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

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”. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

But a minimum delightful product might be new to you and exactly what you need to focus on as a product manager. A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). Focusing on a competitive differentiator. Well, look no further.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Berlyne As product managers, we have all enthusiastically dived into customer feedback, hoping to find insights that will take our product game to the next level. To overcome the Einstellung effect, product managers can start asking customers why they want the things they want. Yet, time and time again, we hit a wall.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. Start with the why, not the what Have you ever worked to bring a product to life, execute an initiative or fulfill your day-to-day role as a product manager and wondered what’s the point?

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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.

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

In software development, a product manager is inherently the CEO of the product: the person who is responsible for strategizing and defining the product roadmap. The product manager is like the missing middle piece required to hold the supporting pieces together. Role of a Software Product Manager.

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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. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises. Differentiating from the competition.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 3, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re probably used to questions like this coming at you from all directions. During her presentation, she shared how Product Managers can become masters of prioritisation. What’s key, is to instead apply your approach and rationale for prioritisation in terms of both vision and survival.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 3, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re probably used to questions like this coming at you from all directions. During her presentation, she shared how Product Managers can become masters of prioritisation. What’s key, is to instead apply your approach and rationale for prioritisation in terms of both vision and survival.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. Start with the product vision.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

Pipeline, Process, and Practice for Product Managers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:20] Second, make sure development teams have the flexibility to reduce the number of deliverables on their plate to manage the work that’s important for the teams. Eric Reis’ Lean Startup.

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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. What makes your solution unique?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

Mission and Vision Are your company’s mission and vision well defined? In many organisations, the mission and vision are not clearly defined. And even though the mission and vision are well defined, if your organisation isn’t designed appropriately, your key people won’t be able to embrace them or share them with their team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:38] 18:13] How can product managers engage those marketing resources?

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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.

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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. Limitations of relying on PowerPoint During my early days in Product Management , I was introduced to PowerPoint for building roadmaps.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management? But as I searched for people who are looking at how purpose and mission interact with Product Management I couldn’t find a clear definition.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’ve all been in that situation where you really enjoy your team and the work you’re doing, but your manager or others up the food chain just don’t get it. They yell, only focus on profits, or micro manage everything you do. Should managers or leaders be nice? Or, they are simply not nice people.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s someone you’ll certainly have come across if you’re at all interested in any of the discussion around the thinking and theory behind product management. “So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers.

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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. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

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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.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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. The differentiated growth approach is creating a product with unique features which can make it stand out from the crowd.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

You wouldn’t expect to find a Brand Studio at every tech startup, but then again, we’ve always enjoyed doing things a little bit differently. Kira Bundlie , Creative Copywriting Manager. Kristin Raymaker , Brand Design Manager. Here’s Kira Bundlie, who manages our creative copywriting team.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model. After that, the startup is pushed to get outside the building and understand the necessity of real customer feedback management for product managers who try to improve the product. That’s when the trough of sorrow begins.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. An important lesson that I learned early on is that formulating such a vision is only half the battle.

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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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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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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Our journey has led us to partner with startups and enterprises in more than 250 projects worldwide. These leave an exceptional first impression and differentiate our clients from competitors. Their impressive portfolio includes startups and well-known brands from various industries.

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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. As a small company or startup, you probably deal with all kind of different things when starting your business. Inbox from Zendesk (quite a new project from Zendesk for managing team emails).

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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?—?a a clear and compelling vision. Dan Pink’s Motivation 3.0 when done well.

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