Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps. Marketing Programs : Marketing Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either. He is a few years out of school and interested in getting into product. He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s become passionate about technology and wants to make a career switch. Work at a startup.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources?

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry. What was amazing about this opportunity is that I got to see lots of technical roles in that short time. At the time I thought this would be the perfect mix of my passion for finance and software engineering.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Ken Norton offers lots of valuable insights based on years of experience in his Bring the Donuts product manager blog. Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Hacker Noon blog articles deliver a wealth of technical insights. First Round’s The Review.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. It’s important for an early-stage startup with limited resources.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

The Israeli Perspective In London, I felt that Israel truly is the startup nation. They are not even Amazon and Google which were born as tech product companies and are now large corporates (that have major product centers in Israel as well). but very different from the majority of the tech industry here in Israel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They’ve infused some incredibly satisfying sound effects into their product design and you can check it out here. Other products worth checking out this week include a new customer support startup called Plain. Shopify has expanded its Shop and Shop Cash products to the web. Full State of Tech Salaries report.

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Usersnap

MAY 19, 2022

Think of product-market fit (PMF) as sailing: the product is the sail and demand is the wind. For the boat to work or to make your dreams come true, you need to build a sail (product) and find the wind to power it (or satisfy the needs of the market, and its potential customers). Everyone is going to love it.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When I asked them their biggest learning on the trip so far, they said- We have to learn how to pitch our startup in the “American” way More self promotional, emphasizing the future not the past, talking about what it could be not what it is, playing up even small bits of proof points, etc. TLDR; there’s pitch mode and dinner party mode.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I've found the best way for a product manager to learn to develop a vision is to immerse yourself in a collection of compelling product visions as inspiration for your own. Below is a collection of my favorite vision statements from a variety of successful technology companies over the years.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The product management career path can be incredibly fulfilling as you build and work on products used by millions of users around the world. However, a PM career looks different than other roles in tech. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

On realizing he’s still too integral to the business, Peldi started the ‘Winter 2018 Injected Turbulence Project’ – delegated product design and engineering management, deleted Slack and witter from his phone, and stopped watching their internal wiki. 2 – Product & UX. What did he learn? Watch Peldi's Talk.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. I started as a product manager and ended up as the VP of product. How to use technology to create something. That was the business part.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

I remember how early in my career I pushed my engineering team to add a carousel type feature to make it easy to jump from one user profile to the next. They never accumulated any substantial product management scar tissue. Start a startup, business or something: Become a (startup) founder of literally anything.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Despite this generally accepted understanding, coordinating product releases of any size can still get messy. Jeffrey Vocell. Company: HubSpot.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

There’s even content on how to land your first product job , what to do when your buyers aren’t your users , and implementing continuous discovery at startups. Department of Product. This company’s bread and butter is training product managers, but their blog doles out a ton of useful content for anyone interested in the field.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

By the time their work is finished and ready to ship, they have seen it, thought about it, and reviewed it a thousand times. In contrast, bug-bashing is done by people outside of the project team , usually a few teammates from Product, Design, and Engineering, plus a couple of people from Product Marketing, Customer Success, or Sales.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

There may be a sales strategy, a marketing strategy, and product strategy, and operational strategy, an technology strategy, etc. Diffusion of Focus Product strategy is especially tricky because of the centrality of a product to any business. Marketing has to talk about it. Engineering has to build it.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2024

With so many alternatives on review sites, it’s a bit tricky to really choose one. No-code growth is a method of achieving product-led growth (using your own product as a lever and revenue growth channel) without coding, using no-code tools. Is Appcues or UserGuiding the best tool for no-code growth?

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. Aside from the historically tight labor market for these skills, it’s also tricky to have a simple answer to the question.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Atari also elected to skip audience testing due to the time constraints, trusting instead that the popularity of the IP and a timely seasonal release would boost sales. Look for Product Market Fit. You need to do this for every new product you plan to launch, instead of relying on customer insights from your previous product.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

Copywriting, while often thought of as something creative and inspired, is a technical craft. It’s a product unto itself. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. Keyword research answers an important question: What words do people use to describe the pain point your product solves—at scale?

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Userpilot

APRIL 4, 2022

When your startup is planning to enter new markets, supporting local languages becomes a top priority. However, that’s not all product managers must consider when building a product localization strategy for the first time. Marketing will plan ad campaigns in the new markets. Communication is key!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Pros of Heap Easy to set up without technical skills Thanks to auto-capture, you don't have to define events you want to track Real-time reports Cons of Heap Heap is a fairly complex tool, so may not be suitable for beginners It creates a lot of data which may be expensive to store and difficult to retrieve What do users say about Heap?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. For starters, your first interview at Google will be a phone screen with a recruiter.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Crafted by design, engineered to keep customers close. Products live within markets that are constantly changing, making planning a difficult process. Focus shifts away from the user problems, and towards the technical aspects of building the solutions. Products are built for the user, not for us.

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