The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

Due to this increased communication overhead, we needed to re-think how we could improve communication, product workflows and handover documentation across our ever expanding teams. AKA Scope of Work (SoW), Product Spec, Product Requirements Document (PRD) or in Intercom’s case ‘ The Intermission ’. Side note: ??Drift

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Market Requirement Documentation b. To do so, the activities of the PM include: a. Competitor Positioning c.

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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. Competition.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. We didn’t have any documentation, processes, or guidelines to refer to.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2019

Without a proper foundation to sustain growth , startups are liable to collapse on themselves. Disconnection within departments Luckily, these problems have solutions, and these solutions can be the key to taking your startup out of growing pains and into the next level of success. A lack of managerial direction.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

I've dedicated my entire career to five such hunts across the three startups I co-founded as well as the new products I built at LinkedIn and Microsoft. In 2007 I founded my first startup, Anywhere.FM, which developed a web music player that allowed you to upload your entire music collection to the web and then stream it from anywhere.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process. We had gone so long since the last formal MRD that the approved and documented template was glacial in its age.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2020

A Freshly-Minted Startup Here to Redefine Social Media Management More than three decades ago, becoming an entrepreneur was not for everyone. The people and the repository of rich support documentation and video resources helped me beat sulking around without peers to help me manage my personal brand’s social presence.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2021

Innovation-thinking banks and fintech startups use natural language processing to augment intelligent chatbots into the customer experience. This fintech startup from San Francisco used conversational AI and NLP technologies to develop a financial assistant that allows users to manage personal finances by simple text or voice commands.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Hint — focus on the problem and not on the solution Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This fit illudes both new startups creating their very first product as it does established organizations seeking to expand their product portfolio. Tido Carriero A Lean Alternative to a Business Plan: Documenting Your Product/Market Fit Hypotheses - Sachin Rekhi.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Time goes by, runway decreases. Eventually they run out of cash and shut down.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

In this article, We will tackle what goes wrong with today’s product roadmaps, and we will talk about how a fast-paced mid-size startup found exciting ways to create a roadmap that’s indeed achievable. Post-creation of this document, it will be shared with all the relevant stakeholders. They treat it as a static document.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You can learn many core product skills from internships, especially if you get a chance to intern at startups. Tip 2: Case Studies Case studies are a document or a presentation that showcases your problem-solving skills. Case studies focus on thought processes, ideation, documentation & problem-solving.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2023

GQM Use in Ancient Times On a recent product requirements document, I laid out measures of success using an old favorite: Goal-Question-Metric (GQM). For example, with Minnesota Innovation, these two questions… What is the number of startups that are founded or relocated to Minnesota per year, and how does it compare to other states?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Everyone pokes fun at the user interface (UI), but it’s useful for document and content management, and it’s very easy to learn, especially for non technical users. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day. However, there was one big problem.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Whether the medium is a ‘PRD’ (product requirements document), user story, or link to prototypes, there are endless ‘best practices’ and tips for how to do it best. I wrote up the requirements so comprehensively that technical documentation folks could take a vacation day when writing up the feature. Considered edge cases. Excuse me?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub) and Daniel Gross (former Y Combinator partner) are investing $100 million in a startup called Magic that’s looking to replace engineers. ’ I literally took our persona documents, made it a PDF, uploaded it to the GPT (as knowledge), and made a GPT to talk to our personas.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

all the ingredients of a great startup experience! In a pay-it-forward kind of way, my team and I are sharing what we have learned to-date in a series of posts that hopefully will be useful to you whether you are at a startup or a larger organization. Review company documents and presentations. Do your research.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation. This document will serve as a reference.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Create a quarterly and annual tax processes document that includes: contact information for go-to sources of information, methods of internal controls; communication expectations, specific deadlines for stages of preparation and for filing. Don’t slack off; tax preparation is an important part of your company’s financial strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The registration link and documentation links are prominent and easy to navigate. API Documentation The API endpoint documentation is broken up in an understandable way. The API appears to be useful to startups and more established partners making it more likely to be available in the long run.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Requirements Legal experts and startups will create compliance scorecards for AI creators in the next few months. Deployment : Disclose the model’s availability in the EU market, present non-human-generated content to users, and provide the documentation for downstream compliance.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. No offense, but technical documentation is one of the tasks I used to hate most in product management. Back to Twiggle. When I hired that freelance tech writer our product was already running with a few customers. Guess what?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

The importance of UX research for enterprise customers and B2B companies cannot be overstated, particularly for mature SaaS providers and startups. Budget Considerations for UX Research Conducting research within budget constraints, particularly for startups, requires strategic planning and resourcefulness.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Dear Strategy: “Do startups or small businesses really have the time to develop formal strategies like you talk about on the show? Both follow the same basic formula, but a formal process would typically be guided by some level of documentation and control. What do you suggest for those types of companies?”. . DOWNLOAD FRAMEWORK.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

AI powered systems are adept at reading 1000s of documents and automatically classifying them into the right categories. Sorting through and organizing high volumes of unstructured documents can be time consuming and painful. Organizations that receive documents from multiple channels (paper, email, electronic fax, FTP, etc.)

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In this episode, sponsored by #mtpcon Digital , listen to learn about: * How to document well. * Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. The ‘One Page / One Hour’ technique. * Co-creating as a team. Making the most of your time.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. Have you ever read a strategy document or got someone to present to you the strategy and couldn’t figure out what they wanted to say? In the seed stage, startups are a great promise.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Get written resources Ask for documents sent now. Let there be awkward silence for a moment when you ask what documents, emails, correspondence, PRDs, epics, whatever, you should look at. Often there are always some documents, even if they are old and obsolete. You need to get up to speed, fast. Connect with me on Twitter.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2021

Google Drive includes some fantastic features allowing you to create documents that your team can edit, share, and save. Like Google Drive, OneDrive allows you to edit documents simultaneously and in real-time. This solution allows you to save your data like music, pictures, documents, etc., per month, 200 GB for $3.99

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sam was also a principal investor at Google Ventures, has founded six startups, and was the SVP of engineering at Box through their IPO. While at Google, Sam helped lead many of Google’s consumer products, including Gmail, Blogger, PageCreator, Picasa, Reader, Groups, and more recently Maps and Google Automotive Services.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

I created an onboarding document to help frame the work, people, and history the new PM would encounter during their first 30, 60, and 90 days. Start the onboarding document by welcoming the new hire and setting the foundation for the information they’re about to consume. A new product manager is joining my team in a few weeks.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Over the years, the company has publicly documented many of its processes. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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