The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Product Management developed organically, as the intersection between engineering and brand management. After all, many paths lead to product!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity. Strategy first, technology second.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

And I’d like to think that product people are among the more open professionals out there: we can be honest about our struggles, face up to our fears, and seek wisdom for our weaknesses. Therefore it’s how we handle it which matters – and we do well to remember that not all conflict is bad. So what are these fears?

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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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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.

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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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. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Gina stepped away from Duolingo at the beginning of 2018 to help non-profits better understand the growth and marketing principles that thrive in today’s tech world. Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more.

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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. During the course of her time there, she’s seen HubSpot grow from a small, plucky startup into a billion dollar household name.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. Why Do Most Startups Fail? No Market Need.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. It was a great experience working in an MNC that functions with the startup mindset. Product Management Journey?—?Developer

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no. The second half?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

Fast-forward 6 years and I have worked on marketing strategy with several startups and small businesses, mostly SaaS businesses, and I have seen them make the same mistakes that had almost folded my business when I was a rookie 23 year-old. And that’s probably why so many startups fail to do their marketing positioning right.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. A friend of mine told me there was a call center job in a tech startup for Dutch speakers, and I just fell in love with the fast-paced, exciting environment. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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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. It’s called ‘the many flavors of agile and what’s the right one for your team?’ Unsubscribe anytime.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2019

Product Talks: Product Tournament, August, 2018. Not only can they schmooz any executive to fund their product initiatives, or convince a potential customer to try out their product, they will sing off any of the hymn-sheets of Eric Ries’ Lean Startup , or Anthony W. Ulwick’s Jobs to be Done when describing what they do at work.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. Obviously, each startup is unique, and the context of a startup matters a lot, but you tend to have the same questions like: “How do I hire general counsel?

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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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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? Part of my journey was 6 startups. My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And even now we set up new companies, we set up a new startup in COVID actually, in lockdown, and we’ve taken that. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

An external and internal ecosystem of customers supporting teams, professional I.T. It meant that the rich customer was funding the poor startup with no issuance of equity, no dilution of ownership, and of the upside rewards available to the investors and the entrepreneurial founders of the business – the cheapest capital imaginable.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I When you are advising teams, how do you make sure they don’t go too far down the rabbit hole? That startup didn’t survive. Ah, the perennial question.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. Companies like Canva, Grammarly, Figma, Notion, and Dropbox are excluded because they are considered B2B SaaS businesses since they have sales teams and sell to both prosumers and enterprises.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Learn the method that Bruce used to focus his team on the few critical things that resulted in the sale of his company for $125 million. I’ve been in product management roles or engineering management or UX or business development or agile enablement. He’ll cover: Why prioritization is important. And there was just no consensus.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

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 ). In fact they decided to broaden the scope of the role by bringing it closer to the team and customers?—?this

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. On the casino side what we developed was a machine which allowed you to play on four roulette wheels simultaneously. People, people in the team. So that was the first great instance of failure that I experienced in my career. How do we do that?

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

I sat down with this self-proclaimed loud mouth to discuss his keynote at DECISIONS 2018 , and Jez kindly agreed to do a brief Q&A so we could pick his brain on the state of things in the world of software delivery. People he encounters will often say, “Hey, have you heard of this lean product development?” It’s 2018!

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. As a result of this experience, I’m often asked what I’d recommend startups do to grow supply in their marketplace. Impact on Airbnb supply growth: Medium.

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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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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As I’m writing this post, 76,942 employees in tech startups have been laid off due to the recession in 2022 alone (according to Layoffs.fyi Tracker). After some epic tech startup fails in the recent months , the VCs clearly stopped believing in the ‘unicorn dreams’. How to Scale Up Business with a Small Team and No Funds.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Don’t think that your scrappy startup isn’t a target.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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. At UX studio, we work with rising startups and established enterprises worldwide. It offers product strategy, design, and development services.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 29, 2020

Many prospective PMs consider business school, internships, side-projects, startup experience, or bootcamps. One of the more well-known product management bootcamps is called Product School and I had the pleasure of attending their Product Management Certificate course in the spring of 2018. What is Product School?

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