The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny ’s N ewsletter: Top 5 recommendations Started in 2019 as an experiment, Lenny’s Newsletter now has over 670,000 subscribers. Once a month (and each week for paid subscribers), Lenny answers reader questions related to product, growth, and career advancement. He later branched into hosting podcasts , called Lenny’s Podcast.

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Gainsight

JULY 1, 2022

Instead, companies are searching for ways to successfully maximize customer lifetime value by lowering Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and improving Net Revenue Retention (NRR)—but do so without drastically increasing spending with high-touch resources. Make the product itself a key player in the customer lifecycle and experience. .

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

How do you define your product strategy? Product strategy begins with figuring out exactly what kind of user that you want to serve and what use case that you want to serve for them. That’s still big enough to get you your next increment of growth as a company and growth in your user base.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s start by defining the distinctions between three concepts: Product-Led Organization Product-Led Growth Product-Centric Organization A product-led organization is a business that makes its products the vehicle for acquiring and retaining customers, driving growth, and influencing organizational priorities.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A CMO/VP Marketing with strong messaging and promotional chops can spend full time getting the world interested in us.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sprig —Build a product people love • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Vanta —Automate compliance. — Marty Cagan is a luminary in the world of product. Be discerning about product management advice. Simplify security.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. Here are my best tips.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Intercom was created out of an epiphany in a small Dublin coffee shop because we realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing business online just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Paul Adams: Let’s not do this again and then have a retro to learn the same thing we’ve already learned five times.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

It also has a specific connotation with an associate product manager (APM)program, which is a common rotational apprenticeship program in larger companies like Google and Facebook. Junior Product Manager. A junior product manager is also new to the role, but doesn’t require as much hands-on training as an associate product manager.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. .

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

An admin might create a user on the web console and then that user logs in on the mobile app and then they send a message through to other members of their group. There’s a lot of thinking about the different components of the product as we’re building new solutions. Teresa: Who are your typical customers?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. And the timing couldn’t be more urgent.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Going from concept to production and subsequently getting the product in the hands of a customer takes significant effort. The problem occurs when the organization intends to scale or switch to production from a beta. recurring subscriptions, troubleshooting) and in some capacity as a customer success team.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It will be the product adventure of a lifetime. We are gearing up to support you in accelerating your product strategies and provide the tools you’ll need to level up your career in product. If you have been fortunate enough to attend any of our Pulse events, you know you can expect a world-class experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. It is also about the same time that working with R&D becomes more intense , so a lot of project management is needed.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2020

I did it for almost 15 years now and during this time my passion kept growing both for dancing and for product management. Even though these 2 activities seem very different, I feel there are a lot of things dancers and Product Managers have in common. So take all the time necessary to do it.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is part 1 of our 12-part series “This is Product-Led,” inspired by our conference for Gainsight PX users, Pulse for Product. But unlike the makers of all those old arcade games, you have to put users’ needs first. Pressed for time, they ship things that don’t quite work, and then move on.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users. Rahul Vohra, SuperHuman: The product market fit engine How to drive product strategy and growth by understanding who your most profitable customers are and what they value.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. But the actual work of product strategy is neither straightforward nor glamorous, and often leaves ample room for misaligned expectations.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Better Products. Better Product People. Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

One question that surfaced a number of times: as a company that’s branded around Customer Success, what is Gainsight doing to preserve Aptrinsic’s high velocity and orientation towards Product? The question behind the question is: “The Aptrinsic product, team, and message resonates with me. You can see the postings here.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

.” I believe that the same definition can easily be applied to product ops. You could, therefore, define product ops as follows: “Product ops builds a foundation for excellence by reinforcing product strategy with metrics, infrastructure, business processes, best practices, budgeting, and reporting.”

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. Delighting customers and creating innovative solutions for their problems dictates our priorities. But this single-minded focus on helping others often leads to a lack of focus on ourselves and our career impact in the product field. To your company?

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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.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As product management becomes such an in-demand, lucrative career option, companies are carving out markets with offerings that enhance a product manager’s job to build and optimize customer-centric products. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. X4 The Experience Management Summit, Salt Lake City, UT.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. I help build the platform where our users explore the data they send to us. What do you do at Amplitude?

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