Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. These tools mostly show initiatives.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

AI empowers businesses to craft more impactful marketing campaigns by utilizing data analytics for content personalization and market trend forecasting, thereby significantly enhancing campaign relevance and effectiveness. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s episode is with Adrian McDermott, CTO of Zendesk. In addition to sharing his perspective on the role of competition in product strategy, he also offers up his definition of a truly great product. Adrian started at the company back in 2010, when they were only 50 employees. We end on team building and recruiting.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. Also known as the Director of Product or VP of Product, the chief product officer leads the product management team, which consists of product managers with varying levels of responsibility.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts. How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. So let’s dive in.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Drawing upon a rich vein of experiences — from leadership roles in engineering to insightful albeit brief stints as a founder and CTO and steering roles focusing on morphing concepts into market-ready products — my tenure in this vibrant ecosystem has been incredible.

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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”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 14, 2024

For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Over the past year we have introduced new products, like our bot Operator and our live chat solution for sales and marketing teams, and new levels of automation and intelligence to help do this. This is just the start, we will be building out new products here and in all of our offices.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

April Dunford sat in the back of a marketing class at Northwestern University in Chicago, where her professor gave an example of a product positioning statement. She realized that the strategy for marketing the product changed, as did their field of competition. . It isn’t your viewpoint on the market. .

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Revulytics

JUNE 12, 2019

Organizations considering a software compliance analytics strategy should keep this in mind as they seek to build consensus for a program. Selling your entire c-suite on a compliance intelligence strategy is crucial to realizing its full benefits. Build a program that will continue to demonstrate value. The business advantage is clear.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy. Marty advocates for a return to the traditional product model, where product leaders concentrate on strategy, and product managers drive discovery and deliver solutions that generate value for both customers and the business.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. But is that the right strategy for your business?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. 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? What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies?

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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. Without a Product Strategy, you Won’t Know When to Walk Away.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. I realize we can’t fight the trends in the talent market, but it is dangerous.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role? considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. The product strategy in a product company is not the strategy of the product department. and crosses all domains.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the significant role of data analytics in driving e-commerce business growth and discuss effective strategies for leveraging this invaluable resource. This understanding helps optimize product offerings, personalize customer experiences, and improve marketing campaigns.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Since then, he’s taken on product management, managing the marketing website, SEO strategy, and analytics. We were an unfunded startup.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

As a result, its product team plays a central role in strategy and decision-making. Product-led growth is a business strategy in which a company uses its product as the main tool to acquire customers. In the process, it may get disconnected from the market it is serving. Understanding these distinctions is important.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

Additionally, implementing guest engagement platforms and smart room technologies enables guests to control in-room amenities and services effortlessly. This data can be leveraged to provide personalized experiences, targeted marketing campaigns, and tailored offerings.

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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. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Bain Public

MARCH 6, 2023

Paul then jumped in with his own similar experience with a CTO where he was disregarded and sent down rabbit holes chasing more data and more interviews with customers, when all the CTO was really doing was trying to buy time, which burned the bridge of trust.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They monopolized the summer & fall to double down on their client efforts, market strategy and planning for new features for the next set of cities they targeted in 2023. Blaise Transit , a Bain Public client, recently announced new business updates that demonstrates their ongoing success and perseverance in the industry.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 3, 2021

Joel shares his thoughts on the three important things that set number one in a market apart from the rest. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. To The Being Number One Talk Page. Simplicity vs Value in Software Development. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

It is a powerful tool to inform your strategy and monitor your progress. The Strategy Cycle. A Wardley map helps you navigate your way through the strategy cycle learning about your environment and the constantly changing forces that affect it – including your own actions. This involves thought and discussion, often endlessly.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups.

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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. Lean into your newness.

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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. 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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Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

But just because Benn tells me his writing isn’t “useful” in the ways that most content marketing strategies would hope for, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer business value alongside its obvious entertaining and edifying values. You’re a company founder and a CTO. This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.”

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She will share some of her experiences in helping to shape and scale a successful commercial strategy that has meant the company has grown incredibly quickly; from the outset, the intention was to establish a reputation in a key market before applying its AI know-how to other challenges, such as risk or compliance.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines. Here are some partial strategies: Recognize this dynamic as fundamental and systematic — at least for enterprise software.  

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

We asked four product leaders: “Outside of the popular tips and techniques experts recommend — what are your best strategies for how you lead daily standups?” I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. These can be things related to the product or the strategy?—?for for example, we are working on a plan to enter a new market?—?or My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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