The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

Everyone is hiring Product Marketing Managers (“PMMs”) and there is a great demand for expertise in this space, so read on for a strategic and tactical definition of “What is Product Marketing?”. We think these definitions are too one-dimensional because they’re focussed on products going TO the market. What is Product Marketing?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

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. Why Do Most Startups Fail? No Market Need.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2018

For example, Eric Reis, in The Lean Startup , recounts how cohort analysis helped his startup realize that their efforts at improving their product weren’t working: Thanks to the power of cohort analysis, we could not blame this failure on…external market conditions, or any other excuse. This particular graph is from Google Analytics.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2018

The EU was kind enough to provide a stress test for our email delivery pipeline during the GDPR surge on a scale that I doubt our engineering team as a whole would have agreed to, and we passed. Before all these changes, upscaling to manage the GDPR email surge would have caused a definite outage across Intercom.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

For budding AI creators, this is a crucial moment akin to a high student moment familiarizing themselves with the exam format of a prestigious college entrance test. The Test This new law applies to anyone who places an AI system in the EU. The legislation is based on a comprehensive AI definition and the associated risk categories.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank?—?This Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel?—?Theil some ideas and investments have outsized returns Focus Having a definite plan for the future There is no formula Last Mover advantage 3. by Justin?—?Takes

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

If people are just complaining that [OKRs] take way too much time, that’s a definite sign that they might not really get any value out of it, so let’s definitely change that for sure. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. It’s important for an early-stage startup with limited resources.

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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. Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2020

The problem with models is that they are incomplete, almost by definition. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Listen to learn more about: * Making predictions. Using data sensibly. Moving away from roadmaps. Quote of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

The definition of product-market fit:] When customers agree that your product creates enough value for them relative to the other options that are available. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Quote of the Episode. Quote of the Episode.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

Cutting overhead is definitely not personal—it’s all about how managers perceive an employee’s value. And if your company is a startup looking for funding? In Hiring Geeks That Fit , I categorized technical skills into these four areas: Functional skills, such as how you build or test the product.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Offering insights on structuring teams, discovering the right products , and fostering a strong product culture, Cagan provides a blueprint for success for both startups and established companies alike. The three important types of validation product teams should conduct are feasibility testing, usability testing, and desirability testing.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 2, 2018

OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. This is why you can’t add up your A/B test results. The post Conservation of Intent: The hidden reason why A/B tests aren’t as effective as they look appeared first on andrewchen. Why is that?

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Our conversation reminded me of an old startup adage that still rings true: First-time founders worry about the product, second-time founders worry about go-to-market. After developing and launching multiple apps, I have definitely learned to be in the second camp. The best part? You can check out the full episode here.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Des Traynor: So, maybe just a couple of dictionary definitions. When there’s unstructured data like masses of text or images or sounds, neural networks are now definitely the best way to deal with that data. And they are just scaling that up. They just added more and more compute to it, and it started to do amazing things.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Everyone knew that if a user signs up on Twitter and follows 50 people, chances are they will keep using Twitter forever… but how did [they] get to this very simple Aha moment definition? Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Around 2013, a serial entrepreneur named Mark Randall sold his startup to Adobe and joined Adobe. He realized innovation in a big corporation such as Adobe looks very different from innovation in a startup. You should test a lot of ideas with a little money. We try to understand the definition of innovation in each company.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 5, 2020

A founder of Clearleft, a member of Adobe’s Design Circle, and a prolific Twitter user, he has some definite opinions on the matter. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Integrating service design and product management.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

She’s worked in product from early-stage startups all the way up to publicly traded companies like Rackspace and Square, a company with the sensitive task of handling customers’ money. I went into the startup world, figured out product management, and then came to Square about two years ago. ” Michelle: I know.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. Until the 40% rule. but nothing around how to measure it.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Food tech definition and its rise in the food industry Food technology refers to any technology that improves food production, distribution, and supply and impacts how people sell, produce and distribute food. The dramatic reduction in the costs associated with the various tests mentioned is a second step forward.

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Bryce York

DECEMBER 20, 2020

People ask me all the time what I recommend as great tools for startups, and there are some things I get asked about all the time (like email marketing tools). Optimizely – if you’re looking for world-class split testing software, you can’t beat Optimizely. Their user experience is amazing too! WordPress stuff.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

Strategic thinking is hard by definition. One of the ways to test your numbers is to ask yourself what would happen if you don’t meet them. especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s Here’s how to do that.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Case: “ Suppose you have been hired as a PM for a tech startup that is trying to launch smartwatches in India in a non-premium segment. Simple definition of TAM, SAM, SOM ??

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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. Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. But what is product definition exactly?

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

It’s a topic she feels so strongly about, she’s named it a keystone habit, incorporated it into her definition of continuous discovery , and designed an entire course to help people improve their customer interviewing skills. Some of our biggest challenges have been delivering multiple test iterations on a weekly basis and killing ideas fast.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

About CNY Biotech Accelerator Central New York Biotech Accelerator (CNYBAC) is an off-campus accelerator serving for-profit startup companies who are actively commercializing a biotech-related product or service. About Paul Ortchanian Paul Ortchanian is exceptionally knowledgeable and well-rounded in all aspects of product management.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

If yes, you are definitely in the right place! The team offers a high-quality UI design, UX research and design, wireframing, prototyping, implementation in code, QA, software testing, and product deployment. Fireart ranks as the leader among Top Mobile App Development Companies for Startups on MobileAppDaily on a global scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 30, 2019

A typical definition of confidence can be found in the Cambridge Dictionary : “The quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future.” However, there is something about this definition that doesn’t sit well with me in practice. ” A personal definition.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. Origin of Lean Thinking. Thiel starts by sharing the origin story of lean thinking.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In some ways, this discussion is more relevant to product teams, and product-led companies, than for growth teams, who are by definition focused on outcomes. When you’re in the startup phase of a company, speed of shipping, and shipping uncomfortably early so you can learn what actually works, is essential for success.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It’s easy to focus on the new skills we need— interviewing , prototyping , testing assumptions , and so forth—but today I want to talk about the mindsets we need to become a successful outcome-driven product team. Let’s start with a definition. So back to our definition. We need to be able to prototype and test our solutions.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And the production of the system is not the definition of success any more. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In the coming years, quantum computing is expected to achieve quantum supremacy — the point where it definitively surpasses the most powerful classical computers in practical tasks. These simulated “digital brains” would allow researchers to test hypothetical virtual scenarios and iterate rapidly on product and service designs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2023

You can drive MRR growth by fixing leaks in your conversion funnel, experimenting with A/B tests to drive conversion, introducing existing customers to new, advanced features and upselling to increase the expansion MRR, and lowering churn. A good example of A/B testing is running a head-to-head test of two user in-app experiences.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? This idea was prime for testing. Someone picked up The Lean Startup , had their mind blown, and said “We should do that here!” What a novel idea!

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