The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s a common element of a team startup or launch, and strong teams often revisit their team norms. c) Think like your user : An empathy exercise can help the whole team clarify their customers’ and users’ pain points. Even a short empathy exercise can help align the team on the user’s pain points and needs.

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Oren Steinberg

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Why do we go to startup competitions? “ One of the fastest growing paths for raising funds and awareness to your startup is competitions. The number of startup competitions seems to have grown tremendously over the past few years. I myself participated in dozens of startup competitions over the past couple of years.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? Throw in some startup & technology related posts?—? Or the company blog. probably once a quarter?—?offer

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Dear startup founders & product builders, The whole idea of “product-market fit,” i.e. that there’s some magical, universal, knowable tipping point for when you should stop improving your product and start marketing it, is dumb. ” Thus, “product-market fit” was born. How might we do that?

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Product Talk

JULY 6, 2022

For example, in my book and here on the Product Talk blog, I often use the example of a streaming entertainment company. I can still run through a hypothetical exercise. There will be some people, particularly in startups, who are going to want to see you take it a step further. I can still map out the opportunity space.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

“The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences” The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences as we continue on that journey.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

So, I thought it might be a worthwhile experiment to aggregate the previous meetups into a one-day immersive workshop on Liberating Structures for Scrum, built around climate change and MegaBrain.io, a struggling startup with little runway left and in desperate need of two successful Sprints. The Liberating Structures Immersive Workshop?—?The

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). A minimum delightful product is a term first popularized by Adam Berry – a successful entrepreneur – on his blog, Startup Blender. Let’s start building!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. That being said, it’s still a learned skill which you can begin exercising today, no matter where you are in your career. This article was also published on The Product Management Blog.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 30, 2009

Every startup goes through phases including brainstorming ideas, selecting evaluation criteria, performing due diligence on top ideas, picking a winner, deciding on a corporate structure , putting together the team, evaluating funding options, and more. Exposure to Startup Ideas. I'm personally innately curious.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. Those should be standardized formats as well for easier creation and analysis during exercises later on. this is a team exercise, and secondary stakeholders should participate here. When creating customer profiles?—?guess guess what?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you're a PM at an early stage startup, expect to work a lot. At a small startup, you will be wearing so many hats and it will often feel overwhelming how much work has to get done.". Unwind With Exercise. This means blocking out time in the day for focused work (e.g. Make Smart Product Decisions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I’m also constantly up-to-date on the newest and hottest tech companies via tech blogs and influencers. AKA “LinkedIn for startups.” every now and then you can read about a startup that just raised a big round of funding. I’ve personally got wind of a lot of under-the-radar startups this way. AngelList ?—?AKA

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 19, 2017

I call this unlocking my inner beast mode and I've been experimenting with a variety of practices as I pursue my latest startup to drive maximum productivity. Exercise has become an equally important part of driving productivity. Blogging is definitely this way for me. Manage your body to enhance your mind.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 13, 2019

Unless you’re an early stage startup, your product positioning is well documented. Every new release and every new product becomes a simple exercise in adding more proof points to the overall value story for each market segment. A product structure alone will never get you there. Related Article: Out with Product Marketing 1.0

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

I read all the blogs. I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting. Why does this happen? End result?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? Take the example of the principle ‘ship to learn’.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Marty’s blog is pretty good too. Plus, the whole Lean Startup thing is all the rage right now so it gives you a genuine reason to try it out and add those buzzwords to your LinkedIn profile. There are some that cater for newbies trying to break into the field, whereas others cater for people with more experience. How do I Find a job?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Eric Ries, Author of The Lean Startup. Key learnings.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 13, 2020

This book contains simple and helpful exercises that can help you get started on your PM interview prep journey. For this, you might need the The Product Manager Interview: 164 Actual Questions and Answers to do the exercises. General: Exponent's Blog , Product Hired's curated list of PM advice. 3 Interview Prep Methodically.

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Radical Product

MAY 5, 2020

But while launching products and startups give us the illusion of progress, studies show that technology hasn’t always made the world better. Lean Startup taught us to innovate faster by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. No, to be clear, this is not to dismiss Lean Startup.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

After exploring the distinct perspectives on your team, use the exercise described in this video to create a shared map. This is one of the most powerful exercises I’ve come across for quickly getting to a shared understanding. We all see the world differently and we want to leverage our unique experiences when creating together.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

When you see a company pull $10 million in funding and hiring like crazy, it’s easy to want the same for your startup without understanding the stress that comes with it. The world of startups is full of people either shutting down or being forced into an acquisition because they’ve run out of money. It’s as simple as that.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Marty’s blog is pretty good too. Plus, the whole Lean Startup thing is all the rage right now so it gives you a genuine reason to try it out and add those buzzwords to your LinkedIn profile. There are some that cater for newbies trying to break into the field, whereas others cater for people with more experience. How do I Find a job?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles. Radhika is co-Founder of Radical Product Thinking. Upcoming Events. BoS USA Online 2020.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) Follow me on Twitter and subscribe to my blog Age of Product ?? By the way, it’s free. ??

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2020

We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Smaller startups may only be able to use one or two efficient and cheap methods, whereas massive companies will be able to do much more. This exercise will also be vital for finding your product-market fit.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2021

When I started at Autonomic we were a small, scrappy little startup and we’ve grown in terms of people and numbers of teams and spread out across geography.”. Startups and product managers can be the most resistant to investing in a roadmapping tool because it’s not where their attention lies.

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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. Startups can announce a new version every few weeks but if no one uses it?—?that’s Follow me on twitter @gilbouhnick or subscribe to the Mobile Spoon newsletter to get my occasional blogs directly to your inbox.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Elizabeth Grantham – Founder and Product Owner at TheOptimal.me – subscription exercise plans for mature women. We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. It’s been a wild adventure, so I wanted to share the end-to-end experience with you: how I prepared, mistakes I made, my hard-ball negotiation, the secrets behind compensation, and how my blog boosted Instagram’s interest. This is a story I did not expect to write.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2018

A website or app that encourages people to exercise more might offer a reward whenever a user exercises, thus creating extrinsic motivation for the person to show that behavior. Surprisingly enough, that task was not publishing a blog post. It was adding a custom blog theme.

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Product Club

JULY 7, 2018

Faced with that challenge, one exercise can be extremely helpful: a product deep dive. For example, if you’re interviewing for a role at a food-delivery startup, don’t just download the app and look through the delivery options. As a result, attempting to prep for the wide range of varying questions you might face is daunting.

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