Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Easy Choice for Working with Designers and Engineers (That May Eventually Become Clunky): FigJam and Figma David Krell and Trevor Acy find the pairing of FigJam and Figma to be effective for their opportunity solution trees. The ease of use has been great to get engineers and stakeholders involved with the process,” says Trevor.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you work at an early-stage startup and you don’t have any customers yet, then you need to talk to prospects. Learn more about how continuous discovery works in early-stage startups here. ). How Continuous Discovery Works (And Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups. If you work on software that your internal colleagues use (e.g.

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Ask Benny

JULY 1, 2019

Too many times, companies look for an exact match of a product manager’s experience with the company’s market or for a very technical product manager that can get very deep into engineering work. A job in Google, Facebook or Amazon is so much different from work in a startup. As a product manager it’s best to try all of the options.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

At startups or growth stage companies, a “Product Manager” is responsible for identifying what needs to be built and then executing on building the product. was responsible for defining timelines with UX, design, and engineering and holding the team to those timelines. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

When a startup grows, there comes a time when they decide to work with OKRs (or any other goal-setting methodology) across the board for the first time. But what about product and engineering? including at least the product and the engineering departments.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

Founders of early-stage startups ask questions like, “When should I hire my first product manager? I usually recommend that startups hire a relatively junior product manager initially. Do you have a combination of B2B people, B2C people, and marketplace people? 19:09] Tell us more about challenges related to people.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Some key people on the team are growth product managers, growth marketers, growth data analysts, growth engineers, and growth UX designers. For burgeoning startups, roles may blend; the head growth marketer could double as the data analyst. Growth Engineer Devises and refines software solutions to buttress growth drives.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The EDC is an autonomous body that promotes the cultivation of startups and entrepreneurial ideas. During my time in the EDC, I participated in startup brainstorming sessions. We typically see this model with B2C purchases in which a customer can find and buy a product via a website, like Netflix or Amazon.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Our customers span across thousands of organizations ranging from smaller, growth-stage startups to Fortune 500 global enterprises. Yet strong alignment among Product, engineering, and the entirety of the go-to-market function is pivotal in delivering positive outcomes. Sales want customer stories and the latest slide deck.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C? To be honest, I haven’t worked in the B2C sector. Following are some of the differences I can think of: Customer Research: B2B PMs tend to speak with customers a LOT more than B2C customers. That’s just because you have so much data in B2C compared to B2B.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his 2010 talk, Smart Bear and WP Engine founder Jason Cohen talks about the proverbial ‘rules of business’ and many varying pieces of advice founders get – often from well-meaning mentors and experts. Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. This is liberating.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. But what if the manager role is not for you?

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Ask Benny

JULY 1, 2019

Too many times, companies look for an exact match of a product manager’s experience with the company’s market or for a very technical product manager that can get very deep into engineering work. A job in Google, Facebook or Amazon is so much different from work in a startup. As a product manager it’s best to try all of the options.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

While Orion had started with a B2C focus, they got a lot of inbound interest in the B2B space. But as she began looking into it, Ellen learned that a lot of the packaged products you can plug in to your app are pretty pricey for a small startup, especially at scale.

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Ask Benny

JULY 1, 2019

Too many times, companies look for an exact match of a product manager’s experience with the company’s market or for a very technical product manager that can get very deep into engineering work. A job in Google, Facebook or Amazon is so much different from work in a startup. As a product manager it’s best to try all of the options.

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Ask Benny

JULY 1, 2019

Too many times, companies look for an exact match of a product manager’s experience with the company’s market or for a very technical product manager that can get very deep into engineering work. A job in Google, Facebook or Amazon is so much different from work in a startup. As a product manager it’s best to try all of the options.

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Ask Benny

JULY 1, 2019

Too many times, companies look for an exact match of a product manager’s experience with the company’s market or for a very technical product manager that can get very deep into engineering work. A job in Google, Facebook or Amazon is so much different from work in a startup. As a product manager it’s best to try all of the options.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market). Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

What’s the difference between product management in B2B/SaaS and B2C? To be honest, I haven’t worked in the B2C sector. Following are some of the differences I can think of: Customer Research: B2B PMs tend to speak with customers a LOT more than B2C customers. That’s just because you have so much data in B2C compared to B2B.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

We discussed how Ellen first learned about continuous discovery and the steps she took to roll it out, specifically with the engineers at Orion Labs. Teresa: We are here today to discuss how Ellen introduced her engineers to discovery and how she got them involved in a more continuous cadence to their discovery work.

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2022

Inbound works really well for smaller SaaS businesses, whether B2B or B2C. When you’re trying to sell to an upmarket target audience, you have to realize that the sales process is a lot more hands-on than the search engine optimization or inbound marketing efforts that you used to get your current customers.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

You have brought together some of the best robotics engineers and have raised money from some of the best Venture Capitalists in the valley. Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn. Make It Right!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2017

Sunil Parekh is the VP of Product Management at Truveris, which is a healthcare startup based out of New York City. In the start of his presentation at ProductTank NYC, he further breaks down his experience by listing some of the professional roles he’s played, like Lab Researcher, R&D Engineer, Product Manager, and Startup Advisor.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. It was a great experience working in an MNC that functions with the startup mindset. But towards the end of 2 years, I felt like I needed to do more than just code so I decided to pursue a Masters in Software Engineering National University of Singapore.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 3, 2018

Let’s say the candidate did well at B2B companies, but maybe not so well in B2C companies’ interviews. So if the target company is a B2C company, then should the hiring department be upfront about the differences in product management between B2B and B2C? (B)

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The Business Architecture pivot is about shifting between a business-to-business (B2B) model, and a business-to-consumer (B2C) model. The engine of growth pivot is about how you aim to grow your service/product and profitability. In the early days, EL-P’s engine of growth was sticky, selling CDs and upselling merchandise at concerts.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2021

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by the rise of tech startups and one of the most common business models from the beginning are online marketplaces. Most marketplaces are B2C companies (Peer-2-Peer model by nature) and that implies that you will need to have scalable & most of the time organical growth channels ?—?SEO

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. I know a friend of mine who was mentally unhappy in a B2B product but found his true calling in a B2C product. Hello, all you product-loving folks!

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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 Lawrence (i.e.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

To help get multiple perspectives, we typically do a Product Development Health Check with a product manager, a delivery manager and a lead engineer. Taking a holistic view of product development across product, delivery, and technology can help a health check identify otherwise hidden issues.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

With backgrounds in engineering, marketing and business, some of them are also founders of their own companies. She is currently running a startup in Australia and lecturing on product management for INSEAD. She started her career as a software engineer. She has been with Microsoft and holds an industrial engineering degree.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2019

From the early days of our startup , I’ve been putting a lot of effort creating a culture of product shipping. Developing a B2C product , our goal was to ship 2 new releases each month. Startups can announce a new version every few weeks but if no one uses it?—?that’s Is that shipping? that’s not my idea of shipping either. “A

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2019

So people add two and two, and they induce that every single worker must have deep understanding of matters like coding, automating and other complex software engineering topics. While UX and UI are as or even more important than in B2C contexts, its technical systems must be rigorous. This is very far from the truth. Sounds enticing?

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