ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 24, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything: product management, startups, AI, and more. Ignoring the Competition ⛔ Failing to acknowledge and differentiate from competitors can make your messaging feel stale and undifferentiated. Hello, all you product-loving folks!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I didn't go to a popular school for PM recruiting, nor did I study CS or engineering, so I wasn’t as compelling of a candidate to recruiters at first blush. Employers and recruiters definitely had a perception of me not having the technical skills necessary to interface with engineers or make the right product decisions.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented intern to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented intern to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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The Product HQ

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He’s worked on and launched products for Fortune 10 companies and startups. That is where we differentiate between a consulting firm and product partner. How do you differentiate project management vs. product management work at MetaLab? is it differentiated or competitive in the market?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2021

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by the rise of tech startups and one of the most common business models from the beginning are online marketplaces. To begin with, the search engines and filtering should be adequate for the segment of your company. so don’t mess up in this part.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

He’s worked on and launched products for Fortune 10 companies and startups. That is where we differentiate between a consulting firm and product partner. How do you differentiate project management vs. product management work at MetaLab? is it differentiated or competitive in the market?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

If there’s anything we’ve learned when it comes to working in hypergrowth startups is that you’re not really supposed to have it all figured out on the first try. And you definitely felt that. They’re an engineering platform, and I’d always been more on the front end. Iterate, iterate, iterate. And I got it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 3, 2020

This usually comes from building everything at once, then deciding how to differentiate afterwards. You end up with a fragmented Product and distracted engineers. For example, if you’re a startup, your biggest risk is financial. Consider a maths problem you definitely know the answer to.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 3, 2020

This usually comes from building everything at once, then deciding how to differentiate afterwards. You end up with a fragmented Product and distracted engineers. For example, if you’re a startup, your biggest risk is financial. Consider a maths problem you definitely know the answer to.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook. What’s your differentiator? RBS was our first customer.

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freshtrax

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In the second article, Nondo shares his definition of design, unforgettable services and products, and his current goals as a designer. After working as a licensed architect, he entered Chiba University in Japan for another Master’s degree in Engineering. They learn that any project can be a business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

It may take a bit of a leap of faith to invest in a differentiation strategy that won’t immediately translate into ROI, especially in a pandemic, but you can’t sacrifice innovation and sustainability for short-term revenue. There are things, bets you might take, but you definitely wouldn’t have taken in the midst of a pandemic.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

San Jose, CA $150 – $199 / hr Website Development, Digital Design, Digital Strategy, Search Engine Optimization, SaaS and B2B Marketing Netrix Digital Netrix Digital is a woman-owned design company delivering world-class experiences. Startups and new businesses can rely on their expertise. What Services Does Studio 22 Offer?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) concept for getting products to market faster. Through our customer discovery interviews, we learned that we could differentiate GoToMeeting with several innovative “features.” Delight features can be small.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale. We surveyed some of our best people and different managers and leaders in the product and engineering org, and they gave us amazing feedback. Some of this cut deep.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

” Unique activities : Find the differentiators that make sense for you. I think a lot of startups do this too, right? And the reason for this is that you need differentiation. So the differentiation is always only temporary, assuming it’s valuable, but it’s always only temporary. Is that it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Obviously our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers, love, value use, etc. And then we five engineering principles, again, specific to the discipline of engineering. Everyone inherits the top three, and then if you’re an engineer, you’ve got five engineering principles on top.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. From Wall Street to startup. Short on time?

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DISQO

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Instead of relying on expensive marketing or worrying about differentiation, habit-forming companies get users to cue themselves to action by attaching their services to the users’ daily routines and emotions. Instead, startups manufacture desire by guiding users through a series of experiences designed to create habits. Investment.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Instead of relying on expensive marketing or worrying about differentiation, habit-forming companies get users to cue themselves to action by attaching their services to the users’ daily routines and emotions. Instead, startups manufacture desire by guiding users through a series of experiences designed to create habits. Investment.

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DISQO

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Instead of relying on expensive marketing or worrying about differentiation, habit-forming companies get users to cue themselves to action by attaching their services to the users’ daily routines and emotions. Instead, startups manufacture desire by guiding users through a series of experiences designed to create habits. Investment.

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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. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

Deciding what your engineers should do next can be a lot like climbing a ladder. Here are five quick takeaways: Narrow your definitions. Brian: It seems like it’s one of these things that’s definitely bubbling up in so many different places at the same time. Narrow your definitions. Short on time?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So these are the things I definitely learned – it was like how to be successful required these two things and you had to be going off real consumer challenge. I said look I want to build this game engine from scratch how easy would it be.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Google - The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, written by Larry Page & Sergey Brin in 1998. That level of precision provided incredible clarity to both our sales and product teams as we tried to build the very best product and sales engine for this very specific audience definition.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

Startups building an integration strategy should start by understanding where to add value and what tools people are using to get that value today. Liam: Very early on, we were definitely working with bigger companies with sizable data just because the problem’s more interesting, and that’s where we saw the opportunity and our vision.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2023

Mid-sized SaaS companies won’t have any problem paying, but it might not be suitable for startups on a tight budget. Other cheaper tools in the market would definitely not fulfill your needs, and others like Pendo would be out of budget. The pricing differentiation happens mostly on the service level (e.g. Userpilot reviews.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I know your definition is slightly different than a lot of others. By definition that probably isn’t going to happen in one single sitting or within a couple minutes, and would require getting people to come back into your product. It’s about the temptation of many startups to focus on existing users rather new ones.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And let me tell you, it was definitely not at all cool at that time, but it inspired me to realize that there are some things that humans are particularly great at doing, and then there are things that we can automate in ways that make people’s lives better. And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup.

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