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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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

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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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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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision? How do you create a roadmap? Discovery and Experimentation as Part of Product Strategy 5.Where Where to start – Product Discovery vs Product Strategy How Userpilot Helps. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction.

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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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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 builders are what most folks would classify as the classic product manager. A Few Words of Advice.

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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.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

At first, like many organizations trying to target higher value customers with more complex requirements, it was difficult to develop a product and approach that met their needs but there was clearly a market that was worth pursuing. Can we test the market without committing to build a significant new product?

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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

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 Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. Differentiated SaaS Growth. Disruptive SaaS Growth.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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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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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Pricing, packaging and anchoring As many product marketeers know, anchoring plays a big part in how the value of a product is perceived. For SaaS products at least, pricing tables are the predominant way of presenting your product’s value and pricing back to users before they buy. A few things done well.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit. Everpix and Google Wave didn’t satisfy the market. It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model.

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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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Product Management University

AUGUST 13, 2019

A strategic product marketing function can be created with one simple move that pays three big dividends to the organization. Many product marketing professionals in B2B have long felt like the sales tools on-demand department and rightfully so. It’s one of the least effective ways to do product marketing in B2B.

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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. Making the right bets.

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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. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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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.

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

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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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 17, 2018

“Things would be much better at a startup…” It turns out that?—?just people at a startup don’t automatically have a common understanding of their products’ value propositions either. And lack of alignment at a startup is more painful, especially in early stages when you are looking for that elusive product-market fit.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 12, 2017

Product management teams often ask themselves if third-party integration is right for their software product roadmap. The thinking is that you should integrate with products such as Salesforce and Slack, because you never would want to try to build those sorts of products by yourselves. Mike Knoop. CPO, Zapier.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

We did the same thing with our product: we had a product roadmap, and we had an anti-product roadmap of things we’re not going to build. This is something that we saw with a lot of our startup clients, and a mistake we didn’t make with Close, which I am very grateful for. Speed is everything.

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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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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s episode is all about growth, one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs — of all kinds of startups, and especially for consumer ones. And we cover everything from the basics of growth and defining key metrics to know, to the nuances of paid vs organic marketing and the role of network effects and more.

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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

This isn’t about team productivity mind you, but individual product managers productivity. It doesn’t come as a shock that the empowered product teams seem to be more prevalent in companies who have well and truely found product market fit and are growing quickly. that is called Product Market Fit.

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 7, 2019

In fact, interviewees come from all sorts of industries and their discussions – which rarely clock in above the half-hour mark – cover everything including arts, science, user experience, strategy, career tips, design, differentiation, and metrics. . This Week in Startups. The Everyday Innovator .

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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. This is very common in large companies, and in this model, the product manager is really a project manager and roadmap administrator.

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