The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey. How many is a few?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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ProductBoard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Written by Dan Olsen, Product Management Consultant and Author, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. When Instagram first launched, there were already many photo sharing mobile apps on the market. Why was Instagram’s product so successful? Source.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. You Cannot Educate the Market if the Need Isn’t There Last week I talked about ways to educate the market , ones that can actually work despite the fact that educating the market is hard and usually not recommended.

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ProductBoard

JUNE 22, 2020

This post is an excerpt from our ebook, “Building excellent products in the age of remote work,” written to help you overcome today’s unique challenges and focus on what really matters—building excellent products that customers truly need. Even before COVID-19, the writing was on the wall for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

If you have mediocre marketing and sales people, it wouldn’t work. If you have good marketing and sales people, they will be able to sell the product to some extent based on their network and talent. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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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

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. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s also the biggest problem with most product vision statements and the reason no one is getting lathered up over them! 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.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. One of the things I say about it is that strategy starts with the goals.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. A great product — unlike many promises you might have heard — wouldn’t sell itself. But how would marketing and sales know what to work on?

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Introducing ProductExcellence.co, the product management community’s resource hub for all things Product Excellence, and Productboard’s most in-depth ebook yet. We call these the pillars of.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The course covers basics like assessing target opportunities, building software products, and how to launch a great product. The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. product manager, product owner, product marketing, etc.)

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Note: not all the gaps are product gaps.

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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. It is much closer to the company strategy in how broad it is.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked. This is especially true with product strategy, which is still an artifact that most CEOs haven’t seen a great one in action before.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

But if you’re responsible for the success of your company’s products, you can’t just relax. Markets and technologies change. By changing your app to a SaaS solution, you’re going to help give your industry the most convenient, user-friendly tool on the market. Doing this also serves another purpose.

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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

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 12, 2023

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. Send this to your CEO friends so that they know how to hire the right person the right way.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. He also helps middle market and scrappy companies generate new product strategies for significant, sustainable growth. Often there’s a lack of awareness of product management.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. It was a countermeasure to the popular symptom of product managers doing their real work?—?market Working on the product strategy” is way too vague.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With so many social media posts, blogs, videos, ebooks, and podcasts, it’s hard to keep up. But beyond the obvious bullet points, such as “maintaining a product roadmap” and “understanding customer and market needs,” our VP of Product Annie Dunham says she’s looking for PMs to go above and beyond in certain areas.

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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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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

JULY 16, 2023

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 July 12, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Being a product-led company is a business decision that is manifested first and foremost through the organizational culture. Product-led growth, on the other hand, is a specific growth model in which the product actually serves as the sales and marketing tool for its own growth. But can you afford not to?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

When you consider the ideal customer profile, you need to get yourself into your customers’ world and deeply understand what they need to go through before they are ready to buy your product. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an Make yourself an expert in this area as well.

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Centercode

JUNE 4, 2019

Below is a summary of our discussion on the testing strategies that bring delightful VR products to market. You can’t get a holistic view of a commercial product by testing it before it’s feature complete. Customer Validation in 20 Minutes [EBOOK]. Evaluating Real-World VR Performance.

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