ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics. We’ve scoured the certification landscape.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Surge: DeFi, a subset of Web3, has grown exponentially, with the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols surpassing $200 billion. DeFi’s inclusive financial services are reshaping traditional finance structures. This allows for the creation, management, and transfer of digital assets within the app.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 26, 2020

A look into healthcare product management in the time of Coronavirus. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a product manager for a leading healthcare provider and insurer in the middle of a world health pandemic? Meet Claire Marcus, senior product manager at UPMC Health Plan.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [3:04] Why was the OCI award created?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2023

From e-commerce to finance, logistics to healthcare, data-driven decision-making is at the core of success. These observations led us to ask, “What if we could create a training program that not only addresses the existing gaps in knowledge and skills but also reshapes the industry altogether?”

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. The reason I started posting my trades as Sir Jack is because it can feel really uncomfortable talking about finances under your real name. They say write what you know. Why wouldn’t the same go for building apps?

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? Next, it’s time for market research which focuses on industry trends , assessment of the competitive landscape, and evaluation of the financial viability of the solution. Why is product idea validation important?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. This post will look at six typical roles a product manager might find themselves in throughout their product management career.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Although the Web3 realm has other elements, such as cryptos, decentralized finance (DeFi), metaverses, and hardcore blockchain solutions, the market scope for non-fungible tokens is comparatively higher this year. However, it is still a new industrial domain due to the subjective nature of NFT pricing. Become One Now!”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2023

Gone are the days of relying solely on traditional banking institutions to manage our finances. At the core of this empowerment is the concept of personal crypto wallets, which provide a secure and user-friendly interface for managing digital wealth. They provide a convenient and accessible way to manage cryptocurrencies.

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BrainMates

MARCH 23, 2020

Product Management legend Marty Cagan shared his insights on ‘real’ Product Management in a Q&A session with Product Women Sydney at a March meetup. As Marty explained to the Product Women group, during their working week, a Product Manager will be found: Working with designers. Focusing on usability testing.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 23, 2017

A lot of people aren’t cut out for the quota pressures of direct sales but make fine product marketing managers! Must have strong domain expertise in a particular industry (healthcare, banking, etc.) and/or business function (HR, IT, Finance, etc.) There are plenty of product experts in product management.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. This post will look at six typical roles a product manager might find themselves in throughout their product management career.

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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”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You’ll know which verticals, industries, and geographies they’re currently in and targeting next. Competitive intelligence for product management. Yet, you might find that if you asked everyone on the management team—let alone every employee—those same questions, you’d get different answers. Get collaborative.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Meg Prater, a managing editor of the HubSpot Blog , explains: “Because this strategy requires companies to slash prices to almost below market value, it’s usually employed by new businesses in a high-growth phase that are prepared to absorb initial losses. Why Is Pricing Strategy Important to Product Management? a price war).

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For traditional industries such as manufacturing, COGS are made up of the physical costs incurred in selling your product. Imagine you are running a product management application that sells access to its product on a per seat basis. Great customer support can act as a clear differentiator in your sales and marketing efforts.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The problem in managing innovation arises because companies don’t understand the differences in levels of uncertainty at different time horizons of the product lifecycle. To innovate effectively, you have to be able to differentiate between the known and unknown problems you are trying to solve, and adjust your operations accordingly.

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Reveal

JULY 19, 2022

As a business owner or manager, it’s natural to want your business to run smoothly and efficiently. When it comes to embedded analytics a lot of business owners and managers use white labeling software that helps them build trustful and loyal relationships with their valuable customers. White Label Finance Dashboard.

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Sachin Rekhi

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The most common question I get from aspiring product managers is how to land their first product manager role. Unfortunately it's not an easy question to answer because there isn't a single straightforward path into product management, but instead a variety of paths from which product managers typically come from.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Suddenly it became increasingly difficult to manage increasing volumes of customers and hang on to those personal relationships. Plus it’s an amazing way to differentiate against the competition. It’s highly configurable , allowing agents, teams, and managers to set up the Inbox just the way they want. Which grows loyalty….

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. SaaS product managers) to find out how their role differs from an “old-school” software PM—and more importantly, what it really takes to be a SaaS PM. Jill Renwick , Product Manager at ScribbleLive. Company: Atlassian.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A well-crafted timeline helps break major activities into smaller, more manageable parts. The creation process also gives the product launch managers a better understanding of how long each step takes. However, a crackerjack project manager—also known as a launch manager —can help ensure the process goes as well as possible.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It also granted us extensive expertise across various industries and niches, such as fintech, travel, education, healthcare, and more. These leave an exceptional first impression and differentiate our clients from competitors. The company believes that every business, regardless of its size or industry, deserves top-tier service.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

The disinclination of industries to adopt innovative technologies is pretty normal. However, innovation brings the potential of revolutionizing not just one industry but the whole business world. The public perceptions of blockchain are that it’s useful only for the industry of finance. That’s not entirely true.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

  Services companies promote their skills and talents building whatever individual clients want (“bespoke”, industry talent, speed of development, geography, cost of people, success stories about delivering what one client needed).   Should Finance carefully track true ARR and services work on existing deals?  Should

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You can do this via market data, industry reports, conversations with industry experts, your own knowledge, etc… the more sources you can turn to, the better. Yahoo Finance. Professional industry associations. You may also want to buy industry reports or consider hiring an external research company.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

As an author, Scott could not have more street cred — he joined and built a16z from the very early years, and is our go-to on all the nitty gritty of the industry for the whole team. As with the management fee, the actual amount of carried interest varies among venture funds but often ranges between 20 and 30 percent of the profits.

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Modern analytics applications like embedded analytics solutions enable non-technical users to manage and work with data themselves by providing self-service and modern architecture capabilities. These tools make your app stickier and allow you to differentiate yourself from competitors. What Is a Modern Analytics Application?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

They needed to be really quick coming up with a new, adapted learning management system: “It’s the equivalent of going into an old house and stripping it back to the walls and having to really start from scratch again. And I think you need to think about people management the same way. SaaS is the subscription business.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

venture capital investments, 1995–2017: [link] The burst of the bubble (also known as the dot-com crash ), took place in the early 2000s and was a critical turning point for the technology industry. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. most invariably say zero.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Understanding how B2B product management is a different ball game altogether Product folks who have worked on the early stage enterprise products may relate with the title. The users for this accounting software are the finance and accounting professionals in a company, the customer is the ‘Enterprise’ paying for this product.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 17, 2023

Let’s assume that you have established a clear research objective, either an area of inquiry related to your customers’ domain where you’d like to develop some differentiation or a hypothesis you have developed about how your product could improve based on some sort of customer feedback. Finding someone to talk to.

B2B 59

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 9, 2019

An example of this strategy can be seen in the automotive industry where dealers aren’t necessarily making a lot of money on the cars, but they are making a nice profit on the associated services, financing, extended warranties, etc. Are you interested in strategy workshops for your product, marketing, or business managers?

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Strategy Automotive Finance Branding 40

Amplitude

MARCH 21, 2019

I have experience in entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration, finance, and working with product teams at small and large companies. So for us, the differentiator is bringing that strategy and execution together in delivery and meeting our clients where they are with a tailored approach.

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