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. Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. But in product management that is never true. Just having the tool in front of you won’t do that.

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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

JUNE 18, 2023

You are going to invest a ton of money in developing the right product for the market (hence the importance of product-market fit ), but once you have it, and you know how to sell it, you can scale exponentially. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits. Many startups fall into this category. Many blue-ocean startups start here.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Marty said that most companies spend most of their time trying to minimize the feasibility and usability risks, but the far more important risks to manage are the value and business viability risks. Especially with startups, by the way, which Marty mentioned to be “ so easily distracted ”. They are also the hardest to minimize.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Especially in product management, where authority is limited, you need to act beyond the limits of formality. Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash I once coached a very talented senior product manager. Challenge Upwards The CEO, startup founders, or your management chain up to the CEO, have authority over you.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

is the CPO of a startup in transition. In fact, the lean startup approach says that there will always be a better one around the corner, but you must take the turn first to see it. Debate these characteristics within management. Sounds confusing? But here are quick methods to take you out of the talking and into action.

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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? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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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. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. 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.

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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. It sounds scary, but for some companies?—?especially

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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? Simple: Product analytics tools have become super easy to set up and use. Now, I encourage product managers to just start getting their hands dirty with the data and see what they come up with.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. One of my favorites is to ask someone to play your devil’s advocate (which is what I do with the startups I’m advising to) and take their feedback super seriously. It always helps.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. Most people wouldn’t even know that it’s missing. Guess what? Guess what?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The role of the product leader goes far beyond managing the product department. Here is your true responsibility as a product leader, so that it’s no longer a secret. Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Most of the CEOs I work with, understand that the role of the product leader is very important.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Especially when done as an afterthought - when the product is already in the market?—?it 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.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

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. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. But hiring leaders is hard.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Many startups fall into this category. Many blue-ocean startups start here. If people don’t want to get far, far away, even if your product can teleport them, it won’t succeed. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an If your pitch says you are “reinventing something”?—?that’s

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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

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. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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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. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an 50 people or so?—?the

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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

JANUARY 24, 2021

Photo by Ono Kosuki from Pexels OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are a useful tool for goal setting and team alignment, and in recent years they have gone from being used primarily in quantitative parts of the organization (namely sales and marketing) to being very popular in product and technology as well. That’s easy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

As a startup, you usually work so hard to bring each customer, that the thought of losing them is literally painful. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an So I decided to put in writing what I usually say to these companies and how to do it right. not looking backward is easier than ever before.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As product leaders, we constantly struggle to balance between getting guidance from above and setting the direction ourselves. The CEO, or any of the founders if you are in a startup, seems to rightfully want to set the tone. Or do they? Here are 3 things you want to pay attention to. Everyone will benefit from it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

That’s why although CEOs sometimes tell me that they want the vision to come from the product leader, I believe that what they usually mean is that they want the product leader to take their own larger vision and shape it into something that the entire company can work with to bring this vision to life. Make sure your paper works.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Working in the startup nation, many of the product leaders I coach?—?either used to be engineers or even mathematicians before they shifted to product. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. We also have a weekly newsletter, Product Rantz. Kalungi blog.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

This point is so important that I want to emphasize it once more: you can educate the market to use your product if the potential customers have a strong unmet need that your product can answer. The #1 reason that startups fail is that they make something nobody wants.

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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. They don’t actually use the product, or not as frequently as you would like them to. That’s the first 2 A’s.

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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. By doing so you will be helping your customers, the company, the management, and yourself.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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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. Technical debt is an area that always causes heated arguments between product and engineering. But beware?—?with Are you ready for it?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

My free e-book “Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit”? —?an an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on January 4, 2020. Oh, and you’ll also enjoy the ride.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

A lot of information and knowledge comes your way when you’re a new Product Manager. But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?) So let’s dive in.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my work with startups I noticed two common pitfalls?—?opposite Photo by Daniel Abbatt from Pexels The best startups I work with have truly embraced the lean startup methodology. Working with dozens of startups, I do see, however, companies that are implementing it wrong. Lean Startup is no different in that sense.

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