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3 Must-Have Product Leadership Skills to Survive an Economic Downturn

The Product Coalition

We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. 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. It always helps.

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How to Create a Product Vision That Energizes Stakeholders

Product Management University

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. “ Let’s give it the acid test. It passes the test on all fronts. It simplifies everything!

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Not Everyone Has to Be Your Customer

The Product Coalition

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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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Most of the CEOs I work with, understand that the role of the product leader is very important. Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. It is much closer to the company strategy in how broad it is.

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3 Blind Spots in Your Product Leader Interviews (Company Side)

The Product Coalition

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.

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3 Reasons Your Customers Aren’t Buying Your Product

The Product Coalition

Each one ran a series of tests over a few hours, and told me I’m a good fit for the surgery. 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. I went to two of the top clinics in my area.

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How Product-Market Fit Really Works (Part 1)

The Product Coalition

One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. When you have a profile, test it for a while to see if you got it right. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an We’ll talk about it next week, so stay tuned.