The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

When I first joined, the startup I work at had often been stuck with a backlog of products and services to create. Our startup’s sales team is incredibly talented and sells successfully – but does not necessarily sell products that have already been developed. In roadmapping meetings, everyone should be engaged in refining it.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. How do they describe the category? The post 9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup appeared first on Inside Intercom. What features are most appealing?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. In this scenario, trying to implement the Lean Startup methodology might be like suggesting that “shortcut” to the ocean liner.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Does it matter what category a particular assumption falls into? Assumptions fall into five categories: desirability, feasibility, usability, viability, and ethical. The value of the categories is they help us generate assumptions that represent risk in our ideas. What is an assumption? What is an assumption test? That’s okay.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

What the product is (the category). Mental Model Categories. What the product does (its key features). Why my product is a better choice for you (the differentiators). This is the classic framework from Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. The value proposition is a mental model in the form of a template.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

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. Taking analogy, is it in the category of pain killer or just a vitamin? It may even resonate with some of us. What are their needs? Does it add value?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

However, if you are a startup to execute such an idea, here’s what you want to know about all-in-one product challenges for B2B offerings. Here’s a metaphor I heard among B2B companies: “We are going to combine features X, Y, Z, and we will become a Swiss pocket knife of market category ABC!” “The

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact. One name kept coming up: Leo Bosuener.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

What a lot of teams—especially startup founders—do is ask their customers, “Hey, would you pay for this? We’re going to put that in the worst category. Many startups concierge test their ideas before they start building—this means they sell and manually deliver their solutions before they build anything.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We had no clue about what “Lean” or “Agile” or even “Startup” essentially meant, but we spent most of our time out in the streets talking to our customers. One way or another, many of the products accounted for in that statistic most likely fall into the So-Lala category.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Zoom recently integrated Dropbox, Slack, and 24 products from different categories, this is all about setting up a complementary ecosystem to get more user adoption. A larger ecosystem of these big players sooner or later becomes a threat for the product-led-growth startups. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

In this article, we’ll present the advantages and disadvantages of paid analytics platforms versus their free version counterparts and the best tools for each category. For startups founded less than five years ago, Mixpanel offers the first year of their Growth plan for free. Which camp would you belong in?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It might be to launch a new product, to define a new category or to hit $1M in revenue. You hit your goal – you launched that new product, defined that new category, hit $1M in revenue. Then apply Lean Startup Principles to hiring by putting people in the role. You probably have a goal in mind.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Mohamed Aboshihata is the Head of Product at MediaZilla, a startup that enables studios to package, distribute, and sell event videos. Benedikte Holm is currently the CPO at Findable, a startup working to make facility management more sustainable by digitizing building documentation. Let’s look at each in a bit more detail.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The legislation is based on a comprehensive AI definition and the associated risk categories. Each AI system is classified into risk categories — Prohibitive, High, Low, Minimal, and General Purpose AI systems. Requirements Legal experts and startups will create compliance scorecards for AI creators in the next few months.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Category Mobile app engagement metric Why track it? The mobile app metrics in this category will help you evaluate your acquisition strategies and make necessary adjustments. However, the appropriate benchmark is heavily influenced by app category and marketing budget. Is your mobile app attracting new users effectively?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 28, 2021

A PR person contacted me about a company that received the 2021 Products That Count award in the Operate category. Data warehouses have become available easily and inexpensively; now a startup has access to the same hardware as a Fortune 500 company. [9:02] 9:02] How can we do a better job creating products for customers using data?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups. Young startups go out of business regularly and their security and reliability is often worse than more mature companies. Best in class Late-stage Startups (e.g. Mid-stage startups.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

If you’re trying to get customers to switch to your product from a competitor or you’re trying to grow your category, you could invest in SEO. But if you’re creating a new category, don’t invest in SEO because people aren’t searching for it yet—instead, invest in content generation. can be an issue.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. Starting sales from scratch.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2018

I have been the CPO/VP of Product for four startups as they scaled to thousands of employees. I sold my first startup Creative Wonders to The Learning Company and we eventually sold this company to Mattel for $3.5 And instead of focusing on competitors, I learned to create all-new categories where there was far less competition.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

I’ve grouped them into 5 broad categories, but as is often the caveat, they’re not mutually exclusive. Noah Weiss - Medium For regular, relevant product content The name of this category is underselling those in it a bit. Jens-Fabian Goetzmann Jens-Fabian is a top writer in the ‘leadership’ and ‘Startup’ categories for good reason.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

Too many startups focus on the first S in SaaS, but they forget all about the second one. Ten years later, there’s still a sense that startups can simply develop a product, lean back, and let the software do all the work. Self-serve software is great, but startups need humans, especially for sales, support and success.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Many startups fall into this category. When the iPhone first came out, it fell into this category. Other examples in this category are Google Docs, Airbnb, Uber, and Salesforce CRM when it first came out. Many blue-ocean startups start here. If your pitch says you are “reinventing something”?—?that’s

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits. Many startups fall into this category. When the iPhone first came out, it fell into this category. Many blue-ocean startups start here.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 2, 2022

I’ve seen four types of CTO roles: The startup CTO is the Jack of all trades. As a startup CTO, one of my first hires is a product manager, a key role in finding the requirements that meet the minimum viable product. The product-line CTO in large organizations owns a particular technology or product category.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. From Wall Street to startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. When you create your own category , it can be tough to gain traction because potential customers simply don’t realize they need you. Nico: Definitely.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Case: “ Suppose you have been hired as a PM for a tech startup that is trying to launch smartwatches in India in a non-premium segment. What is it?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. They seek a solution for their problem, and depending on the maturity of your category and how innovative your product is, they may or may not know what kinds of solutions exist. The truth is quite different. But that’s not how it begins.

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UX Planet

MAY 25, 2025

Thats why we built the AI-Powered Finance & Investment UI Kit : A ready-to-use , beautifully structured UI kit designed to help startups, creators, and innovators build the finance apps of tomorrowtoday. Good transaction management means clarity, simplicity, andspeed.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

He has 30+ years of professional experience in product and leadership roles across large and small organizations and dynamic startups, and now devotes his time to teaching and helping others improve. Bio Chad McAllister, PhD, is a product management professor, practitioner, trainer, and host of the Product Mastery Now podcast.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 5, 2019

Beijing and Shanghai form the world’s second largest tech ecosystem of successful tech companies (Alibaba and Tencent), venture capital and startups behind Silicon Valley. Emerging markets are growing strongly, with cities such as Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Seoul, and Taipei hosting a growing number of tech companies and startups.

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