Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In Japan, the food tech and nutritionally balanced food product industries didn’t exist and consumers weren’t familiar with the concept of the industry. That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. and company structure.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? Basically, the strategy is similar. Ultimately, this strategy works well when you're transferring roles within the same company because you have that built-in trust. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. ⤵️ What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies? Types of SaaS Growth 5 steps to scale SaaS Growth, regardless of your competitive strategy 1. What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. 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.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? Basically, the strategy is similar. Ultimately, this strategy works well when you're transferring roles within the same company because you have that built-in trust. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

Regardless of industry, a product manager must possess several core competencies to be successful. Each product manager role is defined by the size of the company, product type, industry, stage, and culture, which build on the competencies and emotional intelligence. These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

” But I work in startups. 30 days is a long time at a startup, so I would dispute that you should wait and do nothing for 30 days. In a startup environment, the clock’s is ticking. With the architects, I talked talked about how to manage and monitor tech debt, how to develop technical strategy in terms of scaling.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. crowd, or then there’s tonnes of these, and they probably already dominate the keywords for your industry. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

While startups need to move fast, getting everyone on board with the decisions that are being made is crucial to actually execute fast. I couldn’t fathom why not, especially since these problems would then be addressed months later, with similar strategies as I proposed but driven by somebody else. Move fast, but go together.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So there was a company who make all of the music that happens in between basketball games, that Dum Dum Dum Dum diddle diddle… And they were still quite big in the music industry. So that’s how we basically think about the industry. It was all too late.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Many of the world’s most successful startups have outsourced some of their work. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

There’s changing business strategies and changing talking with investors and changing market landscapes and the pandemic. ” I think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right? ” conversation.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? Our dedicated UX teams have successfully handled over 250 collaborations with clients from different industries worldwide. How to choose the best Sacramento web design company?

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Tldr; half of startups fail, and a small portion – 6% – make all of the money. It’s super fun.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. in Political Economy and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice On top of that, it offers digital design, development and branding strategy development. It is based in New York, with additional offices in San Francisco, Chicago, and London.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jared Feldman, Founder & CEO of Canvs At a fireside chat at Meetup HQ in New York City, Jared sat down with Greg Battle , Chief Product Officer at finance intelligence company, Laso to discuss Canvs products, the world of qualitative analytics, and what it takes to build a business dedicated to understanding the power of empathy.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Though it may not grab as many headlines or turn us into “influencers” in our respective industries, it builds the proper habits and work ethic to succeed in our current roles… and our next ones. Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO.

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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. In addition to this, our conversation also covers his time at Altassian and contrasts this with his G2 role, his thoughts on Google updates and how they impact his industry and his vision for the future of SEO.

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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 went for a lightweight strategy. We’re still a startup. Right now we’re available in about 150 countries.

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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 went for a lightweight strategy. We’re still a startup. Right now we’re available in about 150 countries.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. mass distribution, growth strategies).

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. mass distribution, growth strategies).

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. mass distribution, growth strategies).

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