The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 15, 2023

Former CEO of Picker explains mistakes made in pursuit of product-market fit. This pursuit motivates companies to dream about breakthrough strategies. It’s about a company that seemed to have a great idea from the start, but then, as the story goes, they failed to achieve product-market fit.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. is the CPO of a startup in transition. is the CPO of a startup in transition. It is very rare to simply sit in the room until everything is sorted out and have a clear vision and strategy as an immediate outcome.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Did you know that 42% of startups fail because no one wants to buy their product? For corporations, nearly 80% of new products fail each year for the exact same reason. So why are we still developing products no one wants? Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to the market, promoting it, and selling it to customers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? Since my college days, I was always passionate about being an entrepreneur and my college experience led me to participate in what is called the Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC). Four steps in creating a GTM.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Use it to make better product decisions. Information from the front lines is critical when helping product decision-makers prioritize what to build next.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? You’ve done the hard work of building a product or a specific feature that people want. This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which

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Modus Create

JULY 2, 2021

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. It’s one thing to validate your idea in the market. Many startups struggle to carry the momentum of the initial growth spurt. . So, why do most startups struggle to scale? Ignoring Competition.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 28, 2017

It’s Not Just Great Product The “go-to” answer for almost every question in startups, is “build a great product.” Building a great product is a piece of the puzzle, but it’s far from the full picture. It’s Not Just Product Market Fit The second “go-to” answer is product market fit.

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freshtrax

APRIL 11, 2019

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , 20% of startups fail within their first year, 50% fail by their fifth year, and 70% are done by year 10. With so many pressing matters at the forefront of an entrepreneur’s mind, there are many reasons why a startup may fail. Vested is a startup helping small businesses find new employees.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit. Everpix and Google Wave didn’t satisfy the market.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 12, 2021

The bar investors have is rising as more startups are being developed daily. There are two optimal scenarios for digital product startups seeking pre-seed and early seed funding. And these are reserved for products that look “special.”. Startup founders need to come to the table looking more polished than ever.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. Product Drive talks categories This year’s edition comes with four talks categories to give you insights and inspirations into different aspects of Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

My last role at Facebook was as a product manager in the Facebook Reality Labs, which is now Meta. The go-to-market (GTM) process involves many different teams, including engineering, product, marketing, and management. We worked with teams across Facebook to launch the product. We had to learn everything again.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A growth marketer is a professional who leverages experimentation and optimization techniques to increase customer lifetime value, drive retention, and fuel business expansion (referral programs, upsells, etc.). In contrast, traditional marketing managers primarily concentrate on classic marketing campaigns for customer acquisition.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 14, 2019

At Disney, she is currently working on software for Disney's broadcast operations team and streaming services and manages a team of 12 designers, developers, and QA professionals. In this Path to PM blog post, Sanaz and I discuss applying lean startup principles to media products. How did you break into product management?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Strategies – so you know which steps you should take on the way to higher, faster, and more sustainable growth. Trends – so you know what is working great right now regarding acquiring and retaining customers and what you should do to follow SaaS market trends so you won’t stay behind the competition. Product-Market Fit (PMF).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits. Each level requires a different marketing strategy.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. Who is LUCA Theory?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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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. Finally, make sure to focus on the highest value product initiatives.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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