article thumbnail

Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. 99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. A few years ago you saw a trend were products would launch a huge conferences like SXSW.

article thumbnail

How Natural Language Processing Can Revolutionize The Financial Industry

The Product Coalition

Customer service and insights Current financial systems have a lot of gaps in customer service. Innovation-thinking banks and fintech startups use natural language processing to augment intelligent chatbots into the customer experience. The bank uses NLP to automate the process of reviewing large amounts of legal documents.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Growth is a system, not a bag of tricks – Manifesto Conference Q&A video/transcript

Andrew Chen

I recently was interviewed by Tim Chang , Managing Director of the Mayfield Fund at the Manifesto conference. Growth is a full model and system with linked parts and loops that align with your business. Just like adding social to other categories of products has been successful (Social Reviews = Yelp, Social Videos = YouTube, etc.),

article thumbnail

Best Resources for Data Folks

Iteratively Blog

Apache Kafka), distributed systems, and much more. ? Ask any startup founder to recommend you a book on analytics. A large part of the reason is due to the fact that not everything is measurable. Conferences. #1 Data Natives claims to be the largest conference in Europe. Attend the conference. #2

article thumbnail

The Differences, Pros and Cons Between Waterfall and Agile Methodologies

The Product Coalition

Waterfall project management is ideal for consistent and reliable results on software development projects or systems that don’t need rapid changes. Due to the covid-19 outbreak, remote work becomes normal. It’s essential for custom software development teams working on various aspects of a system.

article thumbnail

20 Product Manager Blogs Worth Following in 2022

Userpilot

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. OpenView Venture Partners’ blog offers insights into the financial side of running a startup. Interesting Articles: How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups. First Round’s The Review.

Blog 98
article thumbnail

How to Prepare Banks for Digital Transformation

The Product Coalition

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. combined with carefully carried out due diligence?—?can If there is no need for a scheduled conference call on a particular day, it can be canceled to divert resources to more urgent tasks.

Banking 89