The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Unaware of it, you let it slide — and it grows and grows until the entire company is impacted. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. Note: everything I say here is true for mature product companies as well. We are a startup, after all.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

It is a methodology that is followed by a majority of software development companies today. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). As any startup will tell you, managing an idea from concept to launch is a lot easier said than done.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 18, 2022

Des shares insights from the full range of his career – the chat is packed full of anecdotes and lessons about the origins of Intercom, the most enduring startup myths, his approach to angel investing, the challenge of SaaS product marketing, and much more. ” The Makings of Great Product Marketing. .”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2023

Former CEO of Picker explains mistakes made in pursuit of product-market fit. This pursuit motivates companies to dream about breakthrough strategies. It’s about a company that seemed to have a great idea from the start, but then, as the story goes, they failed to achieve product-market fit.

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First Round Review

MAY 14, 2018

It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M game-changer. Continue reading at First Round Review »

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. Though he’s now a Product Manager at Facebook, Karthik Suresh co-founded Altrest and grew Craft.io Finding product/market fit.

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Userpilot

APRIL 17, 2024

Mixpanel provides insights into customer journeys to help businesses refine product-market fit and drive growth through data-driven strategies. Hotjar enhances user experience and product development with features like heatmaps and custom integrations, delving deep into user behavior. How do you gather customer insights?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2018

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. Founding a startup is a lot like this. In the very early days of Intercom the marketing hat fell on my head, but I’d be doing marketing a disservice (and 2011 Des a disservice) if I said that’s what I thought I was doing.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Before you rush into creating a product thinking people will love it, it pays to perform a product-market fit analysis. You want to be sure there is a demand for your product, so you don’t have to suffer the embarrassment of a massive flop. What is product-market fit? What is a product-market fit?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey. Where are you? Do you have a clear ICP?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I recently completed the process of hiring for a Head of Design role at my current company and was surprised when I couldn’t find much quality content anywhere (YouTube, Medium, even Google) on how to assess a designer’s portfolio, especially a designer for a senior leadership position. How very * artistic * of me.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In this talk, Alan Chiu pulls from his experience in product management and as a seed-stage venture capitalist to showcase a variety of case studies on companies who have perfected product/market fit. It’s probably not surprising to hear that there is no silver bullet when it comes to market fit.

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First Round Review

MAY 15, 2018

It's rarely a straight line to product/market fit. Here are ClassPass founder Payal Kadakia's hard-won tips for marketplace startups that helped her guide her company from a near-bust to a $470M game-changer.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A Product Marketing Manager (PMM), is one of the least understood roles in the technology industry. As it turns out, the role differs from company to company. Market Research & Analysis To identify how a product or company is unique, the PMM needs to obtain a clear picture of the market.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to the market, promoting it, and selling it to customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Today I want to talk about the blind spots that hiring companies have since they are at least as important for the ability to hire and succeed with the person that will help your company fly. It’s Not About the Plumbing When we work with startups it’s usually a long-term relationship. How challenging would they be?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 24, 2018

The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. In this talk from Mind the Product San Francisco, Dan Olsen, the author of The Lean Product Playbook , tackles the key components of product/market fit and how to achieve it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Today’s rising borrowing costs and dipping public markets are putting a squeeze on startup fundraising. In October 2022, Crunchbase reported that funding rounds for private companies have dropped 53% year-over-year. When it comes to convincing investors why they should write you a check, the proof is in the product.

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Modus Create

JULY 2, 2021

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. It’s one thing to validate your idea in the market. Many startups struggle to carry the momentum of the initial growth spurt. . So, why do most startups struggle to scale? Ignoring Competition.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Analysis of Share of Voice (how consumers perceive the product) 4.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 21, 2018

Brand marketing is mostly useless for consumer startups. Startups build a great brand by being successful, finding product market fit and scaling traction, etc. Early startups should opt out of all of this. Brand marketing is great, but it should be layered on later. But it’s not a real lever.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

Why you should work at a StartUp: Clarifying Reasons The number of people looking for jobs at StartUps has been growing year after year in the last decade, a modest number of students are already planning to work in this type of company since the early years of the University.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 26, 2023

What is the secret to exponential product growth? Daphne Tideman, Growth and Startup coach, joins us on the podcast this week. She discusses Product/market fit, the importance of business/channel models, and where companies go wrong when looking to grow their products.

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Userpilot

APRIL 14, 2023

Which of the currently available digital adoption platforms is the best choice for product, marketing, and customer success teams in 2023? Best for: medium-size product-led companies aiming to quickly and easily boost user adoption in their web-based products. Maybe something completely else? G2 rating: 4.6

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 28, 2017

This post is an introduction to a five part series where I explain for frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. I’ve been lucky to have been part of building, advising, or investing in 40+ tech companies in the past 10 years. I refer to these companies as Smooth Sailers - a little effort for lots of speed.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2023

With freemium , companies are able to increase their brand awareness and grow their customer base at a low cost. This allows them to collect usage data and customer feedback to improve the product. For many companies, the ideal freemium conversion rate is around 2-5%. However, this depends on your product and sector.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s easy to connect the dots between mission and product when you consider the social media behemoth’s more than 2 billion worldwide users. But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup.

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freshtrax

APRIL 11, 2019

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , 20% of startups fail within their first year, 50% fail by their fifth year, and 70% are done by year 10. With so many pressing matters at the forefront of an entrepreneur’s mind, there are many reasons why a startup may fail. Vested is a startup helping small businesses find new employees.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But when you’re an early-stage company, proactive management is difficult without the right resources and tooling. Early-stage companies have started to create a decent customer base. However, they’re constantly iterating—the product roadmap is in flux, and the customer base is in flux. Company morale.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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NextBigWhat

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Elad Gil’s observations on many of the world’s best known billion-dollar companies and the decision frameworks they used along the way. A startup miracle is the key difficult thing you need to pull off for your startup to work. If your startup needs zero miracles to work, it probably isn’t a defensible startup.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

An insight into Product Marketing roles, responsibilities and KPIs after interviewing dozens of Product Marketing Managers. Everyone is hiring Product Marketing Managers (“PMMs”) and there is a great demand for expertise in this space, so read on for a strategic and tactical definition of “What is Product Marketing?”.

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