Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. Side Note: Does a Successful MVP Equal Product/Market Fit? A successful MVP shows you’ve got the tug of initial interest but it doesn’t show whether you can get your product to market.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

” Uri is dedicated to creating impactful startups that solve real-world problems and has seen everything from failure to moderate success to big success. This is the biggest driver of startup success. The ultimate measure of product-market fit is customer retention.

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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. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

3:23] What stage was the company in when the product was developed? We were an unfunded startup. We built the design and UI and product market fit. 5:30] Were you hired for a product management role? I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Most of the CEOs I work with, understand that the role of the product leader is very important. Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this Path to PM post, we discuss the importance of connecting with a product's users and the tough aspects of product management. Tell us about how you broke into product management. Before Pendo, I was a VP of product at Rally Software. I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Founders should be cautious about hiring product managers too early in the startup journey. Wait until after achieving product-market fit to avoid conflicts and unnecessary complexity in decision-making, especially if the founder remains the primary driver of product direction.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. It’s not a valuable a part of my day.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management? Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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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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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 15, 2021

“The two most important days for our startup in 2015 were spent at Business of Software (BoS). Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Don’t count the things you do. Do the things that count. If you don’t have time to go to this conference, make time.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Much of the success here depends on how competent and motivated the CTO and their team is. Average salary: $46,035/yr.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. 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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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. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. Here are my 4 key takeaways: 1.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 2, 2021

He’s co-founder/CEO of his fourth startup, Thread. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Kieran is probably a serial entrepreneur – he founded his first business aged 15, (sold age 19 for $1.25m), his second and third were also acquired.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

From her vast product experience, Laura understands the challenges and benefits of identifying the most impactful practices in product-led management and growth in SaaS. Product-led growth isn’t just for startups. Supercharge your growth by putting product at the center of your growth strategy.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

Product managers also need to have an in-depth understanding of the organization’s operation and need social capital to inform the success of the product. Social awareness creates product managers who can provide customers with a reliable product that meets their needs and informs the product-market fit.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Source: Peter Yang on X Specific tactics Building a great product is more art than science, but there are tools that early-stage companies (and larger companies launching additional products) can use to measure and improve their product-market fit (PMF). This offers a fast track to boosting your PMF Score.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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. Creating a customer base that loves, and trusts, your product and company enough to leverage their word of mouth is the golden nugget to SaaS growth.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So I’m here to tell you some things that companies do that really irritate designers so you can learn from their mistakes and you can succeed in hiring and retaining talent in this really competitive market. And he’s talking about tech altogether. So a lot of this talk is applicable to your tech hires. It was absolutely brilliant.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. I realize we can’t fight the trends in the talent market, but it is dangerous. and during?—?the

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

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. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are essentially three ways for a product manager to work, and I argue only one of them leads to success: They can escalate every issue and decision up to the CEO. There are more than 1 billion Macs and PC’s running Office around the world. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Previously, he was at HubSpot as Chief Product Officer after they acquired his company Performable. ML : So Drift aside which of your four startup are you most proud of. ML : Fantastic.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. I like to learn. So I go to some conferences and teach myself.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

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. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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