Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. Why Do Most Startups Fail? No Market Need.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. You and your team may lack the knowledge or resources to execute it properly, leading to avoidance or superficial efforts.

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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. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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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. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups. The market, however, understood it differently.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. In fact, 83.9%

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. We have previously explained how automating organizational businesses can lower down the activity of the office team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. both in the short and long term. Here are the things that you must keep in mind before?—?and and during?—?the

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. According to CB Insights, this is 42% of startups.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? you’ll find hundreds of articles, most pointing to the same reasons: No market need Ran out of cash Team problems Pricing/product/business models issues Competition One small problem I have with these reasons. Truth needs to be told?—?startups Google it?—?you’ll

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

” Janna still finds she asks, and is asked about, the same thing whether she’s consulting, training, mentoring, or as a CEO. While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. Get team members to perform a series of tasks on each. ”, and “have you tried turning off and on again?”

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just playing part-time CPO and also part-time product manager) is a poor substitute for hiring the brilliant people we need.  Poor Dark blue: recruiting , candidate interviews, talent pipeline.

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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. Throughout the process, the operational teams converted from content operations to data operations, from automating processes to creating training data for the algorithms and monitoring relevant KPIs to ensure we are doing the right thing.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation. So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. What does the product mean to you?” Problem solved, or so I thought.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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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. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. The Kano model.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. Ethical frameworks for product development. *

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. For her, this is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Liam: For sure.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Organizations began looking to consultants to help them become more agile, and an entire Agile industry was born. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly. while the user name does have a unique id, the team and content do not. Why is this important?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. Since 2013, UX studio has been diligently working on helping rising startups and established companies create impactful digital products through intelligent design solutions. . Is there anything we can help you with? Jives Media.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. How to build an onboarding team.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Montreal is rife with burgeoning startups and midsized tech firms. A few years ago, after an 8-year stint working as a product manager for startups in Silicon Valley, Paul realized something about the tech organization ecosystem in his hometown of Montreal: many of them had poor product culture. Building Roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In the world of startups, there’s a truism that 9 out of 10 companies fail. But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 7, 2020

For four years, every six months during Obama’s second term, I brought a team to the White House to teach startup-type thinking to Obama’s administration.”. Janice is also a consultant to large corporations. Her consulting can turn into heavyweight projects, she says. “I It’s a big meaty project.”.

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