team had no plans to ever support, leaving us in a precarious position if anything ever went wrong. This meant rethinking our WordPress-powered stack. It was time for a change.

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Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

The Mixpanel homepage circa 2018. If that weren’t enough, the codebase, developed externally, was built in languages and frameworks our broader engineering team had no plans to ever support, leaving us in a precarious position if anything ever went wrong. This meant rethinking our WordPress-powered stack. It was time for a change.

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Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

The Mixpanel homepage circa 2018. If that weren’t enough, the codebase, developed externally, was built in languages and frameworks our broader engineering team had no plans to ever support, leaving us in a precarious position if anything ever went wrong. This meant rethinking our WordPress-powered stack. It was time for a change.

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