The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). a skateboard.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One thing above all makes a successful startup: people who purchase and love the product. If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). But how come it’s so challenging to reach success as a startup?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. How to obtain product judgment. Product Judgment does exist, and it is learned. It is not innate. This is not enough.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

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, and rightfully so.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. We will cover what they are, why you need them, and how to create one for your SaaS business using real examples. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. GTM Strategy vs Marketing Strategy – What’s the Difference?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In this guide, we’ll go over what sentiment analysis is, why you should do it, and look at 10 sentiment examples! TL;DR Sentiment analysis helps you monitor the opinions, emotions, and feelings (sentiment) of customers towards your product or brand. Source: G2.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. Chaos Report 2015. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2016

Every startup I've worked at folks have lamented about how there were never enough resources to accomplish everything they wanted to. Whether it was not enough engineers to build the desired features, not enough designers to design those experiences, not enough marketers to drum up interest, or not enough salespeople to generate revenue.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I was then told I need to understand product market fit , if I was to truly appreciate how the lean model is applied throughout the product lifecycle. And to that end, one of my biggest objections to many of the products on the market today, is that there is no discernable difference between them.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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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. The superpower became a weakness. And if your product is so innovative that you are aiming to create a new category as many startups do, it’s even worse.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Being sales-led or product-led is a strategic decision of the company, that goes all the way up to the very basic business model you are betting your success on. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

The Israeli Perspective In London, I felt that Israel truly is the startup nation. for good and bad. 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). A group of experts still doesn’t make a great team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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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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Mixpanel

MARCH 16, 2023

At Mixpanel, we live this in our cross-functional product-led growth (PLG) strategy , where we use data and self-serve analysis to better understand the full customer journey from discovering and trying the product to finding value and success with it. This included the data analysis team. Mixpanel is a gold mine.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

A successful product manages to deliver value to customers. Value Proposition Canvas can help you decide what features to develop to provide value to users. A solid value proposition communicates the benefits of your product without over-promising. Kano model helps you prioritize feature development.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. was the COO of a Series C startup. So if you need the team to focus on a certain area?—?say

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. 15 years ago we founded a product development studio, Mint Digital, and we’ve launched at least 100 MVPs since then. That’s the tug of genuine market enthusiasm. StickyGram. Not at all.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. What to do before building a team for your SaaS company You can’t just jump into hiring without some forethought, or you’ll make many mistakes.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. As a product marketer , it is your job to identify the best target audience for your product, while also finding the best pricing options, distribution channels, and unique value propositions.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. This case study focuses on Lean Product Validation, but the chart below gives an overview of our entire customer discovery process and the steps we followed. The Approach.

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