The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The stakes are exceptionally high for startups, where a misfit in the product team can have significant repercussions. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. This discrepancy necessitates a rigorous interview process to identify candidates who embody the essence of product management.

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The Review by First Round

APRIL 14, 2022

We then get into the pros and cons of negotiating offers, as well as creative approaches you can bring to other aspects of comp outside of salary, such as the exercise window. Kaitlyn also shares tons of tips around how to communicate the value of equity, especially with candidates who’ve never worked at a startup before.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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280 Group

MARCH 2, 2021

One benefit of this exercise is that you can clearly see how decision-making is transferred and clarification of who gets to decide – and who doesn’t have that decision-making authority. Prior to Amazon, Ken drove product strategy at a number of Seattle area startups.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” Here’s a blog post snippet from an engineering candidate who went through the Automattic work trial : Auth0 used to do an in-depth take-home exercise, as Matias Woloski (co-founder and CTO) shared: “ The project was typically from a real-world situation we faced and solved in the past.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Warm-up exercise (3-5 min). What are product design workshops? Where will the workshop be held? Goal of workshop.

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Oren Steinberg

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Why do we go to startup competitions? “ One of the fastest growing paths for raising funds and awareness to your startup is competitions. The number of startup competitions seems to have grown tremendously over the past few years. I myself participated in dozens of startup competitions over the past couple of years.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2024

( 06:23 ) The essential components of a good strategy (the “kernel”) ( 15:04 ) An example of good strategy ( 16:55 ) Bad strategy ( 25:17 ) The importance of focus and power ( 28:19 ) Identifying and utilizing power ( 34:38 ) Types of power ( 41:13 ) Implementing power ( 48:15 ) The importance of historical knowledge ( 55:23 ) How to write (..)

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 24, 2018

Focusing on what matters most and why is a critical key to success for any business/product and this intense focus is ever more important in a startup with limited resources and where time to market is a matter of life and death for the company. I think you get the point of this exercise.

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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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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 3, 2024

You’ve seen a lot of startup pitch decks, but this is an interesting example of one for a fund. Many startups were formed specifically to cater to their needs. Lessons from launching SPEEDRUN, the Games x Tech startup accelerator. What to do when product growth stalls. Creator Economy 2.0:

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Let’s consider another example: HealthTech — Virtual Exercise App Business Description: An app providing a range of virtual exercise classes, personal training sessions, and health tracking features. Core Value/Mission: To facilitate fitness and wellness in a convenient, accessible format. North Star Metric: Daily Active Users.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s a common element of a team startup or launch, and strong teams often revisit their team norms. c) Think like your user : An empathy exercise can help the whole team clarify their customers’ and users’ pain points. Even a short empathy exercise can help align the team on the user’s pain points and needs.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Experience Mapping is a strategic exercise of identifying, capturing, and communicating the interactions of multiple brand touchpoints over space and time. It is a strategic exercise for getting omnichannel alignment. Types of Experience Maps. The type of experience map chosen will depend on the goal.

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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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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. The same repeats for market B, C and D and before long the product team is inundated with requests that keep changing day in and day out.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ideation exercises and prioritization techniques are helpful during this phase. Roger has worked in the field of Product Management for over 20 years, with experience in startups, growth companies, and various technology sectors. During the Conceive phase, a company generates a new idea and determines whether it’s viable.

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Bruno Bergher's Writing

JUNE 27, 2015

While a logo might be the most recognizable manifestation of a brand, it’s only one of many. Brands cut across media, and present themselves in colors, shapes, words , sounds , and even smells. That’s because a brand, at it’s core, is immaterial.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Amplitude was easily the least hyped startup in the “growth stack” that took birth ~2010. For seed stage founders and aspiring early startup pros: here’s 7⃣ things I’ve learnt truly mattered: 1⃣ Competition and urgency are your best friends. Access to early exercise for tax benefits.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Bevy’s product was unintentionally incubated through a sister organization, Startup Grind. Startup Grind is a global community that helps to inform, support, and bring together entrepreneurs through local chapters and events. Startup Grind created a product to facilitate and manage the Startup Grind community.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2019

Last year I started my product management career full time, with a startup called Split Software. Seeing a problem from a different perspective is an incredibly worthwhile exercise for a product manager. Working as a product manager in a fast-moving startup can feel overwhelming. Using the Hours in the day Effectively.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Dear startup founders & product builders, The whole idea of “product-market fit,” i.e. that there’s some magical, universal, knowable tipping point for when you should stop improving your product and start marketing it, is dumb. ” Thus, “product-market fit” was born. .” How might we do that?

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In my previous jobs with early stage startups, ESOPs were always a significant portion of my total compensation. I had read so many stories of startup employees striking it rich when startups went IPO or got acquired for millions of dollars, that I never bothered to understand the intricacies of valuations, ESOPs etc.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In my previous jobs with early stage startups, ESOPs were always a significant portion of my total compensation. I had read so many stories of startup employees striking it rich when startups went IPO or got acquired for millions of dollars, that I never bothered to understand the intricacies of valuations, ESOPs etc.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. These broad information-gathering exercises are typically an inefficient, cumbersome, and unnecessary step. Your decision-making process is slowing you down. . They consciously try to exclude their own expertise, intuition, and objectives from the process.

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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. Hello, all you product-loving folks! ☕ The Next Step You have landed your dream job. You are managing products well and pushing out successful products, and your customers are happy, too.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Jake and John are co-founders of the venture capital firm Character, where they support startups with capital and sprints. Take intentional steps to maintain your well-being, including sufficient sleep, proper nutrition, exercise, and social interaction. Energize: Choose a time when your energy levels are high.

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280 Group

JULY 17, 2020

You can do a market sizing exercise to estimate the business potential. She currently works at Osaro, a San Francisco based startup that builds machine learning software for robotic vision and control and Amazon’s Alexa group. Then, the next question is: how do we know if ML can help address our user problems?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Once the Product Owner has refreshed the team’s understanding of what the product vision is, we move on to the product box exercise.

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280 Group

JULY 17, 2020

You can do a market sizing exercise to estimate the business potential. She currently works at Osaro, a San Francisco based startup that builds machine learning software for robotic vision and control and Amazon’s Alexa group. Then, the next question is: how do we know if ML can help address our user problems?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Scheduling is an exercise in masochism Because the act of scheduling is painstaking. About the author I’m a UX Designer turned Product Manager, with experience in startups, freelance, and agile B2B2C companies. But we were able to move forward because of these meetings. Why will no one else do it? Connect with me on Twitter.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2023

His books have sold over 1 million copies in more than 30 languages; he has taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and its Design School; and he has started and sold two startups since 2003. Turn your values into time by putting things in your calendar like prayer, meditation, and exercise.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. It’s inspired by thinking and practices from Steve Blank, Lean Startup, Teresa Torres, Marty Cagan and the Double Diamond. Why do a Product Discovery?

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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.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. Some of the startups absolutely must have these results soon enough in order to be able to raise the next round.

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