Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Switching costs.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

My last role at Facebook was as a product manager in the Facebook Reality Labs, which is now Meta. The go-to-market (GTM) process involves many different teams, including engineering, product, marketing, and management. We worked with teams across Facebook to launch the product. We had to learn everything again.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

It transformed Adobe from selling boxed products to selling services and subscriptions, creating new value for customers. It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07]

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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. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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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. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

According to Montreal’s Founder Institute , the following are among the top revenue models for startups and businesses. Ad-based: Creating ads for a specific website, service, app, product etc. We help ambitious organizations create new value by establishing company-wide product-related processes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If the product isn’t in good shape, R&D needs to prioritize getting it up to speed before focusing on the next thing. ” And in Intercom and elsewhere, we’ve been thinking about what that actually means for startups, for seed-stage companies, all the way through to mid and late-stage companies. Paul: Yeah.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

A minimum product is the opposite of the “it’s all-important” mentality. I’ve written a lot about the minimum viable product (or the minimum sellable product) that provides customers value. Yet, that wasn’t enough to have a product that stood out from a vast field of online meeting competitors.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

Product marketing can be tricky to define. It’s not sales, it’s not product management , and it’s not “traditional” marketing either. In this article, we’ll demystify product marketing for product managers. What is Product Marketing’s Job?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Speed, the ability to move and improve, to iterate and innovate, is paramount, and if you listen to Intercom on Product regularly, this probably sounds familiar. Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that a product walkthrough is often needed when you are trying to make the case to leadership to green-light a new venture based on the strength of your vision for it. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot. Yeah, absolutely.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot. Yeah, absolutely.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are essentially three ways for a product manager to work, and I argue only one of them leads to success: They can escalate every issue and decision up to the CEO. Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

How to Conduct a Product Health Check Why gathering health indicators helps you make better product decisions I was chatting to a friend the other day who had just taken on a senior product director level role at a venture backed startup. What are our differentiators?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

If your product supports multiple integrations, you’ll thank yourself for the good documentation down the line. Q: How should startups position integration planning to maximise growth and retention? Senior Product Marketing Manager. All that cost is something you could have put towards building differentiated value.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Typically before the sales call you know if they would be qualified for the product, but you haven’t discovered what they need specifically. Meet the customer where they are, learn and establish your differentiated value At IBM the first call was about them and the second call was all custom.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I even know some highly effective organisations with hundreds of thousands of users who just have product designers instead of product managers in most of their squads and are seeing positive results. This isn’t about team productivity mind you, but individual product managers productivity.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The role of the growth product manager focuses on identifying and maximizing product growth opportunities. The product launch manager collaborates with the marketing team to develop launch plans and oversees their implementation. Hardware product managers are responsible for building and launching physical products.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

How to Make Fewer Errors During Your Trial-And-Error Journey Reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error, but it takes so much more to succeed. 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.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It’s also worth prioritizing entirely new product ideas. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2017

who’s it for, what problem is it solving, what’s its value proposition and competitive differentiation, and how will it deliver ROI. I thrive in middle market and scrappy startup environments, where everyone does a little of everything. At least not right away. Say you’re looking at critical elements?—?who’s

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