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.". Are you encouraging cooperative communication within the team? It helps set expectations within your team and organization.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I don’t recommend these because I’ve had bad experiences with some boutique firms. 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. What is its exit strategy? AngelList ?—?AKA

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Of course, product managers say ‘no” all the time, but it’s usually to bad ideas or things requiring resources that are simply unavailable. The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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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. Let’s get to it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I When you are advising teams, how do you make sure they don’t go too far down the rabbit hole? That startup didn’t survive. Ah, the perennial question.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

If you're applying as a Google product manager , this means you'll need product management experience with leading user research, implementing features, and working with software teams to build deliverables. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But what I later realized is that this field was just an avenue that allowed me to exercise a greater underlying passion: I wanted to build things. And since then, I’ve held product roles at a number of startups and publicly traded companies. ” Did it take any bad experiences in product management to learn this?

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. Growth is an emerging field, and there’s hardly a playbook on how to ace your growth interview (whichever side of the table you’re on), and yet hiring and team could be the most important “growth hack” of all. They pulled together a great essay below!].

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 18, 2010

Working alongside Gus Tai , Ajay Chopra , Jim Tybur , Dan Scholnick , and the rest of the Trinity team provided an inside look into the world of venture capital. Given that I've spent most of my entrepreneurial career in scrappy startup environments, I developed a valuable new perspective on evaluating opportunities.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 21, 2019

From page 1 of Obviously Awesome: How To Nail Product Positioning So Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It , it was clear that the team at Business of Software needed to read April Dunford’s new book. If it looks irrelevant, boring, or a poor imitation of a competitor, you’ll leave people saying ‘So?’ ” Ouch.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world. It is obvious to say that a small daring startup will not be expecting your application to resemble that of an IBM. They are in fact responsible for developing, designing and marketing a product.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. Some developers want to work for the next “big thing” and you won’t be able to hire them but you will be able to hire people who’ve done it. I’m working on exploring answering with “I don’t know” and exercising that.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. Some developers want to work for the next “big thing” and you won’t be able to hire them but you will be able to hire people who’ve done it. I’m working on exploring answering with “I don’t know” and exercising that.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Speed is everything.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs. Instead, run beta tests to be sure.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

Overseeing a team of 11 product managers, Ben is a step removed from managing the actual product at Venmo. And how does a product team lead handle hard decisions? It’s a conversation that’s beneficial not only to product team leads, but also any PMs looking to understand their leads more. Is that true?

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

After thousands of conversations with product teams evaluating Mixpanel, we sifted through the data to identify the questions that we see come up again and again. Here’s a summary of exactly what teams and objectives are best served by each: Marketing analytics (e.g. Product analytics (e.g. Source: Semetis.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles. In Italy when northern Italy was testing aggressively, the directive from Rome was to chill a little because their numbers were looking unnecessarily bad.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. The second is employees.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

They not only teach the customer how to use their various sales and marketing products, but they help customers improve the execution of their sales and marketing strategies, e.g., how to write better copy, run better experiments, or create more effective blog posts. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 17, 2024

She practices thought leadership and leverages her diverse expertise to mentor designers, guide leaders, and provide strategic counsel to startups. Last but not least, this year I gave myself a gift for my birthday it’s called a book about yourself and it’s a very deep self-reflection exercise. Karthik: Yeah.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

After a few years of feeling meh about copywriting, he got invited to do “product-y stuff” for a new startup. I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Because the other part is standing up and talking to the team.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 31, 2020

You can spend as much as you want on developing a product, but no one cares how much you spend – they only care about it’s value. In this talk Rich gives you the key points to remember throughout your journey from startup to success. Rich Mironov, Smokejumper Product Executive. Pricing is the long game.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

He even invented the design sprint at Google, helping teams discover how to be purposeful and effective. Here are 5 quick takeaways: Design sprints are powerful because they make teams focus on one thing every day. Teams should reconsider how they manage emails and meetings. So, on Monday, the team makes a map.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

There was only one team member brave enough to take him on. He wasn’t doing a bad job at all, Kirk Baillie. And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. So can I start with the most memorable in a bad way?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

To make a Roadmap useful, you need an allocation model and a selling strategy that helps you: understand; manage the expectations of; deliver value to people across the organization who prioritize very different things. Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. So of course we need management here. No coincidence.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. And it became quickly overwhelming for us to have so many products with a small team. Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey. Mark Littlewood Fantastic. That’s the real work.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s an altogether different kind of product development. If toys are fun to play with it suggests an interesting strategy for making good games. I highly recommend that you do this exercise, list out your own skills and then for each. Status relatively easy to do in team based products. They tell their friends.

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