The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. Julian Dunn is a senior product manager with Chef Software where he. About Julian Dunn.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

As companies mature, so does their understanding of how strategic research drives product innovation and customer satisfaction. For early-stage teams, this data is a wake-up call: underfunding research can mean missed insights, wasted development cycles, and slow product-market fit. Is your leadership aligned with your strategy?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. I’m having to manage upwards to get the support to take the team on the journey towards accelerated product strategizing but I am creating enemies. I got this message as part of a Facebook discussion on the role of the product leader. I am burning out.”

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Paul is a member of the Boston Product Management Association, Boston CTO Club, the Boston-NY CTO HIT Club, co-founder of the Boston Jewish Outdoors Club and product management consultant. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb, and Gap. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Kim Goodwin, VP Product & UX at Patients Like Me.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Meet Ellen Brandenberger , a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. We’re excited to share that we’ve added yet another instructor to the Product Talk roster. Meet Ellen Brandenberger, a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Miro has made the move from product to platform. Like numerous users, I first became aware of Miro via a consultant and this channel has been really important to their growth story. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. Andrey: We bet on consultants.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Switching costs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. In my last piece, I discussed many of the tools that product leaders have for building a customer-obsessed culture. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. Product leadership deals with so many unknowns, that the absolute truth is not reachable in most cases.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. Throughout our career as product people, working well with others was probably one of the most effective skills we all had to master. They both participate in all of our sessions.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. the structure of the word.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 23, 2021

Product managers often spend time putting out other people’s fires rather than putting out products. We wonder if we’ve planned the right products. Our titles are a mess—what one company calls a product manager, another calls a program manager or a product marketing manager.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Enjoy the B2B Product Manager December issue. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Why Storytelling Skills For Product Management & Product Marketing Are Essential for Success. Product Management Playbook. Evolving to Product-Led Growth in 5 Steps. View the magazine. In This Issue.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

For more from Jacob, check out his free LinkedIn profile analysis tool , which just went live on Product Hunt today, his interview preparation report service, and his individual consulting services at ThinkWarwick Global. ” and “Whose opinion does the leadership team value most?” Understand what drives them.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. thepaintedsquare from Unsplash As a board member at ProductX  — the largest product conference in Israel — I met last week with a guest speaker to prepare his talk at the upcoming conference. Summaries are a very powerful leadership tool.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it! just as you would do with anything else related to product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. The ones who talk to customers for hours a day.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

When I participated in the live discussions about the same topics, I realized that some of the gaps are due to perspective: So many of the companies I work with (either the few that I am personally consulting to, or among the CPO Bootcamp participants) are startups or scaleups, and only a small number are larger corporations. Stay tuned.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Think it through and consult with others.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

As a product leader, is this a skill you already master? was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. Still, he was one of the best hires I made in this area and he turned out to be a product star.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Lea has deep passion for product and mentoring product teams regardless of where they are in their own transformation, and recently joined Marty Cagan as a Partner in the Silicon Valley Product Group. Scott is a bestselling author and popular speaker on creativity, philosophy, leadership and culture. Scott Berkun, Author.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

Most product managers are driven to achieve excellence in their craft. Many, however, get stuck in what I call “product consultant” mode and cannot break out of it. Many product managers never get to launch a product, let alone own one. Steve Jobs’ Take on Consulting.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services.

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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. Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels When I first started my consulting business , I attended a sales coaching workshop.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

that you actually get to consider the product?—?the As part of my consulting services , I listen to many sales calls that my customers have with their potential customers. One of the most common mistakes is to jump right to the product without discussing the problem and the innovative approach that your solution brings.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2020

At Bain Public , we help build roadmaps and innovative products for early-stage companies. As a product management consultant, he acts as a coach and a mentor to his clients, providing them with frameworks that guide them toward making the best product decisions. How, you ask? Addressing the Day-to-Day Challenges.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Theoretically you would think that a consulting business isn’t impacted by the time of the year, but I learned that that’s not true. Since I deal with strategic consulting , many companies reach out to me when they start to think about next year, which happens sometimes in H2. Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I recently realized that for founders, I might need to refrain from using the word ‘product’ since they then think about the deliverable while my coaching tackles much more than that. So my recent pitch went something like “I help founders connect the product to the business and the go-to-market.”

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