The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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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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Product Talk

MAY 13, 2020

Product teams struggle to drive business outcomes because many companies haven’t taken the time to define their strategy. Marty Cagan highlighted this in his recent post “ Product Strategy – Focus.” This should be captured in your company strategy—again, where you will play, how you will compete, and why you will win.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2021

That market information becomes the platform for all product, marketing, sales and customer success decisions and priorities. Product management owns that platform. Don’t confuse leadership and influence with a dictatorship. Proving you can execute the strategy seals the deal. That’s right.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

And does focusing on a product-led growth strategy make you a Growth Product Manager? Let’s examine this “new” trend… What Does Product-Led Growth Mean? Product-led growth strategy is a methodology that positions the product as the primary driver of growth for the company. The secret? It’s cheaper.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. I have spent 30 years in the enterprise software space, as a founder, entrepreneur, investor and board member.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career. He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. Lenny’s Newsletter homepage.

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Innovatemap

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From insights keeping us informed on product trends to friendly competition around the Village Table, here’s a list of a few favorites from our team. Lenny Rachitsky Jake Trowbridge, Principal Product Manager Lenny Rachitsky is a goldmine for product management, UX design, product marketing and general business resources.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. Product Drive talks categories This year’s edition comes with four talks categories to give you insights and inspirations into different aspects of Product.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events. SiriusDecisions Summit (May 24-27 in Nashville): I mentioned the presentation on The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs above, but that’s just one of the reasons that product management professionals should attend Summit.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

Upcoming Product Management and Product Marketing Events. SiriusDecisions Summit (May 24-27 in Nashville): I mentioned the presentation on The Art and Science of Identifying and Prioritizing Customer Needs above, but that’s just one of the reasons that product management professionals should attend Summit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

From a Product Management and Strategy viewpoint, I believe internalizing this fear of failure drives some of the best outcomes for the organization and its customers. I will also do away with the notion of a “Product.” Markets need solutions. This consideration is especially true in B2B and B2B2C environments.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it They needed something else.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

Erin shared how she used customer focus and analytics every step of the way to optimize the cloud product offering and marketing strategy. Garima Painuly is a B2B SaaS Product Manager at PowerAdvocate in downtown Boston. She is also involved with user experience design and product marketing.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

Nearly all Product Managers are now exposed to high-level business objectives and strategies and are challenged by the growing demands on time and responsibilities. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that our contributors published. Originally published by Loren O'Brien-Egesborg Any company + product manager ?

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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. It also describes valuable skills you need to learn and career paths within product management, among other things. There is no shortcut to becoming a B2B product manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Product Coalition publishes the most popular one of the product manager blogs on our list. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Interesting Articles: What Makes A Strong Product Culture?

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The Product Bistro

MAY 17, 2016

While it is not strictly a product management responsibility to define and implement a sales strategy, you likely do have a seat at the table during the discussions, and with it, some influence. Regardless of the structure, it will affect much of your strategy and roadmap. Some info on the sales structures below.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Product-led growth is one of the hottest topics in our industry. One way or the other, if you are in B2B SaaS, this is a discussion-worthy topic. Photo by R Khalil from Pexels Product-led growth (PLG) seems to be everywhere these days. If you are in B2B SaaS, it is almost impossible to avoid the discussion, and rightfully so.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

Many B2B product managers reported working in sales-driven organizations, where the sales team may request a feature on a critical customer or prospect’s behalf. Garima Painuly is a B2B SaaS Product Manager at PowerAdvocate in downtown Boston. She is also involved with user experience design and product marketing.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Knowing that you have a problem and knowing what to do about it aren’t usually enough — either because you need to convince others like in the B2B example, or because talk is cheap. Once you understand what is it exactly, you can formulate a strategy. Think about all the people who want to lose weight and do nothing about it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. If you have a product marketing manager, this is a good opportunity to involve them.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

How to Drive Product-Led Growth By KATHRYN SHEPHERD-KING If you’ve been in the product management world for any length of time, you’ll have probably heard about product-led growth. Product-led growth is a go-to-market strategy that relies on using your product as the primary vehicle to acquire, activate, and retain customers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Are you a product-led or sales-led kind of SaaS? Or perhaps you’ve managed to marry the two strategies and embraced product-led sales? If not, but you’d like to learn more, then why not watch the talk that Ben Williams , known as the Product-Led Geek, delivered at the recent Product Drive hosted by Userpilot?

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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. Their domain was tightly related to eBay’s one, and their enterprise B2B model resembled what I did at Imperva. This required a whole new level of thinking and a deep understanding of product-market fit.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 8, 2018

It’s a good concern and a great question, one that underscores that the product management function has matured and become more essential, and as he pointed out, the internet has made both B2B and B2C marketing more quantitative and complex. of product managers report to the CMO (the most), while 6.7%

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This team structure does depend on the current objectives and needs for that specific product, such as increasing employee engagement or getting to product market fit for a specific industry. So product is quite central to your operations?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2018

SIRIUSDECISIONS SUMMIT Inhabitants of the United States and Europe both have access to this B2B focused event. The goal of SiriusDecisions is to bring together B2B professionals in product, marketing, and sales and discuss data-driven best practices and innovations in the B2B space.

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Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) software products, particularly those that have been around a long time, face a unique challenge when it comes to user experience. What are the opportunities that a redesign would provide: to update our pricing and packaging, sales processes, or thought leadership position in the market?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

If you ever worked in a B2B startup, you know that you are chasing opportunities. On a B2B startup, it can look something like this: people are willing to talk to you, and you get a few POCs. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an That’s the first 2 A’s.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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