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Founders: What Are the Signs It’s Time to Evolve Your Core Customer Benefit?

The Product Coalition

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? The initial phases 2 and 3 (the time between startups raising Series A to raising Series B) play a massive role in achieving the 2T3D growth dream.

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10+ Resources to awaken your strategic brain

The Product Coalition

but we had no previous training on strategy. While it is not a book on strategy per se , the deep understanding of how you will create a differentiated value proposition is the basis for creating a strategy that focuses on generating it. Regretfully, we learned and perfected our day-to-day chores (which led to a promotion!),

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Are you a Builder or an Optimizer?

Mind the Product

After that I went freelance where I could start with new clients often and, most recently, I leapt at the chance to build Mind the Product’s new training program. Builder product managers can also be found in startups, which is where I found myself, after being a consultant and a freelancer. Explore Training Opportunities.

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F.E².A.R.?—?A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1

The Product Coalition

While the use of the framework is evident at the execution stage, it is equally applicable during business prioritization to identify product-market fit, competitive differentiation, and strategic alignment. As a Product Strategist or a Manager, it is insufficient to only think about how differentiated your product is. Ecosystems? —?As

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How to Build Mobile Apps Customers Really Want

Alchemer Mobile

“The average app loses 77 percent of its DAUs (Daily Average Users) within the first three days after the install” according to research conducted in late 2018 by Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen and mobile intelligence startup Quettra. How do you maximize your opportunity? Know Thy Customer—and Thy Enemy. Sounds simple, right?

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WalkMe vs. Whatfix – the Ultimate Comparison Guide + a few alternatives

Userpilot

WalkMe and Whatfix both market themselves to large companies with employee onboarding and training needs. Instead, they lean more toward servicing large companies that want to reduce IT support tickets by training users to navigate their software more effectively. Set up basic contextual onboarding to differentiate user experience.

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Product Management at Startups vs. Enterprises

The Product Guy

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”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.