Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. Targeted to startups, scale-ups or SMB organizations It takes place over 12 weeks, live via Google Meet. Where do I manage the roadmap?

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. He has a great deal of experience that has helped him be well-rounded in product management. Not really.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? If they can’t be the professional mentor of the product manager, what is it that they should be doing?

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. Product managers often refer to their product vision as “my north star.” Of course, investors will get on board with anything that supports financial growth but product managers don’t work with investors on a daily basis.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. But the point I want to make today isn’t about relationships, and still, that’s what the story is about.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash As a proud member of the startup nation, startups are all around me. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true. The problems are much bigger.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. It’s Not About the Plumbing When we work with startups it’s usually a long-term relationship. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager. Hiring a product leader is never easy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

Unfortunately, it’s very common that the management or founding team doesn’t see them eye to eye. especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This step is usually great to debate within the management team. But that’s where your leadership comes to a test.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups. PLG is a name for a very specific methodology — where B2B software is sold from the users up to management and not vice versa.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention? Now, I encourage product managers to just start getting their hands dirty with the data and see what they come up with. Tying analytics to business goals in a product-led startup.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The role of the product leader goes far beyond managing the product department. Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. Why This Happens Product management is a unique role in so many ways.

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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. In the seed stage, startups are a great promise. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. Level 1: Painting Within the Lines In my first official product role I joined Imperva, then still a relatively young company with ~100 employees, as the product manager of their database security product. Where are you now? Are you up for the challenge?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Problem-solving is one of the core characteristics of product managers. Photo by Xavi Cabrera on Unsplash When I was head of product at eBay I participated in an executive leadership training program. At this point, the panel almost unanimously agreed, that to succeed you must be someone who solves problems for senior management.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. And if your product is so innovative that you are aiming to create a new category as many startups do, it’s even worse. The truth is quite different. In fact, if you rely on your demo too much, you won’t be able to sell at all.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

They take an opportunity to grow in their career, say as the CPO of a startup or as a Director in a larger company. But both them and their managers think they can do it or otherwise, they wouldn’t have gotten this job. They typically know that they would need to learn on the job since they know they haven’t done this before.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Seeing Revenue From a New Product This is one of the mistakes that I see very often in my work with startup founders: you launch a new product and you put revenue goals for a few months down the road, typically a quarter. Some of the startups absolutely must have these results soon enough in order to be able to raise the next round.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

A generic segmentation like “startups of 50–100 people” is not good enough for two reasons. Are they struggling to convince management to secure a budget? You Know Who They Are This isn’t something to look for externally but rather internally. The first is that organizations don’t have problems, people do. It’s pivot time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The CEO, or any of the founders if you are in a startup, seems to rightfully want to set the tone. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on December 8, 2022. Or do they?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Working in the startup nation, many of the product leaders I coach?—?either Adopt a Risk Management Mindset One of the things I hear very frequently from product leaders in these situations is that they don’t know for certain and therefore cannot decide. Risk management means, by definition, that some risks need to be taken.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. Naturally, this means that it needs to address aspects that are not necessarily within your direct control as the manager of the product department. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. the strategic level that matters.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

When I first started teaching product management (at IDC’s Adelson School of Entrepreneurship ), I needed a way to break down strategic product thinking into distinct components that would help people understand and focus on one aspect each time. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

In startups, it means building an MVP right away, and in larger companies, it would be yearly goals and initiatives that are pushed down to the people who need to execute on them. whether you are a startup on its way to product-market fit or already in the growth stage. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on July 27, 2022. We’ll talk about it next week, so stay tuned.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

If you ever worked in a B2B startup, you know that you are chasing opportunities. On a B2B startup, it can look something like this: people are willing to talk to you, and you get a few POCs. But the truth is, that not only will it not result in a positive impact, it can also actually cause you harm. That’s the first 2 A’s.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on August 3, 2022. But understanding what the journey looks like should help you navigate smartly along the way.

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Sequent Learning

MAY 20, 2021

Mike Belsito is a co-founder of Product Collective , which organizes INDUSTRY , one of the largest product management summits anywhere in the world. For his leadership at Product Collective, Mike was named one of the top 40 influencers in the field of product management. Amazing conference. You got to go to it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Technical debt is always a hot discussion topic between product managers and engineers. My recommendation is that product managers own it like they own any other feature. I’ve heard engineers saying that product isn’t letting them do things right, and product managers who claim that engineering is always stalling things.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Taking risks is an inherent part of product leadership. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, we had a management off-site with some outdoor activities. Everything Is Risk Management Almost every decision we make as product leaders is related to risk management.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That was the case with Infinify, my product leadership academy, when I decided to “give it a try” while I always have the option to go back to a CPO role in the industry. One area where I see this phenomenon of unrealistic expectations in many startups is regarding the sales process of their product. Wait, scratch that.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. This is especially true for a startup that by definition has limited resources.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

An Israeli startup, Sightful, uses a similar concept of screens displayed in space for another use case — productivity. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on March 7, 2024.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

Product managers need to talk to customers. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash In SVPG’s Coach the Coaches workshop held last month in London, Marty Cagan talked about the fact that product managers must have direct access to customers. Raviv was a seasoned manager with many years of experience. I felt so grateful.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2021

Taking risks is an inherent part of product leadership. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels When I was VP Product at Twiggle, we had a management off-site with some outdoor activities. Everything Is Risk Management Almost every decision we make as product leaders is related to risk management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation. When I work with startups on creating their product strategy, I usually leave them with homework to revise the strategy based on today’s discussion before our next meeting.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. With or without my help, I hope you manage to get on the other side of the crisis stronger and healthier.

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