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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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2022

One reason we expanded into New York City is to grow our expertise outside of B2B. The city has a concentration of DTC and B2C startups and scale-ups with product needs. The advantage a founder has when working with us is that they get a team of product experts who have experience with hundreds of startups and scaleups.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Use it to make better product decisions. Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution. Information from the front lines is critical when helping product decision-makers prioritize what to build next.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. How to Build a B2B SaaS Product Development Strategy Using Data.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s easy to connect the dots between mission and product when you consider the social media behemoth’s more than 2 billion worldwide users. But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Goals: Understand the company Strategy, including Mission, Vision, context for identifying opportunities, and Goals (include links to relevant assets) Dive into the product development lifecycle and ask yourself: How do the stages differ from what you’ve seen at other companies?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The best product managers think strategically and make difficult trade-offs quickly. They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. They prioritize conflicts and manage revenue targets, resource constraints, and market demands. Does it grow the business?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? has become a battle cry in product development that just means make it minimal, make it cheap, and make it fast. This makes so much sense.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This not only requires a strong vision, or what the more cynical would call childish naivety. In this pivot, you broaden the range of services/products being offered. It is often made by companies who found a product-market fit and are ready to expand their horizon. The Zoom-out pivot is the opposite of the zoom-in pivot.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Design products that customers want and come up with a rock-solid value proposition by focusing on their objectives, pains and gains. With around 90% of tech startup failure being due to a lack of product-market fit , the stakes are high when it comes to understanding your customer.

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svpg

JULY 15, 2016

I’ve explained that the context typically needs to be the product vision, and a specific set of outcome-based objectives for each team (OKR’s are an effective way to do that). Product Vision. Product Vision. In truth, buying into a vision is a bit of a leap of faith. Product Strategy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

Analytic Tools 60

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Throughout the program, each mentor leads a conversation in an area of their expertise that is live streamed and available to both mentee and the broader product community. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Research Software Customer Experience User Testing 60

BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Design products that customers want and come up with a rock-solid value proposition by focusing on their objectives, pains and gains. With around 90% of tech startup failure being due to a lack of product-market fit , the stakes are high when it comes to understanding your customer.

User Testing 45

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Customer Retention Strategy for Your Marketing & Sales Departments How to Build Products Designed for Retention The Role of Product Marketers in Customer Retention The Customer Support Strategy Why Is The Data You Collect So Important to CS and Retention? Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. As a product marketer , it is your job to identify the best target audience for your product, while also finding the best pricing options, distribution channels, and unique value propositions.

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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. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The best is yet to come. 🎖️ The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. A lot has changed since Close started teaching people and startups how to sell. We’re not really a startup anymore. to Close.com.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Speed, the ability to move and improve, to iterate and innovate, is paramount, and if you listen to Intercom on Product regularly, this probably sounds familiar. Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I think a lot of startups do this too, right? Des: It’s fair to say in some cases a company is literally defined by its exact product, as in there is a one-to-one relationship between what the company is trying to do and what the product is trying to do and a lot of B2B products are in that space. Des: Right.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. And then the entrepreneurial bug bit, and I started a bagel company in San Francisco – which as far as product-market fit goes, it was so amazingly easy to get there. Wootric’s vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2019

The most sophisticated marketing plans today deploy at least nine disciplines which range from content marketing, to evangelist recruitment, to customer lifecycle marketing and beyond. B2B marketing has become radically more complex, and it follows that the role of the CMO has too.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives. At the same time, I was doing a bunch of startup advisor work. Des: It is, it’s proper startup arbitrage, I guess.

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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. Strategic health Product strategy is about decision making and trade offs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Understanding how B2B product management is a different ball game altogether Product folks who have worked on the early stage enterprise products may relate with the title. Building an enterprise product is a whole lot different from building a consumer product. Product teams work on delivering the vision.

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