Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. What is Product Management? 2019: "I'm going to get my MBA so I can be a product manager." What are you even doing there?

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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.

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Product Culture

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my early product jobs was at a startup with money and the CEO's exciting vision. That's where a smart product person's strategy comes in: narrowing focus to a few key things we can do well, and getting alignment from all the stakeholders. Europe, Africa, Americas September 21-24 daytime

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In my last blog, we talked about being a PM in a Startup and PM at a Scale-Up. As a Product Manager in a corporate, you’ll have access to a wealth of resources in the forms of research, data, brainpower, time, and money. Use insights, data, and forecasts to build your product strategy.

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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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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

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 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 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 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

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. I mentioned here a sales deck that the company gives its salespeople, but in many startups, salespeople are expected to create their own decks, at least initially.

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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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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

This entails studying the frameworks and approaches that product managers favor over others to ensure the smooth running of all processes across cross-functional product teams. Step 2: Become a Certified Technical Product Manager Obtaining a certificate in product management is not enough to become a SaaS product manager.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 24, 2023

Product Ops is the behind-the-scenes function that streamlines the journey from a product idea to its delivery in the market. Imagine a team that aligns your product strategy with your business goals, fosters communication between different teams, and sifts through data to provide valuable insights.

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Bain Public

APRIL 12, 2021

Canada has all the ingredients to nurture successful companies into the future — with ample support for startups that need a hand in reaching their potential. Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal) to excel as startup hubs. Product management of course. Product Managers in the Tech Ecosystem. What is it, you ask?

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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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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, Who am I building for?,

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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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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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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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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s hard to get stakeholders fist-pumping over things like… be the market leader execute the most payment transactions pay more employees than all other payroll systems combined to be the leading provider of… to make the best product in [category] If your product vision resembles any of the above, you won’t be feeling the love from any direction.

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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 Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

How do these people get into product? Strategies to switch into product management. Associate Product Management (APM) programs. Eventually, he takes up product work on the side, and makes the switch full time. Work at a startup. How hard it is to switch into product is an easy start. Don’t have any?

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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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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Our virtual workshop series provides actionable strategies, tools, processes, and skills product leaders need to create innovations, adapt to market shifts, and anticipate what’s next. Targeted to startups, scale-ups or SMB organizations It takes place over 12 weeks, live via Google Meet. Live Course led by Paul Ortchanian.

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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. Final Thoughts.

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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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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 24, 2018

Focusing on what matters most and why is a critical key to success for any business/product and this intense focus is ever more important in a startup with limited resources and where time to market is a matter of life and death for the company. Why is defining and communicating your product/ business model formula necessary?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

When I open my car’s hood, I see many things, but I have no idea what they are, how they should work, and of course, I’m unable to identify what went wrong in case of a problem. Of course, if there is a problem, they will be much better at identifying where it comes from and fixing it accordingly.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals? Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2017

These Entrepreneurial Leaders need new skills and a different mindset, because ideas like Good and Progress look very different in a startup than they do in the core business. This requires small, cross-functional, 100% dedicated startup teams who are tasked with hunting high-value customer problems to solve. Prepare for Change.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 13, 2022

If you're new to product management, this type of work won't help you accelerate your growth to thinking about products more holistically. Anton decided to instead find work at a startup and improve his product management skills. Eventually, you'll grow into a larger and larger product team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2020

Communicating product strategy and vision. Here are some effective methods you can use to become a product manager… Solve problems for your current employer. If you already work in SaaS, particularly at an early-stage startup, then you know how often people have to take on extra work. Learn about product management.

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Innovatemap

JULY 12, 2021

But a company model that encompasses the services of many of those partners may offer a more transformative approach: a digital product agency. Of course, the word “agency” can sometimes exclusively conjure thoughts of marketing. Meaning: people aren’t hiring a digital product agency to simply develop a logo.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I write a lot about product strategy, and use Netflix as an example so that others can learn from the company’s success and failure. I often highlight that half of Netflix’s high-level product strategies fail in order to help product leaders to understand how hard it is to launch and grow startups.

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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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