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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

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. In the seed stage, startups are a great promise. The product the founders had in mind was naturally a smart e-commerce search engine.

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Are You Bounded by Authority?

The Product Coalition

The project was stuck in engineering for a long time. On one hand, he knew the project wasn’t in good shape and something needed to change, but on the other hand, engineering kept giving him fluff answers. Challenge Upwards The CEO, startup founders, or your management chain up to the CEO, have authority over you. That’s a fact.

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The appliance of science: Mark Roberge’s formula for scaling

Intercom, Inc.

As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.” Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information. Mark’s latest ebook, The Science of Scaling , outlines a precise framework for success.

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432: Creating or improving the product-led organization – with Paul Ortchanian

Product Innovation Educators

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. We’re willing to give you engineering credits for $300,000, but the total cost is $ 1 million.”

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The top marketing statistics for 2018 and why they matter

Intercom, Inc.

3 minutes: The average “dwell time” – time spent on page – for a top 10 Google search result is 3 minutes; for text-only blog posts, that’s just shy of 1,000 words ( Search Engine Land, 2016 ). Content as a growth engine for your business. 2: YouTube is the second most popular search engine in the world ( Alexa, 2018 ).

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Four Fundamental Mistakes You Are Making With Product OKRs

The Product Coalition

When a startup grows, there comes a time when they decide to work with OKRs (or any other goal-setting methodology) across the board for the first time. But what about product and engineering? including at least the product and the engineering departments. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Insight From Marty Cagan’s Coach the Coaches Workshop (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

The Israeli Perspective In London, I felt that Israel truly is the startup nation. One example that made me realize that I live in a startup nation was when one of the coaches attending the workshop shared that they were working with the IT department of one of the largest airlines to transform it into a great product organization.

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