Andrew Chen

JUNE 4, 2018

Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. It’s much harder to fix the underlying issues – creating real moats, product differentiation, doing deeper adtech integrations.

Startups 111

Startups Marketing Customer Experience Customer Feedback 111

The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

Ideally, you also want a way to manage your APIs without distracting valuable engineering effort. Technical Perspective on API Platforms Due to the technical nature of APIs, most organisations and managers immediately turn to their technologists and engineers to understand how they need to deliver an API. However, platforms?

Analytic Tools 120

Analytic Tools Technical Review Software Review Customer Experience 120

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”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Research Software Enterprise Startups 60

Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When I asked them their biggest learning on the trip so far, they said- We have to learn how to pitch our startup in the “American” way More self promotional, emphasizing the future not the past, talking about what it could be not what it is, playing up even small bits of proof points, etc. And they downplay their achievements or omit them.

User Testing 108

User Testing Product Research Testing Startups 108

Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

User Testing 89

User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 89

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. Technical debt can also be created even if you do the best engineering.

Product Management 109

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 109

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. Technical debt can also be created even if you do the best engineering.

Product Management 109

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 109

Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Transitioning from a functional role such as marketing or engineering to product can seem daunting, especially if your education and experience aren’t specifically tailored to product, but it can be done. Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms.

Data Visualization 120

Data Visualization Customer Experience Customer Feedback Transportation 120

Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

User Testing 59

User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 59

Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This is a difficult framing issue, which can reinforce deep-seated beliefs that engineering organizations don’t work hard, are flagrantly inefficient, or need more oversight. Which usually) makes things worse.) The cost to our company is more than failing to deliver some promised feature. Kids build their own nuclear reactors!

Reporting Tools 137

Reporting Tools Weak Development Team Customer Experience Product Research 137

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. Technical debt can also be created even if you do the best engineering.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also. As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. Technical debt can also be created even if you do the best engineering. How is technical debt created?

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

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. Through our customer discovery interviews we learned that we could differentiate GoToMeeting with several innovative “features.”

Weak Development Team 126

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Differentiation 126

Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

Over the past year, the design, brand, and engineering teams at Mixpanel have been working hard on a complete overhaul of how the world experiences us: our website. We’d have to hire and bring in UI engineers from other teams at Mixpanel that specialized in challenging user experiences. The Mixpanel homepage circa 2022.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools User Testing Customer Experience Vision 52

Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

Over the past year, the design, brand, and engineering teams at Mixpanel have been working hard on a complete overhaul of how the world experiences us: our website. We’d have to hire and bring in UI engineers from other teams at Mixpanel that specialized in challenging user experiences. The Mixpanel homepage circa 2022.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools User Testing Customer Experience Vision 52

Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

Over the past year, the design, brand, and engineering teams at Mixpanel have been working hard on a complete overhaul of how the world experiences us: our website. We’d have to hire and bring in UI engineers from other teams at Mixpanel that specialized in challenging user experiences. The Mixpanel homepage circa 2022.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools User Testing Customer Experience Vision 52

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. Technical debt can also be created even if you do the best engineering.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. Technical debt can also be created even if you do the best engineering.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

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!

Messaging 52

Messaging User Testing Feedback Software Customer Feedback 52

Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

The go-to-market (GTM) process involves many different teams, including engineering, product, marketing, and management. Companies dedicate most of their resources to engineering and product development and very little to messaging about their value propositions. Marketing teams and engineering teams rarely communicate about delays.

User Testing 62

User Testing Marketing Strategy Customer Experience 62

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

The Market Requirements Event involves customer-facing people like sales and marketing, and it’s led by product management with developers and engineers present. You categorize and prioritize to develop products with maximum differentiation and value, and you align the group around the important requirements. Innovation Quote.

Development 95

Development Customer Experience Differentiation Events 95

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

In a rapidly growing company where engineers are building a fast-iterating product , it can be hard to keep track of every database table or stay on top of every algorithm. Compliance managers don’t want to slow engineers down, but rigorously keeping track of how data is handled throughout a product is essential. Know your own systems.

Weak Development Team 220

Weak Development Team Systems Review Data Visualization User Testing 220

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

With IoT security gateways and data analytics services, IoT service providers help to deliver differentiated services that boost the efficiency of the organization by reducing the overall cost. Contus Contus, a leading Software as a Product company provides Digital Engineering services for global Enterprises.

Data Visualization 78

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Artificial Inteligence 78

Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers.

Analytic Tools 85

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software Product Research 85

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.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

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.

Product Management 67

Product Management Product Manager User Testing Differentiation 67

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?

User Testing 52

User Testing Product Research Technical Review Customer Feedback 52

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years. Now we need to deliver something beyond product information and walkthroughs to add the kind of value that will differentiate us from our competitors.

Research Software 162

Research Software Software Review Customer Experience Differentiation 162

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2023

All departments in the company, from engineering to marketing, should understand and be oriented towards optimizing this metric. One might ask, how do you differentiate between users who log in to chat vs. those who complete one workout vs. those who complete ten workouts for the North Star metric?

Data Visualization 121

Data Visualization User Testing Customer Satisfaction Customer Experience 121

The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

Research Software 148

Research Software User Testing Analytic Tools Product Research 148

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). consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products.

Weak Development Team 130

Weak Development Team Product Strategy Strategy Development 130

Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

Within several months, I noticed they had the same problem I had in my startup but at a significantly greater scale and cost. That winter, I got to work building a startup company and a startup family. That was when I became passionate about solving the B2B customer education problem.

Education 40

Education Vision Customer Experience Differentiation 40

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.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

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.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

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.

Research Software 52

Research Software Technical Advisors Artificial Inteligence Product Research 52

The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

Analytic Tools 142

Analytic Tools Research Software CTO Coach Fractional CTO 142

The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

You have brought together some of the best robotics engineers and have raised money from some of the best Venture Capitalists in the valley. Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn.

Product Research 141

Product Research User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback 141