Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy. Feature teams focus on delivering output, while empowered product teams focus on solving problems and delivering outcomes. Founders should be cautious about hiring product managers too early in the startup journey.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to the product leader (in early-stage startups it is often even the same person as the hands-on product manager), they still see the importance of the role in the orchestration of the product execution. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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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. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users. Common Characteristics.

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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. There will be unequaled thought-leaders and actionable strategies mixed with child-like joy. Get in, everyone.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at 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.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

PMs typically work alongside many different roles and departments, especially engineering, design, sales, and marketing. Product managers are tasked with providing these teams with data-driven insights and suggestions regarding a company's product(s). They will represent the PMs working under them in high-level meetings.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

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. . Here are four sets of challenges that are different from managing individual products: [1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. [2]

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

To understand product ops, it might be helpful to look at another similar discipline: marketing operations. ” I believe that the same definition can easily be applied to product ops. .” ” I believe that the same definition can easily be applied to product ops.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

One of their main and most important responsibilities, however, is to hire and develop very strong product managers and nurture their function within the organization. Pivoting is really just changing the company’s strategies and tactics when there is evidence that the current strategy isn’t working.

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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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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

It is a lean group of high achievers: Engineering and Product team members average over 10 years of relevant experience, carry deep domain knowledge, and have followed Mickey through multiple companies. Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success have found viral traction in just a year in-market. This is a team that’s kicking butt.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

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. thinking_face: Let’s say a company’s marketing sucks. the VP Marketing… See my point? What might be missing?

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 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. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

There are many ways to describe Product Management, but what each description has in common is that Product Management is: A broad function and discipline. Responsible for delivering value to the market. The gravitational force for all product related knowledge. Working with teams to develop new products or features.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Coaching and mentorship play a significant part in the success of startups - it allows them to transform and excel in their market and industry. At Bain Public , we believe a great product should be the first focus of every startup. It’s a combination of skills that lead to building great products. Are you a product manager?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable!

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market. However, Marc argues that it’s actually market knowledge (or “user empathy”) that’s likely the determining factor for your startup.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

In the time that I’d been with the company over the previous number of years, we had iterated on how to do product roadmap discussions as our company grew from 5 when I started to 40, 50, 60 people and growing the engineering team and trying out different ways to have the “What do we work on next?” Product strategy board.

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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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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base. The CIO or CTO may not be the budget holder, but they may control the purchasing decision. Therefore, you need to address these concerns in your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That just blows my mind. Here’s Rachel.

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Gainsight

JULY 1, 2022

Increasing investments make it easier than ever to launch a new business, but the proliferation of new products in the market means it has never been more challenging to achieve growth. A traditional model based on the marketing and sales funnel no longer works effectively to build sustainable growth for subscription-based SaaS.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2020

The needs of the users evolve, business stakes evolve, the market evolves and everything happens very fast. A good PM knows how to constantly keep an eye on these changes and analyse them in order to take the right decisions and build a product that is relevant. Just the same, PMs are swimming in ever-changing waters.

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