Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

Since then, he’s taken on product management, managing the marketing website, SEO strategy, and analytics. He’s passionate about product and obsessed with making useful easy-to-use tools. We built the design and UI and product market fit. 5:30] Were you hired for a product management role?

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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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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. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). So let’s dive in.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dashboard clutter – the addition of more KPIs over time – leads to strategy clutter. Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). Omg right?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This insight is crucial for creating products that resonate and for leading teams effectively. Companies with strong product-market fit can thrive despite internal chaos, while well-run companies may struggle if they don’t solve a real customer need. Operational excellence doesn’t guarantee success.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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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. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. What’s your preferred organization model for product folks?”

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 3, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

A CPO always aligns product features with the company’s vision and the consumer’s needs. As a result, the CPO can facilitate product-led growth by developing a vision and strategy that fosters seamless production. Developing product vision. Product marketing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Where to find Vlad Loktev: • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Vlad’s background ( 02:54 ) Reflecting on transformative years at Airbnb ( 04:28 ) Skills and mindsets for success ( 11:03 ) Impact-driven mindset ( 13:16 ) Saying no and inquiry before advocacy ( 17:54 ) “Poking the bear” ( (..)

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career. 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.

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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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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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StubHub

OCTOBER 17, 2019

6 Things to know about Arnie Katz By Arnie Katz, Chief Product & Technology Officer The role of a Chief Technology Officer can mean different things for different companies. A CTO can be the person leading engineering and product. I owe my career to product. Come join us.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

Tell us about how you broke into product management. Before Pendo, I was a VP of product at Rally Software. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. I had frankly never heard of the role of product management at that time. I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

She realized that the strategy for marketing the product changed, as did their field of competition. . When April recounted what transpired, she asked the professor, “If my product can be positioned in multiple different market categories, how do I know which is the best one? .”

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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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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

In light of this, we wanted to see if we could uncover other reasons why — by finding out exactly how various product managers lead standups. 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?”

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2022

Asses Product-Market Fit before sunsetting a product. Numbers and data are important – but talking to customers and gathering feedback can provide you with a new page on your product’s sunsetting story. Is it that there’s no product-marketing fit, or that you’ve spent too much time working on the wrong things?

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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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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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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He spent the past decade as a VC and product leader helping world-class companies like Faire, Quizlet, and Ibotta accelerate their growth. This strategy always had flaws, and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) restrictions have only made it harder. This makes products less sticky and retention more difficult.

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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. Upcoming Events.

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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.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dashboard clutter – the addition of more KPIs over time – leads to strategy clutter. Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). Omg right?

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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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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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

. : defining and delivering the right products by empowering teams with clarity on problems—problems to be solved either in the product or its promotion. . However, what one organization calls product management, another calls product marketing. for future products and services, Planning.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

12 things about product-market fit. I really love this post because most PMs struggle to conceptualize product-market fit, since it varies from product to product. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. It’s a compelling and non-BS answer relevant for PMs at any sized-company.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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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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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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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organized by Product School, these events only started in 2018 with San Francisco and quickly gained momentum in the community to expand to four additional U.S. These events feature fantastic talks on topics ranging from experimentation to cognitive biases to product-market fit all delivered by the who’s who of top technology companies.

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