Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 11, 2024

While at Google, Sam helped lead many of Google’s consumer products, including Gmail, Blogger, PageCreator, Picasa, Reader, Groups, and more recently Maps and Google Automotive Services. Sam was also a principal investor at Google Ventures, has founded six startups, and was the SVP of engineering at Box through their IPO.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

First, figure out if you’re at product-market fit (PMF) You’re at PMF if customers are banging at your door. If your customers pull your product so hard that you can’t catch up with demand. 2023 just started. Your role is to make other people in the team focus to execute. Or the other way around.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits. Many startups fall into this category. Many blue-ocean startups start here.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash As a proud member of the startup nation, startups are all around me. Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. It’s no wonder there are many tools that try to resolve this. Here’s why.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. Will 2024 be better or worse than 2023? You need to understand the financials of your company very clearly (product leaders — this is your responsibility even if you are not founders!)

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2024

This is especially true for startups and new products. Focus and being able to find a niche can be a huge unlock for products. The ABC News App today (2023) This resulted in not only a far better experience but also increased adoption by 6% that year (of memory) and engagement.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. For example, your title can be Senior Product Manager but you are actually required to do product leadership much more than product management (for example if you are the only product person in a startup).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Level 3: Deciding What to Draw When I joined Twiggle — a seed stage startup — as the VP of Product, I thought I was extremely ready. I already led a large product group at eBay and knew I would manage a much smaller one at Twiggle so this was also a no-brainer. And they go far beyond the product itself.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

They also largely sell their products online, and lean heavily on both social media and influencers for marketing, where many of their millennial customers turn for guidance on products. At stake is a share of the global cosmetics-products market, which is expected to reach US$805.61 billion in 2017.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I mentioned here a sales deck that the company gives its salespeople, but in many startups, salespeople are expected to create their own decks, at least initially. Because this deck that sells your product should be a manifestation of your product strategy , and if you don’t have a good one, your salespeople cannot do their job.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

A generic segmentation like “startups of 50–100 people” is not good enough for two reasons. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on July 27, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

It’s Not About the Plumbing When we work with startups it’s usually a long-term relationship. We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Which roles exist in product management teams? The same could be said of product teams.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Pricing, packaging and anchoring As many product marketeers know, anchoring plays a big part in how the value of a product is perceived. For SaaS products at least, pricing tables are the predominant way of presenting your product’s value and pricing back to users before they buy. A few things done well.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Checkout extensibility will probably bump this even higher in Q1 2023. At first, like many organizations trying to target higher value customers with more complex requirements, it was difficult to develop a product and approach that met their needs but there was clearly a market that was worth pursuing. From ~14,000 to ~27,000.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! We will have to admit AI is here to stay.

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They’ve infused some incredibly satisfying sound effects into their product design and you can check it out here. Other products worth checking out this week include a new customer support startup called Plain. US tech salaries are at a 5 year low, decreasing 9% from $141,000 to $129,000 from 2022 to mid-2023.

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

In February 2023, I hit my 10-year anniversary (or “Gainaversary,” as we say) of running Gainsight. To run a startup, you have to make bets. Mistake #4: Not standardizing pricing and related systems early Every enterprise-oriented startup, including Gainsight, can fall into the same trap. For this one deal, we just need to do X.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Hooked delivers insights into the psychology of user habits and engagement to design captivating products. The Lean Startup provides principles for continuous innovation and validated learning in the fast-paced and disruptive SaaS space. Product Rantz is an amusing read on ‘how to lose users and alienate your customers.’

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

Which are the best Userflow alternatives in 2023? Its lowest Startup pricing plan is competitively priced but the Pro is not so anymore. Userflow is a code-free digital adoption platform that enables product, marketing , and customer success managers to build onboarding flows and collect user feedback via in-app surveys.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This post is now the single best way to find my best stuff across both the newsletter and podcast. I’m feeling stressed and overwhelmed When enough is enough | Andy Johns (ex-FB, Twitter, Quora) Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path) How to know when to stop How to be prepared for layoffs 5.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 15, 2024

(above: Me in Sep 2023, a happy author, finding the Japanese translated version of my book at the wonderful Daikanyama Tsutaya Books in Tokyo) Dear readers, As many of you know, 2 years ago I published my first book THE COLD START PROBLEM. — then it got a little mushier.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. Next BoS Conf – USA 2023 Get updates Watch talks As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS!

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 7, 2023

I’m currently serving PDMA by being an author on the 3rd edition of their body of knowledge for product innovation, which Wiley is publishing in early 2024. Register for PDMA’s 2023 Inspire Innovation Conference on September 16th-19th in New Orleans, LA, USA. PDMA is the Product Development and Management Association.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

I let Pearson know that I was looking for something full-time rather than an internship—and I was also considering a product role at a startup. I spent three years at Pearson, then I joined Thinkful—which at the time was about a 60-person startup. Ellen Brandenberger will lead the next cohort of Defining Outcomes in July 2023.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation. In one such startup, that asked to start in the middle, we ended up spending a full hour discussing the first sentence. It read “we focus on the SaaS market”.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

the CPO of a well-known startup, described the following case to me: she gave the team high-level instructions on a certain feature and she didn’t care how they would take it from there. You want them to be calculated risks on one hand, but significant on the other, and various guidelines apply to different cases.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2023

An example of the latter is something I had with a healthcare startup I worked with. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on May 3, 2023.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

These could be: Product managers – to identify opportunities to improve the product, prioritize features , optimize the roadmap , and ensure alignment between user needs and the product strategy. For non-technical teams and bootstrapped startups, it makes way more sense to use product analytics software.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2023

CAC payback period benchmarks for SaaS companies Data from Geckoboard shows that SaaS startups average a CAC payback period of 12 months or less. In fact, Userpilot’s October 2023 update includes path-tracking capabilities that can help you with this process: Get your free Userpilot demo today!

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 10, 2023

You can choose from the following plans: Free – Ideal for teams looking to establish product-market fit. Starter – Suitable for startups looking to scale their business. Amplitude also facilitates collaboration among different teams, including product, marketing, and customer success.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

How to Conduct a Product Health Check Why gathering health indicators helps you make better product decisions I was chatting to a friend the other day who had just taken on a senior product director level role at a venture backed startup. They remarked that one of their biggest challenges was figuring out where to start.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

As a result, you’ll likely end up overshooting your budget, which makes Heap unsuitable for small teams and early-stage startups. You can choose from the following plans: Free – Ideal for teams looking to establish product-market fit. Starter – Suitable for startups looking to scale their business.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

This functionality will be available in Q4 of 2023. Userpilot’s cohort analysis User retention is critical for the success of digital products, it’s linked to the product’s ability to consistently deliver value to the users and is a key measure of business health. What do users say about Userpilot?

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

Here’s an overview of the pricing plans and features of each plan: Starter plan : This plan features essentials to find product-market fit. This functionality will be available in Q4 of 2023. It is also essential in the process of achieving a product-market fit and retaining constant growth.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2023

Its simple interface and templates “force” you into a predefined approach to onboarding, coupled with enterprise software with a high price tag and some enterprise-level integrations make Appcues positioning confusing: Is it a simple tool (as its UI suggests) for startups? Appcues doesn’t support employee training.

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