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. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Instead of implementing the entire product, teams started to engineer small increments and test them in the market.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Five years ago I wrote about how product strategy means saying no – you must ruthlessly protect your product from feature creep. . Saying no, however, is just one part of a successful product strategy. ” Unique activities : Find the differentiators that make sense for you. Des: But not in conflict.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

In a way, once you are set on your target market , the level you are at is no longer for you to decide. You need to understand the market and act accordingly. The key to understanding which level you are at lies in understanding where your differentiation is?—?at Each level requires a different marketing strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

We often think product and marketing are very separate, but the first P is Product. Customer interaction with your product is critical to your business’s success. Product marketing specifically is connecting your product with your market and your market with your product.

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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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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. Which leads us nicely onto our final product health check marker: strategic health.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? Marketing It’s a similar story for product marketing. Feature factories care little about the answers.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

While certainly not a product category most of us operate it, it showcases the kind of inspirational feeling a successful product walkthrough leaves your audience with. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. Our unique methodology ensures steady product growth for our clients. The Rectangles is a digital design company that is innovative in many ways.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. If the product isn’t in good shape, R&D needs to prioritize getting it up to speed before focusing on the next thing. But you can overthink this thing, for sure.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. Our unique methodology ensures steady product growth for our clients. The Rectangles is a digital design company that is innovative in many ways.

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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? I always look at integration as a retention strategy versus a growth strategy, since that’s mostly how users value it.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example: a statement such as “Our company makes a cheap product with few features and great support” Pair with opposites and identify choices that companies make Act like a lawyer: make a great case for the opposition Extract choices: refine these choices into intelligent decisions that could have been made Identify attributes — there are no strengths (..)

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2019

All products start somewhere, whether they’re spinoffs, or brand extensions of a popular offering, or something completely new from an unknown startup. Regardless of its origin story, a new product faces a particular set of challenges, some of which require the attention of its product manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

There’s a delicate balance any product strategy needs to master: On the one hand, to build a successful business, you need to design features that set your company apart — your core of innovation. On the other, no customer will sign up for a product if there isn’t a solid foundation on which to innovate on.

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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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