The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). As any startup will tell you, managing an idea from concept to launch is a lot easier said than done. Why does Lean matter?

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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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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 Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • BuildBetter —AI for product teams • Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce’s MuleSoft and at Metromile.

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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

APRIL 4, 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

JUNE 13, 2025

In this episode, Maya breaks down the product philosophy that drives iFundWomen and how values like inclusion, community, and empowerment are embedded into every step of the product journey.

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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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Bryce York

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

So here are 6 mental models for building an AI product strategy: 1. Your AI product strategy needs to actually be strategic! Ship improvements often, use feedback and data to get better, and stay agile with the rapidly evolving AI tech. In the AI era, agile, experiment-driven teams will outpace the rest.

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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. Bonus Questions: What do you enjoy doing as Chief Product Officer at Obo? Context-switching is also hard.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 14, 2018

Product Manager, Patient Care @ Quartet Health (New York, NY). Keywords: Data Analysis, Product Management, Product Strategy. Head of Product @ Mighty (New York). Senior Product Manager @ Turing (New York ). Keywords: b2b, Fintech, Healthtech, Legal, SaaS.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Instead of preparing perfect presentations for the boardroom, successful product managers: 1. Incorporate diverse viewpoints into product strategy 4. As organizations grow, product management roles typically become more specialized and focused on smaller components of the overall product strategy.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

But because it’s the most common title what’s important to consider is what product they manage – if they’re a product manager for Facebook’s News Feed and impact billions of users they’re probably more senior and experienced than a product manager at a brand new startup. Senior Product Manager.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Even among experienced product professionals, a common misconception in business holds that product strategy and business strategy mean the same thing. Product professionals need to understand the distinction between business strategy vs. product strategy. Imagine a software startup.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Rapid Experimentation for Product Managers. by Jonny Schneider, Head of Product Strategy and Design.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

In this episode of Productside Stories, our host Rina Alexin talks to Rachel Owens , product executive and growth expert. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls, build strong GTM alignment, and refine your product strategy for sustainable success.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 8, 2024

By taking on the operational tasks that often bog down product managers, Product Ops allows product managers to concentrate more on customer needs, innovation, and strategic planning. This not only enhances the product development lifecycle but also contributes to a more agile and responsive product team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

I’m seen more consulting companies like Silicon Valley Product Group be created, and more traditional IT consulting companies pivot to hire experienced design and product people. looking for a ‘Senior Agility & Product Manager Coach’ For some, it’s a deliberate move. Credit Association of Product Professionals.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 30, 2025

What you’ll learn: Why traditional Agile and Scrum methods often lead teams into endless cycles of work without meaningful shipping milestones. The “appetite-driven” approach to product development where teams set fixed timeboxes (usually six weeks maximum) and vary the scope instead of expanding timelines.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Upsell Strategy (upgrade, expand, replace) b. To do so, the activities of the PM include: a.

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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 Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Indeed the role of a product leader is different to that of a product manager. A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. The Scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Standups, etc.)

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 27, 2023

Learn these 3 mindsets to stop relying on strategy frameworks and improve your strategic thinking. Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

They are a great fit for the positions above and for your company, especially when the position is connected to Product-Led Growth. Som Nath [Image] Candidates short profile Som has over 6 years of experience in the tech industry, particularly in 0-to-1 startup environments. How can Som benefit your company?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

… And what that means for startups and innovators today [We were] just sentient puppets on God’s stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road … so very brief and sore was life with us. Startups, though, are vaporous?—?they Don’t wait for more perfect products.

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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.

Analytic Tools 150

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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.

Analytic Tools 150

Analytic Tools Research Software Customer Experience User Testing 150

The Product Guy

MARCH 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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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders. I'm going to call them all products.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 2, 2020

In order to succeed in a product management role, one needs to know about the role. These include reading product management books about lean startup, agile and product strategy. Product managers should also test out the tools that will be used for planning, roadmaps, user stories, analytics and more.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2017

Why do we focus so much time and effort on digital transformation, agile transformation, and innovation? These Entrepreneurial Leaders need new skills and a different mindset, because ideas like Good and Progress look very different in a startup than they do in the core business. What is the point of innovation? Prepare for Change.

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