People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve been at a number of product events recently where conversations turned to fractional work, joining or launching a startup, or simply taking time off due to a lack of opportunity in one’s current situation. Differentiate : Embrace uniqueness as being the same can be limiting and honestly quite tiring.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

And while the scope of your product can also vary from a small feature to the entire product strategy for a company, the core discipline remains the same. Your strategy can change over time and it may require updating your vision. Let’s take each of these areas in turn and talk about what exactly it takes to excel at them.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 21, 2019

Her CV is impressive: VP of Marketing at several successful high-growth startups, an executive at 3 global tech giants, and 16 products launched to market over her career. Your product’s USPs will help differentiate it in the market, and move the ‘So?’ That’s because positioning is a business strategy exercise.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

How to Create a Product Content Strategy Why UX content writers are the unsung heroes of the modern product team and what you can do about it I used a product the other day and it referred to me as the ‘system administrator’. What’s the business strategy and what’s the product strategy? You can feel 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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Those are the differentiators.” — Dan Pink, Atlassian interview By painting a picture of a world that had transitioned to sustainable energy, Musk was giving his employees a unified sense of meaning, reinforcing what sits at the centre of providing purpose? Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0 The content Paints a picture of a better place ?—?the

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market. And that's what refining your strategy is all about. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Companies differentiate themselves from competitors by building a richer understanding of the opportunity space. I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. Vistaly is a startup in this space that has happy customers. What is an opportunity?

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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”. Therefore, Ben and Blair differentiate between customer and user problems.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They can create really nice looking screens that are user friendly […] But if you’re building on top of that some business knowledge, and you’re able to think with the head of business stakeholders, that’s a way to differentiate yourself.” And it was a really good workshop for us and also an exercise for us.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 13, 2019

Unless you’re an early stage startup, your product positioning is well documented. The goal of structuring product marketing along segment lines is to differentiate your value at a higher level that speaks to the strategic aspirations of decision-makers. A product structure alone will never get you there.

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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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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

Product marketing is all about aligning product and go-to-market strategy —product launches, positioning, segmentation, and pricing—and then putting that strategy into practice.”. Product Marketing Is About Strategy, Not Tactics. In smaller startups, product management does a lot of that sizing. Crafting the market story.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

We build a little table,, and the table has in it all the kind of components of in a solution and then it has, effectively two columns, sorry, three columns: essentials, then differentiators, and then not now. But obviously you and I are involved in different ways at times to check in and ensure we’re aligned on company strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, just as Ruairí wrote recently , your onboarding strategy must adapt over time as your product and business evolve. How does a startup, particularly when you have users who derive value in different ways from a product, go about pinpointing what those should be? There are two key reasons for this.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. Ambient Strategy founder and CEO April Dunford on the symptoms of weak positioning. For us, it was clear that startups and small businesses were the types of businesses we understood.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 17, 2024

She practices thought leadership and leverages her diverse expertise to mentor designers, guide leaders, and provide strategic counsel to startups. Last but not least, this year I gave myself a gift for my birthday it’s called a book about yourself and it’s a very deep self-reflection exercise. Karthik: Very interesting.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

And for a PM, differentiation becomes more critical. The data you focus on seems to be a key differentiator in SaaS product management. For mature startups, this may come through in software acquisitions or new internal product builds. There is no one-size-fits-all; it’s an ongoing exercise. Switching has become easier.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

Then 100% – a mere doubling annually in a startup ecosystem that demands a much faster target. Particularly for startups, where continual growth is life and death. and do I have strong differentiation?) But weirdly, a year or two in, there’s some softness in the latest numbers. But worryingly, it keeps slowing.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 6, 2020

Don’t quit your job, do it part time and work overnight’, ‘you got to iterate and test’ and ‘lean startup! Lean Startup! Lean Startup!’ Why are we doing this – lean startup! Lean Startup! But all the startup wisdom at the time was telling me to quit. Why are you building all this stuff?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

The first class I took was “ Foundations of Strategy “. I learned to think and speak in a new language that included things like market forces, differentiation, competitive advantage, barriers to entry, segmentation, and focus. Do Strategy and Tech Go Together? If that’s the case you need to stop and rethink your strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2019

Well, I have another one in mind… Creating the perfect user adoption strategy. A great user adoption strategy will help you achieve that level of adoption with your users. In this article, I’m going to show you how to create your user adoption strategy. You’ll learn: What a user adoption strategy actually is.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Critically the whole lean startup movement is about testing your assumptions right. Some people may say lean startup or agile means we don’t need a roadmap, we don’t need a priority list we just start somewhere and we just go. It’s also worth prioritizing entirely new product ideas.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. but may not directly sound like podcasting.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. We’re interested in investing in the next wave of consumer products and startups coming into the ecosystem, and that includes the audio ecosystem. but may not directly sound like podcasting.

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