The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. He is a key advisor and speaker known for his product strategy insights. Active in course creation, advising, and angel investing in the tech sector.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup. Basically, the strategy is similar. What’s your take?

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Technical Advisors Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 98

The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

I’ve been able to get to know founder Nick Potts over the past few years and he credits their test kitchen in helping to speed up their product development, create more empathy between the product team and users, and to reduce friction in the product faster than they otherwise would be able to. Yep, creative naming.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

Research Software 52

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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Technical Advisors Data Visualization Customer Experience Startups 40

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

If you are lucky, there is someone in the company that has thought about your on-boarding, but many times especially if this is a small startup, there isn’t. As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc.

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Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Customer Experience 84

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. 6:55] How do you develop a customer focus? The author of the book is Valerio Zanini.

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Technical Advisors User Testing Customer Experience Product Research 72

UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Finding this match is the ultimate challenge in innovative product development, and it’s nearly impossible to plan this entirely in advance. Technical Feasibility. Chaos Report 2015.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Previously he was the Head of Product for the Yahoo incubator Brickhouse where he developed the pioneering location sharing project Fire Eagle. Cindy is the author of Lean Customer Development: How to Build Products Your Customers Will Buy.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup. Basically, the strategy is similar. What’s your take?

Technical Advisors 40

Technical Advisors Feedback Software Product Management Product Manager 40

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

If you are lucky, there is someone in the company that has thought about your on-boarding, but many times, especially if this is a small startup, there isn’t. I have just landed into such a situation, starting as a VP product in a small startup. I would advise you differently. Your first meetings should be a ‘get to know’.

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Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Onboarding KPIs 60

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After years of seeing companies head down the wrong path, we’ve come up with a short list of considerations for product engineers and managers to take into account when designing, or hiring a development team to create, a connected hardware product. The countries you plan to sell your product into will also drive development costs.

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Technical Advisors Certifications Customer Experience Wireless 73

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Technical experience is not required. I'm excited to shed some light on product management at IBM.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland.

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Weak Development Team User Testing Technical Advisors Product Research 104

BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Product Research 40

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. If you're a web developer with significant coding knowledge, you now have enough knowledge to go away and build a product tour for your own business! This is an arduous process that will just drain time and energy from your development team. Get a demo today!

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Analytic Tools Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Software Review 98

BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Geracie traces the product manager’s role from developing the product vision, through business planning, to leading cross-functional collaboration to build the product, and finally establishing and reporting on metrics. different skills are needed in startups than in mature companies).

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Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Technical Review 48

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Engineering leaders must do 2 things: a) execute and deliver high-quality software on a predictable schedule, and b) have the people skills to attract, retain and develop strong talent. ” But I work in startups. Short on time? Nick: Totally.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. As I mentioned, I was a PM at a fast-growing San Francisco startup and I grew to be VP product, so I’d seen the pain points and the struggles of being an individual PM.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

She enjoyed the startup environment even though she was performing “a thousand different jobs.” ” At Autodesk, Amy found the ability to develop as a professional product manager and expanded her skill set. . So I went from running product to running product and development.” The Peloton Experience.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. obviously most people skipped that part! names look familiar, anyone?

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. It’s not an immediately technical or product-based experience, and yet it’s an interesting question that might actually become more and more relevant. They asked a great question – how do you interview for growth folks? Growth Interview Questions.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Because you could imagine Concur was a startup, and then we got acquired by SAP.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

But in our experience, everything can be done if the development team and project manager have deep expertise and, along with the product owner, carefully listen to each other and keep themselves open to cooperation. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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