Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 8, 2018

Web businesses searching for product market fit think they can follow this philosophy just by shipping code. But shipping code doesn’t mean that you’re making any significant product improvements. Similarly you can make undeniable improvements to parts of your product and get no response or appreciation for it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

You had to walk a long way before you could enter product management, and when you did — it was a senior role already. As the product management profession matured, additional levels were naturally added to the career ladder, including junior ones.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Before I take a dive into these different product management specializations you should be looking at when building up your product team , it’s worth noting that at their very core, all product managers have the same set of responsibilities and skills. Core Product Manager. Innovation Product Manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Product Collective blog offers lots of practical advice like early-career tips. Ken Norton offers lots of valuable insights based on years of experience in his Bring the Donuts product manager blog. Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. We often think product and marketing are very separate, but the first P is Product.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Agile and Scrum best practices, product owners and product managers should be two different people. In an idealized vision of product development in an Agile setting, product owners handle the tactical execution of product strategy while product managers concentrate on managing that strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Paul Ortchanian is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me. Below is a list of my upcoming and past speaking engagements.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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Innovatemap

JULY 21, 2021

Josh hired us to get the idea to market, develop his product’s brand, and enable product marketing, but he also wanted a sounding board with a diversity of opinions and ideas. This equips our team to harness the right opportunities for startups like Boost.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

There’s even content on how to land your first product job , what to do when your buyers aren’t your users , and implementing continuous discovery at startups. And if you prefer to watch versus read, there are excellent videos on topics including collaborative decision-making and showing your work to attain stakeholder buy-in.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Product Management Podcast The Product Manager Podcast is a space to share and talk about the latest tips, tricks and tools to build great products and also make the world a better place. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

People always think that product managers operate this very critical, high-leverage function that, when executed correctly, greatly facilitates the leap past prototypes into a steady return of profits. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

He is very interested in investment and innovations in the product sphere, writing on Medium and Twitter about these and other tech transformations. Andrew Chen is currently a consumer startup investor, but in his long career he has been Director of Product Marketing, Co-Founder of a startup and then Growth leader at Uber.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. 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. Our client portfolio is rich and diverse.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

However, it is important to note that the market for these products is still unproven. The right product strategy is necessary to make the smart glass product a success. However, the product roadmap continues to remain hazy. It is all a question about timing and finding the right product market fit.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers. This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results. What did we Learn?

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 10, 2017

The main reason products fail is because they don’t meet customer needs in a way that is better than other alternatives. This is the essence of product-market fit. Product-Market Fit. My definition of product-market fit…is that you have to build a product that creates significant customer value.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Instead of implementing the entire product, teams started to engineer small increments and test them in the market.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my work with startups I noticed two common pitfalls?—?opposite Photo by Daniel Abbatt from Pexels The best startups I work with have truly embraced the lean startup methodology. Working with dozens of startups, I do see, however, companies that are implementing it wrong. You can “do agile” without being agile at all.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. The product and engineering teams grew fast too. This provided the opportunity to build and lead a very talented product team and create the product marketing function. What I Learned From 3.5

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. While many of us are familiar with the uphill battle and the grind involved in getting traction and any growth towards product/market fit, the launch and growth phases represent a small fraction of the overall life of a product. Product Lifecycle.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

You could volunteer to help a non-profit or small business with international product marketing or you could just do some research on a company’s current product / and show how you might improve it. Another example of a “side project” you could do is join a Startup Weekend in your area.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. If the product isn’t in good shape, R&D needs to prioritize getting it up to speed before focusing on the next thing. But you can overthink this thing, for sure.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

While certainly not a product category most of us operate it, it showcases the kind of inspirational feeling a successful product walkthrough leaves your audience with. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 15, 2020

They will help you cut through a lot of the confusion VCs face when trying to get answers from the startup teams approaching them for funding, and for attempting to oversee the companies once they’ve already invested in them. You know the product-creation process from beginning to end. You won’t get to be as agile.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Nilan Peiris: Building A High-Growth Startup Sustainably. Eric Ries: The Startup Way.

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