The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Intentional test kitchens are more strategic and provide a fast path to customer product fit (I write more about customer product fit over product market fit in my book, The Founder’s Manual ), because they are created for the very purpose of providing a representative working environment for a product to operate inside of.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And, you know, sometimes such a request is better than a 75-pages technical requirement. Booking as in AirBnB and HeadSpace-like design When it comes to writing app development RFPs, feature requirements are important yet not critical. Technical specification might be helpful for accounting? There were no other details.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. What was the reason why you wanted to write this particular book?

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

So, when I saw a new book titled, Deliver Great Products That Customers Love , I knew I had found a kindred Everyday Innovator and I asked him to talk with us. The author of the book is Valerio Zanini. 2:46] Why did you write this book? Useful links: The book, Deliver Great Products That Customers Love. Innovation Quote.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. He is the author of the bestselling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Obviously that’s not true, even projects that were executed by the book can fail, at least from an economic point of view. As an aside, I think that much-cited startup maxim “fail fast, fail often” makes the wrong emphasis. Technical Feasibility. In the end it is almost always about finding product/market fit.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Design thinking companies aim to understand users’ pain points before developing a technically feasible solution that addresses their needs.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

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. Technical experience is not required. online courses or reading books). What is an IBM offering manager?

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

You won’t find these two sentences in any books on product management: “It was 6:45am. ” But you’ll find them in Take Charge Product Management because Geracie uses the story of a fictitious product manager to illustrate the skills, processes, and deliverables that he presents in the book. .”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. As I mentioned, I was a PM at a fast-growing San Francisco startup and I grew to be VP product, so I’d seen the pain points and the struggles of being an individual PM.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

And then when I was around 10 years old, my dad bought me a book called Learn C++ in 12 Easy Lessons, which was not an accurate title by any means. ” But I work in startups. 30 days is a long time at a startup, so I would dispute that you should wait and do nothing for 30 days. That got me fascinated by computing early on.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you! Get a demo today!

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Who is going to tell Barnes and Noble or Borders that their business model is crumbling in the face of Kindle books and 1 day Amazon Prime powered delivery? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

But alas, as startups scale, as more people join and those people turn into teams, which then turn into teams of teams and into orgs, you’re adding a lot of complexity to the mix. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: As a startup grows, things like more teams, processes, and cross-collaboration are unavoidable.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. You can read all about that in the Project Management Body of Knowledge book. It had to be the first of its kind.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I hosted Elad on the podcast for a conversation that ranged from the key themes of his new book to scaling a healthy culture and ins and outs of mergers and acquisitions.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? In the book Billion Dollar Coach his coachees play tribute to him by sharing their experience working with Bill. I was super excited to read this book, as it gives you a little look inside how these great teams work. Who speaks at the meeting?

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

This is supported by the definitive book on organizational design in engineering teams: Team Topologies. If you doubt my recommendation, give this book a read. Who does technical leadership? Some books I suggest on this topic are Understanding Michael Porter and Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. Who does project management?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

This is an old idea I think Peter Drucker talked about it in the ‘60s, Andy Grove has talked about it in his book recently more popularized by Google. So what Dewey is advising us to do. So, I’m going to start with, yesterday we learned from Whitney about OKRs – that is one way of trying to manage by outcomes.

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Aptrinsic

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jeetu advises that product managers embrace the following 10 lessons as a rubric for leading their companies to success. #1. Scarcity brings about creative thinking, so Jeetu advises keeping teams extremely small in this phase. Because it’s such an important job with lots of responsibility, product managers can’t afford to mess up.

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