PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 20, 2019

Although product managers at consumer and enterprise companies have a title in common, the jobs themselves can vary drastically. So, how is product management in enterprise different from consumer tech? Solving problems once they’ve been discovered is equally as different between the consumer and enterprise worlds.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

This article delves into the importance of UI UX research, particularly for enterprise customers and B2B companies. The importance of UX research for enterprise customers and B2B companies cannot be overstated, particularly for mature SaaS providers and startups. What is UX Research in Design?

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to use Leo to: Track your competitors and their strategic moves Stay ahead of consumer trends and insights Scout technical innovation Identify business development opportunities. Scout technical innovation. Crypto’ is a Technology Leo Concept that recognizes numerous terms for Crypto.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  But each requestor (naturally) sees their item as urgent, strategic, top priority.    Now.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. While the SAAS model has disrupted this thought process, enterprise software very much depends on forward integrators.

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Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

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Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

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Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This includes Tech estimates (at least T-shirt sizing) and resources identified for the projects. Data vs Intuition.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

Instead of reaching out directly to a sales team, customers are taking matters into their own hands and looking to trusted peer reviews for guidance. Amanda, who’s always worked at the intersection of marketing and technology, is, by her own admission, a data geek. That’s really been the core thread ever since for me.

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UX Planet

MARCH 7, 2024

This limitation affects not just the quality of design but also the efficiency and innovation of the team, leading to higher costs over time due to inefficiencies and the potential need for external consultations or interventions. Furthermore, the real outcomes become evident in 3 to 4 sprints, showcasing the rapid progress achievable.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( B2B is lumpier than B2C.). A promise to treat them equitably.

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to use Feedly AI to: Track your competitors and their strategic moves Stay ahead of consumer trends and insights Scout technical innovation Identify business development opportunities Start free trial Before we look at those four examples, let’s start with a short overview of how Feedly AI works.

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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”. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. The team also agreed to initiate a weekly meeting to review and clarify requirements and to estimate the user stories. Long standups.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Over this same period, one tech company has emerged to become similarly entrenched in the everyday life of people around the globe. What can we, in the SaaS sector, learn from one of tech’s true behemoths? Many SaaS startups are eager to graduate to the enterprise arena. Big enterprises are super demanding.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And that’s how I got into product development—I was beta testing, writing documentation, spec’ing out new features, and learning a lot about technology and hardware, networking, software, processing, clients, all sorts of things. Bridging that gap from creative to technical had some challenges. It was a great fit. This was around 2005.

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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. I created a spreadsheet that they needed to fill, that included the customer size (it’s a B2B company), industry, and primary use case for buying the product. Two options, to force yourself to choose.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a B2B Product Manager? This career guide offers a detailed overview of the best B2B product management training options. There is no shortcut to becoming a B2B product manager. Business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) product managers (PMs) have mastered various hard skills.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

But apart from new technologies, we saw also another big emerging trend: a greater emphasis on…simply creating more value for your users through continuous discovery and being more attuned to user feedback and needs. This in turn will give Product People more time for creative and strategic work. It might not be easy.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). Software as a Service has become the predominant business model for B2B software. Gartner Tech Growth & Innovation Conference. SaaStr Annual.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2020

To help you make a better-informed decision about your future technology partner, we’ve conducted market and industry research in order to define the best cross-platform app development companies. Every day Red Foundry helps tackle complicated challenges that businesses face when it is going about mobile technology. You might wonder?—?why

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

And so, when we were answering RFIs and RFPs (long requirement documents that large enterprises request vendors to fully answer before they start testing their products) there was almost always a question asking whether or not we supported this capability. I wanted to be able to say yes. Close the gap.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 6, 2023

In a recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) report sponsored by Gainsight PX , researchers found that 81% of survey respondents strongly agree that a strong digital product experience positively impacts business growth. Why You Need a Product-Led Growth Tech Stack. Best Practices in Enterprise Product Management.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 12, 2021

Clutch is a reputable field guide for B2B agencies, so we collected each eCommerce web design company with higher ratings in their database. We reviewed their portfolios and services and created our top list of eCommerce web design agencies to work with. Absolute Web. They follow a six-step cycle when working on products.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For a decade, she’s worked closely with tech companies to drive behavior change. It’s technically complex. Testing multiple prices in the market for SaaS products also means maintaining them—which no technical team wants to do indefinitely. Enter my friend Kristen Berman. What if we annoy users?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Since the establishment, this team has shipped more than 700 successful projects for businesses of all sizes, including startups, SMEs, medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises. Fireart Studio creates a world-class user experience and user interface design that has been featured on all the most popular B2B ranking platforms.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. In fact, we fire enterprise sales folks who don’t close big deals.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. Going upmarket usually involves a rebranding effort to appear more enterprise-ready. “Not too many tech companies have a smiley face embedded within their logo.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Our journey has led us to partner with startups and enterprises in more than 250 projects worldwide. As one of the best digital design agencies, Basic offers an ample number of services, from strategy and brand experience to content and technology solutions. Their previous clients include Wellbank, Esthe Home, Cofinance, and Pluck.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

One of them is location, so this time we reviewed the top companies to help you find the right UX agency in London. We are an official Zeplin agency member and honoured to be among the top B2B service providers on the Clutch Global Award list. Our list includes digital design agencies in London and beyond. Plug & Play .

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2020

Enter GetAccept , the all-in-one platform for B2B sales teams that brings video, live chat, proposal design, document tracking and e-signatures together to simplify the life of a sales team. A centralized solution. The post How GetAccept uses all of Intercom to grow its revenue by 450% appeared first on Inside Intercom.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2024

Technological progress now facilitates examination efforts on both structured and unstructured datasets effectively addressing large-scale analytical complexities. Ensuring high-quality data can be demanding due to issues such as disjointed tools or insufficient analytical expertise. Best wishes on your endeavor!

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is largely caused due to not researching enough around the market you are building for understanding the target audience and spending enough time with your customers to build empathy for them and understand their pain points. After hitting the market and failing, Glass has since pivoted to a B2B model and have changed their strategy.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

And in the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships, we have learned how critical our clients are to making it through ups and downs. Once companies got through the initial panic from March to May, many technology firms started growing thanks to expansion in their existing clients again. Services teams finish the “project”.

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