Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

More recently in 2020, cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake went public at an eye-popping market capitalization of $70 billion. However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. Ready to get started?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. It's important to be as specific as possible.

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Innovatemap

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How you sell and market your products, services, solutions, offerings, you name it, has changed. Startups often find that their website makes them look too small, like they’re operating out of their garage. Product marketing can help in all of the scenarios above. The worst case scenario.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Product-Led Growth practice lead, Dave Boyce describes the distinction between finding product-market fit (PMF) versus finding go-to-market fit (GTMF). By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Getting the product right and ready before launch is critical for digital product businesses.

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Userpilot

APRIL 17, 2024

Userpilot offers in-app surveys , user action tracking, and behavior analysis to provide granular insights and improve user experience and product development. Google Trends helps businesses differentiate products in crowded markets by identifying evolving consumer interests and regional search behaviors.

Data Visualization 95

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

What product managers need to know about launching products. Today we are talking about go-to-market planning and what is involved in planning the launch of products. He is a technology product leader who has led teams as founder, early hire, and executive at companies including Facebook, Craft.co, and KCG holdings.

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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’ ). Next, remember to keep your vision at the center of your product enhancements. Continue to test the strength of your product-market fit.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When I asked them their biggest learning on the trip so far, they said- We have to learn how to pitch our startup in the “American” way More self promotional, emphasizing the future not the past, talking about what it could be not what it is, playing up even small bits of proof points, etc. And they downplay their achievements or omit them.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category. . The math of startups and venture capital. Of all the topics of the book, one of my favorites has to be the math of startups and venture capital, because it gives us a perspective on the life and death of startups as a whole. The J-Curve.

Startups 109

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

From a Product Management and Strategy viewpoint, I believe internalizing this fear of failure drives some of the best outcomes for the organization and its customers. I will also do away with the notion of a “Product.” Markets need solutions. The Economics of a product is relative in that sense.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

User Testing 85

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. Now let’s look at the three product-led growth go-to-market types for SaaS companies. Disruptive SaaS Growth.

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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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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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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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.

User Testing 89

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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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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

The old adage that good marketing can’t sell a bad product is true. I’ve seen brands throw millions of marketing dollars at products that ultimately flopped. As product professionals, we internalize this lesson and combat its occurrence by taking an outside-in approach when it comes to product development.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. CAC spectrum and how your product and product tiers need to align on this spectrum. Marketo Their market is the enterprise. I went through the ARPU ?

Marketing 57

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. This approach is usually good for any feature even in big enterprises.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. This approach is usually good for any feature even in big enterprises.

Product Management 109

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 109

Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

Analytic Tools 94

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category. . The math of startups and venture capital. Of all the topics of the book, one of my favorites has to be the math of startups and venture capital, because it gives us a perspective on the life and death of startups as a whole. The J-Curve.

Startups 40

Startups Reference Books Finance 40

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.

User Testing 59

User Testing Customer Feedback Differentiation Startups 59

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. This approach is usually good for any feature even in big enterprises.

Product Management 78

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also. As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. You build the minimal capabilities to allow you to get into a product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. This approach is usually good for any feature even in big enterprises.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The most common case is in startups when the practice is to build things that do not scale (see also Do Things that Don’t Scale by Paul Grahm). As a startup, you do not always have the money to build a system that will scale properly if you succeed and grow. This approach is usually good for any feature even in big enterprises.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 20, 2016

As the product management role has become far more popular here in Silicon Valley and at technology firms in general, we’ve started to see specialization in the role begin to emerge. The innovators are the product managers tasked with the incredibly challenging job of finding product/market fit for a brand new product.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Having created and dominated the online storefront market for SMBs, this was a key part of Shopify’s strategy to build a business to last 100 years. It took a radical rethink of product, marketing and internal processes to make progress before ultimately, becoming a core piece of Shopify’s business. What do they want?

Enterprise 52

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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 Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The Lean Startup Method I differentiate between Lean methods and Lean Startup methods. Both rely on efficiency and fast learning, but the Lean Startup books focus much more on customer development and finding product-market fit. A lot of focus on developing customers while developing the product.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

Because still – there are some differentiators that may affect your choice. Userpilot is the best choice for mid-market companies – offering the best value-for-money starting at $249 with unlimited feature usage, completely interactive product walkthroughs, NPS, microsurveys, resource center and user analytics.

Analytic Tools 105

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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

MARCH 7, 2023

The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product. How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team.

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Userpilot

JUNE 17, 2022

The reports of analysts can be extremely helpful in understanding trends across vendors and markets in general. Therefore, they aren’t very useful to understand what’s driving specific ICPs and personas in today’s market. Product managers should look for ways to overcome these issues if they’re product-related.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Finding market opportunities, choosing a revenue model and delivering value to customers are all fundamental steps to reaching your product goals. Find Market Opportunities. To begin, it is important to find a market opportunity that has big enough potential. Steps to Creating, Measuring and Monetizing Customer Value.

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