The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Looking at long-term goals is definitely one of the things that make any strategy hard to build, but for product strategy that is not the hardest part.

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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.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

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. It comes down to making sure there is a product leadership team. Not really.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

While it’s true generally as an approach to life (in psychology it’s called an internal locus of control), today I want to talk about its implication when you create your strategy. Strategy Is a Choice It is very tempting to approach strategy as if there is a right answer that we only need to find. But strategy isn’t as simple.

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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

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. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups. It’s scary, but you don’t have to do it alone.

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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. We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. Hiring a product leader is never easy.

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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. Even after the disease is contained, the resulting economic slowdown will stay here for much longer.

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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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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

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. When it comes to your portfolio strategy and product investment priorities, they should reflect the investment priorities of your target customers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. In the evolution of a startup, the founders initially do whatever they can themselves. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. Strategy is hard. If there is an easy way out, maybe the real constraint is somewhere else. That’s the crux of the problem.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both As the VP Product at a startup, I knew I had to work hands-on, and hiring a product manager to take the load off of me would happen only when it became absolutely necessary. both in the short and long term. and during?—?the

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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. My specialty as a strategic consultant and product executive coach is this complex triangle where the product meets the strategy and the business.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy. Here are 3 such examples.

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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. This also fits nicely into your desire to give them enough leadership room. These can be things related to the product or the strategy?—?for

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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. If you are a founder of a startup for product management tools, it’s important that you understand the large ecosystem your tool would live in. It’s no wonder there are many tools that try to resolve this. Here’s why.

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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. Once you understand what is it exactly, you can formulate a strategy. For example, my strategic consulting clients usually need me when they realize they have a product strategy problem (even if they don’t call it that way).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In my work with companies on creating the product strategy, there are often pitfalls that are easy to overlook in figuring out if the problem you are solving is a good one to solve. They take an opportunity to grow in their career, say as the CPO of a startup or as a Director in a larger company. 50 people or so?—?the

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

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. I was super proud of my drawing and thought this is as challenging as it goes until I landed at Twiggle. Are you up for the challenge?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

the CPO of a startup that has a great product in the market asked me with a sigh. Going all-in into data and measurements is not trivial, and even more so when you are a startup that has good traction and hence a lot of other product investments you want to make. That was the question that S. ,

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. If you have worked in an early-stage startup, you have most likely witnessed, participated in, or led this process. How detailed?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2023

An example of the latter is something I had with a healthcare startup I worked with. If there is no immediate fit with your strategy, but the request overall makes sense market-wise, this usually falls in the bucket of ‘it depends’ or ‘maybe someday’. These are important buckets that you want to allow yourself to have.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You can sign up here and join 28k other subscribers Download the 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Ebook The free 71 Product Owner Interview Questions PDF is not merely listing the questions, but also contains background information on: Why the questions are useful in the process, and… A range of appropriate answers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2020

A few months ago, just before the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel, I reviewed dozens of startups and had to rate them based on predefined criteria, recommending some of them for the program and ruling out others. One of the questions the applicants needed to answer was about the impact their startup has already made. It sounds irrational?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 12, 2022. 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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Working in the startup nation, many of the product leaders I coach?—?either an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on September 7, 2022. The whole point in math is that there is a clear set of rules that defines the universe.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Other than crystalizing your assumptions and strategy, this stage is about results. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

The first class I took was “ Foundations of Strategy “. I ended up majoring in Strategy and Entrepreneurship and realized that the right professional direction for me is no longer in R&D. Do Strategy and Tech Go Together? On the other hand, there is the tech world, and lean startup, and agile.

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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

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. You simply don’t know, and therefore don’t know what needs to be done, if at all.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 2, 2022

For example, I had a participant in one of my CPO Bootcamps, a VP Product in a mature startup, who did extensive research into their pricing model. an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on December 29, 2021.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In a vacuum, your resume or LinkedIn profile might leave people with more questions than answers: Why did you leave Microsoft for some startup that failed? To learn more about how IMPACT can help with your career and other dimensions of product management, download the free ebook today.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Moreover, in smaller teams who need to move fast, and particularly in startups where there is still a large functional debt to close, allocating a considerable amount of the resources to technical debt prevents you from optimizing the work and delivering value fast enough. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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