The Product Guy

APRIL 18, 2025

What if building what customers ask for is the reason your product is failing? In this episode, Drew Falkman walks us through the evolution of his product discovery mindsetfrom sketching solutions on a whiteboard with no customer input, to learning (the hard way) why even listening too literally can lead you astray.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

This means that even when startup founders are motivated to test their ideas, they are more likely to notice the evidence that suggests their idea is fantastic and miss the evidence that suggests their idea is flawed. He began reading books like The Lean Startup by Eric Ries and The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank.

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Piyanka Jain

JANUARY 8, 2025

Stop trying to look like an AI startup and start to be one instead. It seems like every startup these days is slapping .ai ai onto its name, like its a shiny golden sticker that will guarantee funding, customers, and success. The AI TrendTrap A startup rebrands as [Something].ai Customers getcurious. Investors nod.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Below is a preview of key insights. Customer feedback is overwhelming , making it hard to separate signal from noise. Communicate trade-offs clearly by tying product decisions to business objectives and user outcomes. Lack of habit formation Users dont build a routine around the product.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business. How to bake in a process and culture of customer feedback. What did we learn?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Think of Net Promoter Score (NPS) software as a tool to measure your customers’ feelings about your product, and categorize them based on their level of loyalty (promoters, neutrals, and detractors). Userpilot is a product growth platform that can collect customer feedback directly within your product.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Customers dont care about data structures. Why Storyboarding Works A storyboard is just a sequence of visuals that shows how a user moves from a problem to a solution. Run it by a few customers. Not a persona.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. .” ” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. When pitching early ideas, pay attention to specific actions customers want to take, like asking about pricing or requesting to start a proof of value (POV).

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

While Eva Spexard s work doesnt fit into the typical product mold, shes found ways of applying a continuous discovery mindset, including conducting customer interviews , building opportunity solution trees , and making iterative improvements over time. Nope, todays story involves a Head of Operations and People.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that you already understand the importance of mobile in-app feedback tools. You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard.

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The Product Guy

MAY 23, 2025

Teams that embed it into their delivery rhythm gain better alignment and faster insights. Insight overload leads to fatigue : Collecting research is not the goal. Discovery must be tracked, stored, and revisited : When insights are forgotten, duplicated, or disconnected from outcomes, teams miss patterns and repeat mistakes.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. This evolution offers valuable insights for product managers at all career stages.

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. Customer acquisition costs were soaring… Engagement was waning… Investors were worrying… The team knew they needed a strategic pivot and fast, as they estimated they had 6 months of funding left to work with. Going nowhere fast.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Few things are more frustrating than silence—especially when it comes to getting customer feedback in product management. One of my coaching clients—an experienced product leader at a SaaS startup—found themselves smack in the middle of this. Happy users. But when it came to actually talking to those users?

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Product PickEm 2025: The Ultimate Startup Showdown The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. April 4: The final battleonly one startup will take the crown. Who makes it to the finals? Thats up to YOU.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. If youre a product manager looking to reduce uncertainty, validate ideas, and build user-centric solutions , this guide is for you.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We’re zooming in on one aspect of discovery: automating the recruiting process for customer interviews. You may want to speak with existing customers or users. You might want to speak with former or prospective customers. Mohamed’s team runs continuous discovery with different customer segments.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

Ben shared insights about why many OKR implementations fail and how to avoid common pitfalls. For product managers, this means shifting conversations from feature lists and deadlines to measurable impacts and customer value. John Doerr’s startup companies would even write their OKRs in the bathroom for everyone to see.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2025

In this conversation on this week’s podcast, Adam Warburton, Co-Founder of Rove, shares his journey from being a Chief Product Officer at large firms like Co-op and Travelex, to co-founding his startup, Rove.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When you start interviewing customers every week, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much you are learning. When we use our customer interviews to collect specific stories about past behavior, every conversation can uncover dozens of unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires (AKA opportunities).

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 29, 2024

And now, a group of people see it as a vanity metric rather than a valuable indicator of customer sentiment. Net Promoter Score ( NPS ) is a metric that aims to quantify customer sentiment based on this survey question: How likely are you to recommend (our product) to a friend or colleague? Then your NPS would be zero.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Brought to you by: • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth • BuildBetter —AI for product teams • Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce’s MuleSoft and at Metromile.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 23, 2025

Through our work, we see firsthand how founders navigate the complexities of scalingbalancing product development, customer acquisition and investor expectations. With insights from some of the smartest leaders we know in New York City, we discussed the realities of building, funding and differentiating in todays competitive market.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2022

For fast-growing and enterprise organizations, the ability to personalize customer communication in a way that’s scalable is business critical. In fact, studies show that not only do customers expect great experiences when interacting with companies, they’re willing to pay more for them. Here are some of their takeaways.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. Dont miss Rachels insights. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2023

Empowering Product Managers with Data-Driven Strategies In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the role of a Product Manager has evolved beyond mere product delivery to orchestrating experiences that align seamlessly with both customer needs and overarching business goals. Imagine you’re steering a health and wellness app.

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