Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. The Black Mirror Test. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Talk to us.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Have you ever worked on a product that didn’t meet customer needs or deliver the expected results? This will help to ensure that the results of the test are reliable and interpretable.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Wondering what the best product conferences of 2021 are? February Product Conferences. We are already halfway through the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean you have missed your chance at some quality conferences. What: The largest online product management conference in the world with years of digital experience.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. The Black Mirror Test. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. To this day, Rohini continues to cold-call customers.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. They interview customers , run usability tests, and conduct A/B tests. Last May, I spoke at the Front conference in Salt Lake City. 9:16] Continuous Customer Interviews. [20:12] Google Ads.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why were there so many consumer successes in the Bay Area but not elsewhere? In my case, I was very interested in the state of the art on growing users, metrics, network effects, and marketing. Why I avoid conferences And in particular, I find writing to be much more powerful than going to conferences. Thank you!)

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

Software project managers deal with long product development cycles and keep changing priorities that disrupt the custom software development process. As a result, a finished software product doesn’t meet customers’ requirements and expectations. It often makes testing stages of products or changing other alternatives impossible.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? In B2B companies, value should ultimately generate profit (get new customers, upsell to current customers, or avoid churn), and it ends up in an equation like this. In fact, some methods are pretty poor.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Userpilot publishes well-researched and in-depth articles on all aspects of product management including product growth, retention, and adoption. 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.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. It’s not just about shipping features, but about creating value for both our customers and our businesses. As we evolve toward outcomes, it’s not just about shipping features, it’s about creating value for both our customers and our businesses. Tweet This.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

While there are several approaches to product development, there are five main phases that a product team has to go through to guarantee the project’s success: Research: In this stage, product managers investigate both their product market as well as the needs of possible users. Work with real SaaS startups as an intern.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. What are we learning from customers that we don’t have to worry about learning over and over again, versus what’s the part that can be disrupted at any moment? Customer Discovery. Remote Working.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it. The definition of product-market fit:] When customers agree that your product creates enough value for them relative to the other options that are available. What is product/market fit? Quote of the Episode.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 2, 2018

OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. ” The difference between high- and low-intent users. ” The difference between high- and low-intent users. For all your users coming in, only some of them are high-intent. Why is that?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Also with us is Carmel Dibner, who is principal and co-owner at Applied Marketing Science, where she has helped dozens of companies uncover critical customer insights to improve products, services, and customer experiences.?Before They have to manage politics, fit into the company’s processes, and do upfront work. [6:21]

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Egyptian-born Abdelrahman (Abdo) Wahba co-founded popular Arabic audiobook site Iqraaly – but it wouldn’t have seen its current success unless Abdo had taken the time to analyse deeply what made customers stay loyal. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Breaking Into Enterprise Customers at Shopify. It’s well known that moving your user base upmarket is challenging – but it can be done. I can’t help thinking this is a way of experimenting in the greatest tradition of the Lean Startup. Who are these customers that want more? What do they want?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. A/B testing can often kill big, existing ideas because [it] expects results quickly – and you can’t get results quickly from big, important idea changes.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Join me at the annual PDMA conference, Chicago Nov 12-15. Products outside the norms of a category create anxiety for consumers. Researchers found that consumers are curious when products are different from what they expect, but if they are too far from the norm, they will resist it. Test-driven product management.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 1, 2016

“Product/Market Fit” is a concept that every start-up founder knows is important, but many have trouble achieving or even defining. In The Lean Product Playbook , author Dan Olsen details a six-step process to achieving product/market fit: Determine your target customer. Identify underserved customer needs.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In the meantime, we’re re-running two episodes that fit the theme of the season: reflection and planning for 2020. And while we spend a lot of time focusing on the things that we’re building and obsessing over our users, it becomes easy to neglect ourselves. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Not testing your ideas is a great way to fail fast. They help you to find your product-market fit , get stakeholder and user feedback, and start building buzz around your upcoming launch. Draw out a basic idea of what your user interface will look like. Eric Ries describes it perfectly in The Lean Startup.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We set ourselves a really clear sprint question, one that you can answer with a yes or a no… [and] at the end of 5 [user] tests, we’ll know how that the user would have answered that question… Unless a minimum of 3 – usually 4 or 5 – are a strong yes, it’s a fail and we’ll have to go back around again.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 29, 2021

You will own our Hubspot environment across the Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams, and be responsible for educating the broader organization on data hygiene and digital marketing best practices. Continuously research relevant keywords opportunities and keep the content team up to date on these findings.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

One of the co-organisers of the MtP Engage conference in Hamburg (and a featured speaker at the Leadership Forum this year), she gave a talk a while back on Egoless Product Development. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In Japan, the food tech and nutritionally balanced food product industries didn’t exist and consumers weren’t familiar with the concept of the industry. That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. The latest batch of billion-dollar companies are built on high customer retention. They help their users be successful, and that means providing great onboarding. Most specifically, the industry came up with this beautiful idea of A/B testing.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

The only person in the room who is an expert on the customer’s context is the customer. If your customers don’t care that much about your product, then they’re not going to talk to you. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. It helps us to avoid falling in love with our product, requires research and promotes honesty. Using the rigour of a value proposition canvas to describe your organisation can help you to be honest with yourself: As a Tech Startup.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2019

One of the things I’ve recognised, in working with Product and Innovation folks, especially those that subscribe to an agile and lean methodology is that they kept skipping ‘research’, especially discovery research. And when they did validation research, they really just wanted to hear what they wanted to hear.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If you have feedback on this format, shoot me a tweet! Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck). For the a16z annual summit, I put together a presentation introducing myself and what I’m excited about in the consumer investing world. What’s next for marketplace startups?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

before founding a STEM startup. She joined us on the podcast to talk about designing for children, ensuring that parents are happy, and designing to ensure that your customers take pride in what they accomplish. Translating consumer insights into business innovation. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Let's take a quick look at the top product people, books, courses, and conferences you should check out this year. This could be the conference that changes everything for you.

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