The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

But on the other hand, they need you there, and if you give too much weight to their leadership you can’t become their partner. That’s not the leadership team that they need. A CEO once shared with me that in his relationship with product leadership, he feels that he is giving much more than he is getting. That’s a fact.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes tough market conditions, but it can also be an opportunity. It’s an opportunity for clarity.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. We have so many of them regardless.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Another strategic note about startups that almost goes without saying if you follow my writing, is that before you have product-market fit, finding it should be your only focus.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The market, however, understood it differently. 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. These terms are often confused because when your product is still young, you truly need to develop new features to win contracts.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It’s much more important to say that we are trying to establish initial signals of product-market fit than to say that we need a certain ARR value. Product development is such an uncertain world, both from the outside and from within. You keep learning new things about the market, and delivery always takes longer than planned.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. One of the common situations where this conflict arises is when you take a new product leadership role. Here is how to give the CEO what they need while staying true to your professional standards.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Gainsight

JULY 12, 2023

Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, and other teams to align customer success objectives with overall company goals. Apply this knowledge to shape the future of our customer success function, driving innovation and thought leadership. Learn More Want to know more about what makes a great CS leader?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. For example, one of the most innovative ideas I had throughout my career was Twiggle’s product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. If you have a product marketing manager, this is a good opportunity to involve them.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. The Product Executive Certificate is geared toward senior-level professionals with experience in a product leadership role. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. 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. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you are in B2B, the profile is most likely a market segment (company sizes, industries, etc.). Try including marketing, sales, customer success, and the CEO in the discussion. If you are in B2C it’s usually different personas. Ideally, this should be a group exercise. Next week I’ll talk about how to address them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership. Do we want it to come from a specific product or market segment? Company-level goals are typically set by management, and as a product leader, it’s your job to help management clarify these goals further.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Backed by a rich business background, he took over the sales and marketing departments and started to put them on an operational pace that created stability and transparency. took over the product department as well, but here he tackled a challenge he wasn’t prepared for. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2023

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. 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 April 18, 2023. Here’s how.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. The Broader the Better The product leader’s role includes much more than managing the product team and the product work.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. Throughout our career as product people, working well with others was probably one of the most effective skills we all had to master.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. Here’s why and how.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks. I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

But when you are still before product-market fit, it means that the product still needs to change and evolve until it is the right thing for your customers. If the only thing preventing you from reaching product-market fit is additional features, you are lucky (or simply wrong ??

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Truly defining the product includes many other things, like which problem it solves, for whom, the value proposition and why it makes sense business-wise ?—?considering considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Customers in the specific market segment we are operating in are unhappy with the products our competitors offer. By bringing in new, innovative technology, we can deliver a product that customers are truly happy with. Your leadership role doesn’t end when the CEO gives you a general direction and expects you to follow.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Start by talking to business stakeholders, like your leadership, customer success, marketing and more. This is particularly important when you’re product-led. (For Across the board, user journeys are increasingly digital—and that’s a good thing for product marketers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit. than on paper when they started.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Strategic product thinking is hard. Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it I created a model called “The Product Circuit”, which I have since used in product strategy processes with dozens of companies and in my lectures when I explain the journey to product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Be a great manager and give your team the support as well as the boundaries and leadership that they need. 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 October 13, 2022.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Here are three things that if you include in your product requirements would make your life easier and help your developers deliver on what you really intended, not on what you told them to build. I didn’t call him that at the time, but he taught me so much and helped me shape my leadership style and principles.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

As a product leadership academy, we have many presentations. They are one of the main vehicles to share our knowledge, for example through guest lectures for product teams in various companies and of course through the CPO Bootcamp learning sessions and workshops.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Photo by Xavi Cabrera on Unsplash When I was head of product at eBay I participated in an executive leadership training program. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an It is a slightly different skill to master, but very important for your ability to succeed. How to do that?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Much of the learning is about the market and the needs you all have. It happens through applying strategic product discovery processes (the same ones I advise my clients to use) and constantly listening to the market. They could be market changes — now is a great time to offer AI-related training services, for example.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 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.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on February 16, 2023.

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