The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. No Market Need.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Startups looking to advertise on TikTok should begin by establishing an organic presence, testing content, and then gradually transitioning to targeted ads. It’s important to maintain high hiring standards even when facing intense pressure to scale quickly.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

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.” Identify their challenges, features that spark their interest, and solutions that can be rapidly tested.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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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. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Product teams can then execute by building, testing, and deploying products to achieve the desired outcome. Founders should be cautious about hiring product managers too early in the startup journey. Be discerning about product management advice.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. Startup teams tie themselves in knots considering how they’ll collect the right data from an MVP. But building a piece of software that is good enough to test on users is a huge job. It’s an acronym that can be used as a weapon. What can we Learn? This is wasted effort.

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Basel Fakhoury

MAY 17, 2018

So instead of jumping head first into building a new product, we committed to a full range of user research to systematically test our most promising ideas. We figured 3 weeks would be enough to choose among ideas, but we ultimately spent 3 (super nerve-wracking) months testing 8–10 different product concepts.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. It’s not very common for startups in Japan to pursue the global market. Now, here are the insights we gathered from our interview with Michael Rosenzweig. Although they launched in the U.S.,

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. In the evolution of a startup, the founders initially do whatever they can themselves. But many of them don’t fully understand how, exactly, it is important.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Liam: I’ve read a lot about difficulties in startups becoming SOC 2 Compliant.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. Attend or listen in on a discovery interview and a usability test to hear, first-hand, what customers are saying about your space and products. What should they uncover?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

We chose these particular standard technologies, or boring technologies, because over time these are the technologies that are the safest and fastest for us to use. They’re really battle tested, well trained, well understood and well supported. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. They're testing me." Subscribe now Looking back over your work life, what leaders stand out to you? They're not.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 10, 2018

However, when I talk to other entrepreneurs or startup folks, most of them ask: “Isn’t Intercom just a chat app? To improve upon this, we implemented Intercom, which has a pretty awesome startup plan for just $49/m. We run both entire businesses through the platform. Aren’t there lots of those out there?”. Unique use cases.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

We were an unfunded startup. I really wanted to do it full-time and a friend of mine was Badger’s CTO so he brought me on. Early on, the CTO and I had a very close working relationship. We’re now doing test-driven development and more traditional product management. It works in a browser or on a phone. [3:23]

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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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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

Learning from user testing. Outside of the organization, these skills also work to encourage loyal customers to enter into beta testing for a feature or convince a target customer to try a stealth product. Startup: Product managers in startups may be tasked with pricing, support, marketing, and possibly sales.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There are time-tested ways to accomplish this, including traditional open innovation, incubators, and startups. Often, the schools are not very different from a technical perspective but can vary widely in terms of corporate relations and technology licensing offices. Another approach is a partner program.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup. Head of Product or Product Director. Certifications.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Every time we create a feature, we make a post announcing what that feature is, how to use it, and how to test it. ” 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. Nick: Totally.

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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. That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO. I would then work with the CTO to incorporate their suggestions and improvements.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow. It stresses and frustrates your team.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

He says you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests (RAT) instead because “there is no need to build more than what’s required to test your largest unknown.” He also was the CEO of his own Android startup, Cover which has now been acquired by Twitter. Author: Teresa Torres. Author: Todd Jackson.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Test Your Assumptions Before Writing Code An important part of growing a startup is understanding the market. A way to do that is to test assumptions. There is often a trade-off between speed and assumption testing. If it’s an assumption, it does not matter, until you can prove it works by testing it on users.”

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Teresa: Was that the way it was?

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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. That’s an acid test we’ve always had for our principles. Chasing free customer acquisition.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

For the sake of the story and easier understanding, imagine that you and I are building a startup. Testimonial: /?test??m??ni?l/ l/ a formal written statement about the qualities of a product or service. I’ve organized my explanation into three parts: Introducing an example. Testimonial anatomy. Reverse engineering.

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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? In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few. Design is how it works.”.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

The Lean Startup movement put particular emphasis on throwing out hypothesis to test with data. So more startups are ramping up the sales learning curve. By sharing decision rights with your CTO you may find yourself making plans based on more realistic effort estimates and a collaborative vision set with both the Why and How.

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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’re still a startup. We invite them to the office, we talk to them. Sometimes we test new features with them.

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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’re still a startup. We invite them to the office, we talk to them. Sometimes we test new features with them.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. We have to basically succeed by delivering disruptive differentiated technology because there’s no way we’ll win on cash – the US always wins on cash.

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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. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely.

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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.". One of many tests they tried was to move to a subscription service.

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