The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Scenario two – startup has a grand idea. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. Next, the team positioned the current products against those needs. The founders identified a need in the market and delivered a successful first product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

Photo by Josh Calabrese on Unsplash A team working agreement is essentially a documented set of ground rules that a team creates to hold each other accountable to positive behaviors. It’s a common element of a team startup or launch, and strong teams often revisit their team norms. The Personal Map exercise by Management 3.0.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both As the VP Product at a startup, I knew I had to work hands-on, and hiring a product manager to take the load off of me would happen only when it became absolutely necessary. both in the short and long term. and during?—?the

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. However, if you stay in this cycle, you will barely grow further and evolve enough to reach higher positions. ☕ The Next Step You have landed your dream job. Life is good!

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Product Talk

JULY 6, 2022

But the positive side of that is that we’re living in a time period where anybody can get product experience. But the positive side of that is that we’re living in a time period where anybody can get product experience. I can still run through a hypothetical exercise. Nobody wants to hire somebody without experience.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Through this event, she found a three-month internship as a Web Developer at a startup that was developing an online insurance marketplace. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. The Cardinal sin: no Questions for Your Interviewers. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Despite discovering useful techniques and exercises and experimenting with workshop formats, templates and canvases, we weren’t finding a process that ticked all our must-haves whilst also taking into consideration the constraints on the product leader? During the workshop, the group will complete: Vision Primer exercise ? Tangible?—?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2024

This is especially true for startups and new products. It’s proven to be a valuable exercise that you can do both individually and collaboratively (it makes for a good team workshop). “No niche is too small if it’s yours”  — Seth Godin We’ve all heard the saying, “if you try to please everyone, you please no one.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. But you know how it works, this initial traction is very delicate, and alongside these positive signals there are legitimate concerns, so the decision to move forward with it is not trivial.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Asking what your team should keep doing highlights the positive things that are deep in the culture of your organization that are necessary for future success. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It will take some time to discern just how fundamentally our political and social discourse will be changed by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, but just as with every revolution, it will lead to both positive and negative outcomes, to both delight and disillusionment. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. .

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Below are some of the high-level category of KPIs you want to continuously measure and many of them would have come out of the exercises we covered in the previous couple of posts. As I mentioned above, once you have defined your business formula and found your critical event, the rest is relatively simple.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

In our specially designed auditions, product managers perform real-world exercises to assess how they think about problems in an environment where nobody from the company knows anything about their experience, their background, or their formal education. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You’ll travel far and wide before you find a tech startup that doesn’t pride itself on this claim. You start to eat healthier, exercise at least three times a week, and vow to cut down on those midnight grilled-cheese sandwiches. “We are a data-driven company”. Too Much Data, too Often. Imagine you are trying to lose a few kilos.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them. They have a healthy disrespect for the impossible, and are looking to make a positive impact on the world. Graduates Need Opportunities. Affordability.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Asking what your team should keep doing highlights the positive things that are deep in the culture of your organization that are necessary for future success. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And that’s why he co-wrote Play Bigger: How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets with startup advisors Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, and Christopher Lochhead. Once you know that, you can easily align around that and position yourself as the solution to that problem. Liam: So, who are we talking about here?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you're a PM at an early stage startup, expect to work a lot. At a small startup, you will be wearing so many hats and it will often feel overwhelming how much work has to get done.". Work With a Positive Company Culture. Unwind With Exercise. Establishing a work-life balance isn’t always up to an individual.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In the world of startups, there’s a truism that 9 out of 10 companies fail. How do we build and position a product that is nearly irresistible for the people we want to serve? Over time, as the process has become a ‘framework,’ I’ve seen JTBD employed as a “problem-finding” exercise, focusing on how people use products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? Throw in some startup & technology related posts?—? Stakeholder Retrospectives In a regular cadence?—?probably

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There is no exact science to getting through the first stage without ups and downs leading to better results, but exercising empathy can help. Tools to analyze the exercise of empathy. Maintain a positive attitude that gives you confidence and security. Empathy is the giant post-it note which says “You are not your user.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

AKA “LinkedIn for startups.” every now and then you can read about a startup that just raised a big round of funding. I’ve personally got wind of a lot of under-the-radar startups this way. Company background The first place I go to research is Crunchbase , an extensive collection of past and current startups.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. Originals (By Adam Grant ) “Conviction in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. The AOM position is one of the most popular and sought after roles; many people with competitive backgrounds apply each year.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Regular people looking to do more exercise. They see regular exercise as a way to increase the years and quality of their life. (2) Instead of focusing on different types of exercise (as a gym might do), focus on the activities they do every day? Make tracking exercise that is already being done easy to do.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. That being said, it’s still a learned skill which you can begin exercising today, no matter where you are in your career. It takes time to develop, and doesn’t just appear overnight.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Plus, the whole Lean Startup thing is all the rage right now so it gives you a genuine reason to try it out and add those buzzwords to your LinkedIn profile. If you’re still not sure where to start, go get a copy of Pieter Levels’ Bootstrappers Handbook and follow the exercises at the end of each chapter.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

Revenue ) are a popular choice in the startup world. For this reason, I recommend you do this exercise in two passes. At Pona, we mark positive events in green, negative in red, and neutral in blue. Retained , but feel free to adapt the funnel to your needs. AARRR Pirate Metrics ( Acquired ? Activated ?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

In reality, you may not see a positive return from a new hire for 12 to 18 months. When you see a company pull $10 million in funding and hiring like crazy, it’s easy to want the same for your startup without understanding the stress that comes with it. That can be the case for any position. It’s as simple as that.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. Market factors: How would addressing each opportunity affect your product’s position in the marketplace? Vistaly is a startup in this space that has happy customers. These products address my desires.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

Fred Wilson shares this mentality in how he describes the role of the CEO of a startup: A CEO does only three things. It provides a compelling model for tech startups today and I wanted to share my three biggest takeaways from it. Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

This metric can be a subscription conversion rate, purchases made in a physical store from all who entered, or a positive satisfaction score after weeks of using a product. Have you unearthed any valuable insights using similar exercises in the past? If you haven’t, do you have any other ways to measure product/market fit?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 17, 2020

To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons” The EU is also drafting the new Digital Services Act , which is the first major overhaul of its approach to regulating the internet for two decades.

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