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

Intercom, Inc.

Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information. Those risks can be fatal: Mark has found a 75% failure rate for both Series A and Series C startups (as he presented during his 2019 SaaStr talk.). A data-driven framework for scaling.

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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

Each such level requires a different skill level and different frameworks, and moving from one to another (at least to doing it well) might take time and practice. Level 3: Deciding What to Draw When I joined Twiggle — a seed stage startup — as the VP of Product, I thought I was extremely ready. Are you up for the challenge?

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Insight From Marty Cagan’s Coach the Coaches Workshop (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

One thing Marty said in the workshop, however, made me quote this framework much more and use it when I help my customers understand where they should focus their energy. “ That’s what makes it so hard! Especially with startups, by the way, which Marty mentioned to be “ so easily distracted ”.

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Best way to use product feedback to design product features!

Usersnap

Ulwick’s outcome-driven innovation framework helps us a lot to focus on the truly important product features. Free eBook: How to build products users love (interviews with Trello, Prezi and HotelTonight). Free eBook: How to turn product feedback into product value (interviews with Typeform, Drift and FreeNow).

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Creating Clarity in a Complex Reality

The Product Coalition

It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others. Identifying Bottlenecks I write here a lot about the pirates’ metrics framework. One of the ways in which I recommend using the framework is rating yourself in green-yellow-red for each category.

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Insights: Using product analytics to find metrics that predict retention

Mixpanel

Tying analytics to business goals in a product-led startup. You might be at a startup, but it’s not the Wild West; you still need to tie your metrics back to bigger business goals. Retention is a key metric for any startup: Here’s a quick example for how to predict it. The sooner you start having these conversations, the better.

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How to Create a Product Vision That Energizes Stakeholders

Product Management University

Free eBook: Top-Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY Sample Portfolio Vision “ To help our customers grow revenue, market share, wallet share and customer retention. Your portfolio vision would be directed at your economic buyer, the CRO (chief revenue officer). “ Let’s give it the acid test.

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