The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

To help you in your first 90 days on the job, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the best product management resources. The collection includes our favorite conferences, podcasts, blogs, books, newsletters, courses, and Slack groups for product managers. What does product management include?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you’re just dealing with tough market conditions, the situation is different but the conclusion is quite similar: When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. What had changed?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

As their managers, we always need to coach our product managers toward their next level. Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash I was a manager long before I was a product manager. In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our first track, Planning Your Route from PM to Product Leader, is all about helping you fast track career success. You’ll hear from the best leaders in Product Management. Slack lives on the phones and desktops of over 10 million users, and we’re lucky to be joined by Ilan Frank , their VP of Product.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. Instead, it is all about risk management.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Interested in having me speak or attend an event?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Here are three things that if you include in your product requirements would make your life easier and help your developers deliver on what you really intended, not on what you told them to build. I didn’t call him that at the time, but he taught me so much and helped me shape my leadership style and principles.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Going through these iterations is what I do when I work with founders personally or through the new product-market fit masterclass. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy. Unlike what most people think, the product strategy isn’t the strategy of the product department. That’s about strategy in general.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Gartner predicts that by 2021, 75% of software providers will rely on insights from embedded software usage analytics to inform product management decisions and measure customer health (Predicts 2018: Technology Go-to-Market). Enabling feature level consumption pricing. vs. 55.3%).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. On average, a product launch manager earns around $138,000.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Thinking like a product leader takes years to do well, and your stakeholders simply don’t have that experience. Letting them debate product requirements with you as if they were product managers will never work (we’ll see in a minute what will). You are the product leader for a reason, don’t let others do your job.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Come and join the BoS Community as we talk through each other’s product problems and Bruce McCarthy – our Product Guru – provides wisdom and food for thought as we crunch through your product questions. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Someone (engineering, BI, product analysts, or product managers) would need to know how to calculate the number that tells you the current metric value. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Are Your Product Metrics Well Defined? we are measuring retention).

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2021

And that’s because of the Product Adoption Curve. The Product Adoption Curve shows how a product is adopted through multiple segments of the market. Understanding this lets you craft a product marketing strategy for every stage of product adoption. What is the Product Adoption Curve?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

whether you are a startup on its way to product-market fit or already in the growth stage. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on June 8, 2021.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on September 1, 2021. Are you ready to make this your new year’s resolution? Happy new year!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Your job as a product leader is not only to build a product that your customers love and would answer their needs, it is to build a product that would be successful in terms of the business , and to do that you must fully understand what your customers need to go through before they buy your product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 13, 2021.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A few user persona examples in the SaaS space include product managers, product marketers, customer success managers, UX designers, and independent contractors who help companies with any of the aforementioned areas. Thought leadership guest posting. Video marketing (YouTube and TikTok). Newsletters.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers. I always think there’s a couple different products, right? But notice those times we’ll come back and like, honestly, I think probably not in 2021.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

BOLD Program Whereas engineering students have the STEP internship program, those studying business, marketing, or sales have the BOLD program. BOLD stands for Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development. APM Program The last internship program at Google is the Associate Product Marketing Manager (APM) program.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

Product management is such a busy job. The hectic day-to-day in itself contains more work than one can do, but we all know that real product work requires much more than that. Photo by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash I recently started to work with the product guild at a well-known company that is about to go public.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2021

Taking risks is an inherent part of product leadership. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels When I was VP Product at Twiggle, we had a management off-site with some outdoor activities. When it comes to taking risks, you must understand the natural tendency of each and every one of your product managers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an When looking for the next one, how can you tell if it’s right? And what if there is another, better one, just around the corner?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. I’m having to manage upwards to get the support to take the team on the journey towards accelerated product strategizing but I am creating enemies. I got this message as part of a Facebook discussion on the role of the product leader. I am burning out.”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

the product leader?—?to My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on May 3, 2021. And it is up to you?—?the to provide it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 27, 2021

Make sure you meet the market as quickly as possible, using this simple and quick method. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on June 23, 2021.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 2, 2022

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on December 29, 2021. Hey, we never said it was easy, but that’s all the fun, isn’t it?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2021

This is one of the insights that the CPO Bootcamp participants get as part of the data-driven product leadership module. It can be a colleague, a team member, a friend, or in some cases your manager. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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