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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower - Product Management

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Conclusion Startup metrics are an invaluable tool for founders and innovators. Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics. What does the business do? How does it meet customers’ needs?

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Can Lean Product Management Help Startups Build Strong Products?

The Product Coalition

In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). In this article, we will look at what Lean product management is, how it can help you and how it can help your startup build great products that your customers love. In the startup context.

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A Solo Designer’s Journey in a Fast-Growing Startup

UX Planet

From design-team-of-thirty to design-team-of-one Over the past two years, I have been a design-team-of-one at a fast-growing startup, and the experience has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. In a startup environment, where resources are often limited, collaboration becomes not just a preference but a necessity.

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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. Founding a startup is a lot like this. I didn’t have a perfectly mapped out startup marketing strategy. When you start with an addressable and responsive audience, you get a pretty immediate feedback loop.

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

I still believe these remain the very best resources on the topic. I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. And finally, I include a set of resources for managing a career in product management.

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Learn and Measure Before You Build: Using JTBD to Improve The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop

The Product Coalition

The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a core tenet of the lean startup methodology, popularized by Eric Ries. The main argument is spending too much time behind closed doors, chasing down a perfect product, increases the cost of failure. So, you build, measure, learn, and then repeat.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. Iterate the product based on feedback. What words do they use?