Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2023

This is the new look and feel that we wound up with How did we get there? As part of the engineering team that helped push our new site into the world, I’d love to walk you through it—with a special focus on the way we married a great design vision with the right tech stack to bring it to life. The Mixpanel homepage circa 2018.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). Then map out their pain points and figure out how to address them. Next, remember to keep your vision at the center of your product enhancements.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

While all Product Managers are tasked with providing delightful solutions for customers, there are distinct differences between the work of PMs in startups compared to PMs in larger, more established businesses. The two main differentiating factors within these roles fall under the challenges faced, and the decision making process.

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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). How do we win? Two major obstacles stood in my way. Where do we play?

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

While I think a lot of us have intuitive ideas about “how to think about” product management, my observation is that these mental models are not as widely used as they should be. And if you’ve heard of them, you may not know how to use them. Why my product is a better choice for you (the differentiators).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While this statement illustrates the limitations of direct customer feedback, it does not explain how to work around those limitations. In this article, I will delve into the real-life examples and common challenges with each of those layers, as well as how to overcome those challenges.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. As I’ve said a few times before (for those who are frequent readers), many product managers equate a roadmap with what to build, how to build it, and a loosely affiliated when it should be available.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive. What is Product-Market fit?

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? 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. What are the key positions in product teams? Product Team Roles.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

How to Roadmap like an Essentialist. Start with the product vision. To begin, an essentialist has a clear vision for the direction of the product. This product vision describes the overarching long-term mission of your product. Your vision statement should also answer the question of your product’s “why.”.

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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!

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Product roadmaps transcend mere slides or visuals; they serve as the linchpin for strategically aligning internal teams and external stakeholders with the product vision and strategy. So how to create and present roadmaps effectively? It’s where visions are shared, strategies are unveiled, and futures are shaped.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Finally, you’ll learn how to transform the voice of customers into ammo for winning over your users. Create your vision and positioning 4. Each has a different approach to SaaS growth and will significantly impact your company’s product vision and revenue strategy. Differentiated SaaS Growth. Let’s g(r)o(w)!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan And how to achieve it? It’s better to differentiate 1–3 different personas than one based on “average”. We also differentiate ourselves by pursuing a different set of delighters.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. Different products require different visions. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here’s how to get your priorities in order. What’s key, is to instead apply your approach and rationale for prioritisation in terms of both vision and survival. This usually comes from building everything at once, then deciding how to differentiate afterwards. The first is to revisit your company’s vision.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 3, 2020

Here’s how to get your priorities in order. What’s key, is to instead apply your approach and rationale for prioritisation in terms of both vision and survival. This usually comes from building everything at once, then deciding how to differentiate afterwards. The first is to revisit your company’s vision.

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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He puts pressure on himself to make sure he does a good job in demonstrating Amplitude’s vision for how product teams should operate. “I Every relationship where you help people initially has a power differential. I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

All the feedback you get in customer research is super useful to product marketers when they’re planning launches and content so that they know how to talk about the value of your product. My book, Beyond Product: How Exceptional Founders Embrace Marketing to Create and Capture Value for their Business , is another great resource.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Here’s how I defined it: Growth design: A person who approaches product design through the dual lens of customer experience and business impact. It differentiates those of us who embrace data, validation and experimentation. They understand how to use data. Learn how to use an analytics tool. week, month to month.

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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

In these startup-driven times, where we build products people love using, we have the obligation to provide the best customer service. Here’s how you get started. As a small company or startup, you probably deal with all kind of different things when starting your business. Create customer care responsibilities in your team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 26, 2019

I’ll walk through how to get this going in your organisation but first, a quick 101 on OKRs and Hypothesis Driven Development for those who aren’t familiar. The only key differentiator between them really is that OKR’s are deliberately solution agnostic whereas Hypotheses aren’t. Vision > OKRs ?? beware of tunnel vision!

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It portrays the needs, values , and behaviors that differentiate bad-fit customers from your ideal customer. For example, your product team must have a crystal clear vision of who your users are so they can develop a product that suits your customer’s requirements and makes them achieve success.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

But, as Citymapper found out as time went by, feature-based differentiation doesn’t last forever. The dangers of feature-based differentiation The problem with some features is that they can be cloned. Feature depth vs. breadth explained The depth vs. breadth debate is more common for startups to consider than larger corporates.

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Modus Create

MARCH 18, 2020

There are several types of entities that usually enter here: startups, serial entrepreneurs, university spin-offs or the big tech “garages.” The category is already commoditized, has no innovation left, and lacks any differentiators besides price. A Short Case Study and How To Example. Pioneers Gate ? Look elsewhere.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. Paul: No comments.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2023

How to Choose the Optimal North Star for a Roof Shingles Assessment Vision API Company How the Right North Star Metric Can Illuminate Your Business Path Introduction In recent years, many new API SaaS companies are emerging that provide AI-powered capabilities for processing text, audio, images and video.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We discuss how we’ve approached it historically at Intercom and how this process has evolved with us to make room for a wider audience. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. Paul: No comments.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. The Customer Development Model and How to Apply It “ There are no facts inside the building, so get the hell outside.” That’s when the trough of sorrow begins.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Photo by Karla Vidal on Unsplash ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision I originally packaged this up from a recent coaching session I had with a Product Manager who had been tasked for their first time to develop a product vision from scratch?—?hope A good vision should be clear, punchy, and inspiring.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

We discuss the project’s background, vision, and goals, and conduct stakeholder interviews. Startups and new businesses can rely on their expertise. Such as Mercedes Benz, Google, and Stanford University as well as numerous startups in Silicon Valley and beyond. What Services Does Studio 22 Offer?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

1] As simple as this sounds, there is a catch: To create value with Scrum, you must understand who the users and customers are, why people would want to use and pay for the product, which business benefits it should generate, and, in the case of commercial products, which features differentiate it from competing offerings.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model. A go-to-market ( GTM ) strategy is a comprehensive plan detailing how you want to launch your product. Differentiate your product from other similar products on the market to avoid product parity.

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