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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do. If you are only beginning, it’s clear why.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

That’s why they also have to take in feedback and requests regarding the product strategy and product development process. Strategy Software product managers also have to work on the product strategy by bringing the product vision to light. Therefore, it’s best to also do a tech-related course.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

That is why every product-based company invests in data science products too. Meanwhile, dedicated startups have come up with new ways to incorporate data science. Associate Product Manager The start of most product management careers is the associate product manager role.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One of the best outcomes is of course the networking that happened during these three days. I got to meet 50 great product coaches from all over Europe, and of course, got to meet and connect with Marty and his partners. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked. They are all absolutely amazing.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Problems yearn for solutions, needs long to be met, and markets are waiting to be addressed. This reality beckons startups and established firms to introduce new products that will scratch that itch and deliver satisfaction. Knowing when you don’t have product-market fit is simple.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Thus, here are some AI courses to kickstart your journey.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. For most people and during the regular course of things, focus means making sure you are working on the important things, and saying no to anything else. You need to have a product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Great marketing people can’t always market well either. They need your help in the form of a clear value proposition and product strategy. There is one thing that they usually don’t have prior knowledge of: your product. They might, occasionally, but you can’t let your success depend on that. Guess what?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. The PMHQ Product Manager Course teaches you the skills you need to lead projects to successful conclusions.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Are you curious to learn the top finance product manager skills recruiters are looking for? Finance PMs occupy a unique position within the world of product management. Since finance PMs are responsible for a specific niche of products, recruiters who scout for them look for a particular set of skills in candidates.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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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.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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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. For example, your title can be Senior Product Manager but you are actually required to do product leadership much more than product management (for example if you are the only product person in a startup).

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Each episode is filled with real-world insights from practicing product managers and leaders, allowing you to learn, apply, and succeed in your product management career. To bring your product strategy to light, every product must be validated for product-market fit, prior to launch, and through successive iterations.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

How do these people get into product? Strategies to switch into product management. Associate Product Management (APM) programs. Many great PM’s that I have met used this strategy unintentionally. Here’s a few examples of career paths that start in a related role and work their way to product.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

When you consider the ideal customer profile, you need to get yourself into your customers’ world and deeply understand what they need to go through before they are ready to buy your product. They take an opportunity to grow in their career, say as the CPO of a startup or as a Director in a larger company. 50 people or so?—?the

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

It’s Not About the Plumbing When we work with startups it’s usually a long-term relationship. We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Unfortunately, many of these things – designed to accelerate growth or the appearance of growth at all costs – are taken for truths in the world of software startups, where a focus on fundamentals and sustainable growth is needed more than ever. Product/market fit is always in flux, no matter how disciplined the company is.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. The meeting point of company and product strategy. Des: Welcome to Intercom on Product.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Of course today Facebook solves different problems and the world is no longer the same. This point is so important that I want to emphasize it once more: you can educate the market to use your product if the potential customers have a strong unmet need that your product can answer. But features never start at that.

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Innovatemap

JULY 21, 2021

Josh hired us to get the idea to market, develop his product’s brand, and enable product marketing, but he also wanted a sounding board with a diversity of opinions and ideas. This equips our team to harness the right opportunities for startups like Boost. Piyush said, “of course Boost should be a thing.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Before I take a dive into these different product management specializations you should be looking at when building up your product team , it’s worth noting that at their very core, all product managers have the same set of responsibilities and skills. Innovation Product Manager.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course I love all of our episodes equally – but I wanted to grab a deep cut for my pick. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. 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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, it would have been ideal to find someone who had had both extensive experience and amazing learning abilities, but there’s a reason unicorns are so rare. Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As markets mature, the competitive landscape gets crowded. Industry veterans and startups quickly try to stand out in an already clustered SaaS market. It takes more than just keeping up with the competition on product comparison checklists to stay relevant. Killer features for niche markets.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

He is very interested in investment and innovations in the product sphere, writing on Medium and Twitter about these and other tech transformations. Andrew Chen is currently a consumer startup investor, but in his long career he has been Director of Product Marketing, Co-Founder of a startup and then Growth leader at Uber.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. Don’t worry, you are still needed.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

this was the creation of the Product Owner role. When I created the Product Owner role, I gave it more responsibility for product strategy and revenue generation than a Product Manager. I specifically pulled the best Product Manager Easel Corporation had out of Product Marketing and retrained him.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

How would you feel if you could no longer use our products? This is a question used in product-market fit surveys. Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback. IDEA : The Lean Startup movement generated new and valuable ideas in product development. Olsen argues that high-level concepts and familiarity with Lean will not result in true success in the startup world.

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DISQO

AUGUST 14, 2015

Ken Norton’s weekly newsletter, Bringing the Donuts , is about startups and product management. Product Psychology. Produced by Nir Eyal , Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products, Product Psychology is an email course covering all things user behavior. Product Buff.

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