Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. It’s the foundation of our product strategy.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine you would like to design a new mobile app interface in Berlin. We are ready to help you with any design and research challenges you might have. . As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. Phoenix Design.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Tom Adeyoola (Founder, Metail) – Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact from Business of Software Conference. Tom Adeyoola, Founder/CEO, Metail.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Birst BI

MAY 29, 2018

These adoption rates include all the users of the BI system – administrators who manage the system, analysts who build reports, and business users who consume reports for better decision making. This underutilization ignores employees outside the BI system who could be using valuable data to make better decisions.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

He reveals where your funnel has failed in the past and key strategies to improve it for the future. And over the next 10 to 12 minutes, I’m going to talk about how you in the mobile teams around the world can really fix a big problem around what we think of is the feedback funnel. Transcript.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. One of the biggest shifts that Meghan has made is to the way her team is organized. Source: HubSpot Research, State of Inbound 2018.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is wanting more that pushes humanity to seek improvements, develop new technologies, and reach for a higher level." The users themselves, if they can, may build new solutions: the DIY types. As part of the product strategy, plan for trials, refunds, and discounts. We live in our heads, don’t we?

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Be it re-inventing the wheel or trying out new stuff, but without solid foundations, direction and strategy. “Oh,

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. The app sat on a vast worldwide network of smaller networks, each one representing cities and countries.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

I teach teams that business outcomes are derived from your business model. My business model formula looked something like this: # of teams in my coaching program x price per team. Increasing the number of teams that I coach would increase both revenue and impact. I can only work with so many teams at once.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. You have a background in chemical engineering. And you know what?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. To start, let’s ask: what is a tool?

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In 2018, based on a new set of observations, we decided to update one of the core concepts of inbound marketing. While most companies like to say they are “customer-first”, our research found that only 12% of consumers actually believe a business that says it “puts the customer first.” Why invest in these proactive solutions?

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Mind the Product

JULY 19, 2018

We know that we don’t know everything, and that lets us ask the right questions and connect the dots within our teams. Taking Care of Your Team. Serial author and Stanford lecturer Christina Wodtke started the morning session with an inspiring look at team dynamics, and encouraged us to actively manage our team culture.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Be it re-inventing the wheel or trying out new stuff, but without solid foundations, direction and strategy. “Oh,

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

After all, when you know exactly what metrics are growing, what market leaders are betting on, how and what budgets are spent, what marketing solutions are chosen, what practices should be implemented and what to focus on in the near future, life becomes better. We hope this material will help you feel more confident in the coming year.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

After this talk, you’ll understand how the ‘jobs-to-be-done’ theory helps SaaS companies create effective positioning — and a proven, step-by-step process for uncovering your best customers’ ‘job-to-be-done’ Video, Slides, and Transcript below. Upcoming Events. BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

And I’m a writer of a newsletter called Tech Bound, in which I hone in on marketing strategies and customer acquisition. And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. They usually have a freemium strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2020

You’re leaving cash on the table for your competitors to sweep up if you don’t have a strategy for retention marketing. So, in this blog we’ll show you how to keep your customers happy with a targeted retention strategy. You’re signing up new users for your SaaS product every day. Congratulations! Source: Guy Nirpaz, Totango.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. State of Product is the biggest presentation you’ll ever prepare for and its aim is to define and communicate strategy for the coming year. Product Strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In this fast-paced talk from BoS USA 2018, jobs-to-be-done expert and lifelong innovator Bob Moesta helps give you the skills to make all your innovation outcomes more predictable, and successful. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Unsubscribe anytime.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Her Social Media scheduling SaaS MeetEdgar is proudly bootstrapped in a market that has some very well-funded competitors – Hootsuite alone has taken nearly $300 million in funding. In this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, she explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. Transcript.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Her Social Media scheduling SaaS MeetEdgar is proudly bootstrapped in a market that has some very well-funded competitors – Hootsuite alone has taken nearly $300 million in funding. In this talk from Business of Software Conference Europe 2018, she explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. Transcript.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2020

Most marketing talk, or business strategy meetings, emphasizes the importance of ‘customer first’. In this BoS Talk you will learn: How to conduct qualitative research to tap into the customer voice more effectively. How to pair quantitative and qualitative research for a more global understanding of the customer journey.

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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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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2018

When you are working with dates, it is best to have some sort of release plan where you work with the marketing team to release the product once it is tested. PRODUCT STRATEGY DOCUMENT This document lays out a high-level strategic vision of how it plans to achieve the company’s mission. That encompassed our initial strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

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