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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn

Product Talk

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. ). If you work on software that your internal colleagues use (e.g. How Continuous Discovery Works (And Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups.

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Product Management Journey?—?Developer to Consultant to Product Manager

The Product Coalition

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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Women Making an Impact in Product Management in APAC

The Product Coalition

She is currently running a startup in Australia and lecturing on product management for INSEAD. She started her career as a software engineer. Mina Radhakrishnan has been at Google, Modcloth and was the first product manager for UBER. Her interviews on Product Management are a must watch!

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Alternative Product Business Models

Department of Product

And whilst some roles in product require a background in software engineering, these are usually optional. Clearly, this isn’t applicable for all products, but it’s an interesting development in the B2C space. We were recently inspired by the folks at Deel, a startup focused on helping global businesses hire global talent.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

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. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. A few years later, joined a startup. Intercom on Product: Keeping the momentum going as you scale.

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The 3 Sets of Technical Product Manager Interview Questions

The Product Coalition

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.