The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. They are all reasons the founders mentioned when asked to tell why their startups failed. As if that is the problem and solution to most startup problems.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I remember when a CTO asked me for a more detailed, solution-oriented roadmap. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? Because I knew that the company would deliver better outcomes if a cross-functional team of designers, developers, and customers started together instead of me taking a stab at it alone. I resisted.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Todd has been tinkering and doodling since he was four years old.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. At least quarterly, ask your product development leadership how they would rank what they could go back and improve on based on known behavior. Ask More Questions.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. What helped you develop your product management career given that you weren’t in a formal PM role? Honestly, it was that book that really helped me develop a lot of my thinking around it.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

P - Program: The position is centered on developing and executing technical business programs. For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Today’s organizations are heavily dependent on modern technologies. TPMs must be capable of making strategic technical decisions.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. On the flip side, that’s also just a very crappy user experience.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. On the flip side, that’s also just a very crappy user experience.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

Having product vision paired with development expertise is a rare combo, and product managers should make it their job to work as closely as possible with these individuals. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. It’ll be good for your team, as well as your own personal career development.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He writes, he tweets, he regularly speaks at conferences, and with 31,000 Twitter followers (not to mention 26,000 followers to his Medium blog ), he’s a prolific and consistent voice in the study and development of the product management craft. Ironically, John isn’t part of the teams that develop Amplitude’s products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

When the biggest problem Product Managers face is setting roadmap priorities based on market feedback, it’s symptomatic of the underlying practices and tools. Reason #1: The Path to PM Tech Product Managers who develop their skills as Engineering Leaders. A second path to PM is people who develop their skills as Project Managers.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. From there, Chris became involved in startups. ”I was their first paying customer.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

Analytic Tools 60

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). A development team empowered to deliver the product vision based on agreed objectives. Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. Experience : continue to develop the learning experience. The Roadmap.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. First, some context.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. Business has changed. CEOs need to change too. But what does a CEO need?

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Bob founded The Re-Wired Group, which helps clients learn how to innovate and improve product development practices. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Planning the design and development of new products or features. Working with teams to develop new products or features. You plan for the future and participate in the details of product design and development. Product Managers (PM) are responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition of a product or product line.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Engineering leaders must do 2 things: a) execute and deliver high-quality software on a predictable schedule, and b) have the people skills to attract, retain and develop strong talent. On a small scale, we invite people to the office, and we do user interviews.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. Dharmesh Shah , CTO of HubSpot, encourages startup SaaS businesses to pay attention to what their customers are doing and cater to what can make them successful. Social JTBD.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5 9 Dear Product Roadmap, I’m Breaking Up with You. Mind the Product published this article on why prioritizing is one of the most critical aspects of your product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. Kevin: Yeah.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

We’d all transitioned to working from home instead of being in the office and figuring that out. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right? Ellen: Then we also started introducing outcomes to our priority roadmap. Teresa: Was that the way it was? Where did it go from there?

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is very common in large companies, and in this model, the product manager is really a project manager and roadmap administrator. Camille went on to join the YouTube team, and then lead product at London-based Hailo, and now I’m very happy to say that she’s the new CEO of NYC-based startup, Kit.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

It’s like one thing that we have that an analytics startup doesn’t have is tens of thousands of customers who are giving us that input all the time. Sometimes people will talk about competitors and people are like, “Oh I wonder what’s on their roadmap.” And that’s proprietary information.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

It’s like one thing that we have that an analytics startup doesn’t have is tens of thousands of customers who are giving us that input all the time. Sometimes people will talk about competitors and people are like, “Oh I wonder what’s on their roadmap.” And that’s proprietary information.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey. I know it’s very much antithetical to the way for example, for example, like lean development or lean startup, or you know, the adult or agile runs, but we just have a very different point of view on it that like, if you want to get real feedback, you got to give people the real thing.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

It’s not just about designers even though I’m talking about designers because I’m a designer – this is a quote from Lever, you know the startup that deals with like recruitment. And he’s talking about tech altogether. So a lot of this talk is applicable to your tech hires. This is very very difficult to do.

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