ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

I’ve spoken with so many product managers who have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur or launching their own product one day. After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. Startups fail more often than not. It makes sense.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 9, 2017

When I went to college I knew that my ultimate aspiration was to found my own tech startup and in order to prepare myself for that goal, I decided to pursue a dual-degree at the University of Pennsylvania from both the engineering and business schools. I wanted to share three such principles that I find incredibly relevant to product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

How many people should there be in your SaaS product marketing team? When should you start building a product marketing team and what role should you hire first? Let's talk about how to build and structure product marketing teams for SaaS products. SaaS product marketing team structure.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth. What a product marketing strategy involves.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

Great product managers never stop learning. That's why we scoured our bookshelves to make a list of the best product management books we could find. Fortunately, there is a cornucopia of stellar books perfect for product managers who want to learn everything from user-centric design principles to advancing their career.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 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. Combine Lean Startup validation with quick revenue? Which leads to a spin cycle of frustration and finger-pointing.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. First, it delays the product launch. But worry not!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

SaaS companies have started to realize that their products should be the main driver of growth. This product-led growth flips the old marketing and sales rulebooks on their heads. Product marketing is a large part of this shift. Product-Led Growth. What a product marketing strategy involves.

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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. Combine Lean Startup validation with quick revenue? Which leads to a spin cycle of frustration and finger-pointing.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch. From large enterprises to startups, they believe that powerful, innovative customer experiences should be within reach for every company, no matter the size, industry or ambition. Kin + Carta.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Conduct thorough market research : Analyze your target audience, competitors, and industry trends. Gather insights to validate product-market fit, identify unique selling points, and refine your go-to-market strategy. Prioritize user feedback and testing : Involve users throughout the product development process.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch. From large enterprises to startups, they believe that powerful, innovative customer experiences should be within reach for every company, no matter the size, industry or ambition. Kin + Carta.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Instead of implementing the entire product, teams started to engineer small increments and test them in the market.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Oversee product design.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Despite this generally accepted understanding, coordinating product releases of any size can still get messy. Jeffrey Vocell.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I feel like it should be a product management function (with inputs from all the relevant stakeholders). Product management may be writing business cases for new products, which should include pricing. Oh, and don’t forget finance. Where does pricing belong in startups? Product management.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. How to Build a B2B SaaS Product Development Strategy Using Data.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

I feel like it should be a product management function (with inputs from all the relevant stakeholders). Product management may be writing business cases for new products, which should include pricing. Oh, and don’t forget finance. Where does pricing belong in startups? Product management.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 15, 2020

From product manager… to a venture capitalist? Let’s state the obvious first: Historically, that has not been the typical career path for a product manager (pm). When they’re recruiting new associates or partners to join their investment team, venture-capital firms don’t look for product professionals.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry. But along the way I ended up getting a concentration in finance at Wharton because it was what Wharton was most well known for. And thus began my career in product management. And I did exactly that.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Have you heard this before as a product manager? I didn’t count roles like Product managers, scrum masters or operations staff, I just counted engineering and design roles and found that everyone I called about 25%?—?35% Don’t ask for millions of developers if you don’t even have product-market-fit yet.

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 29, 2019

Find the product management conferences you can’t afford to miss in 2019 with this complete list of every product management conference by region and date. Product management conferences and events are an excellent way to learn product management best practices and network with your fellow product managers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. What can be cut first?

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. Let’s look at each of these points in turn, and compare them with a product analytics tool like Mixpanel. Analysis depth vs. breadth.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. We tend to universalize our individual experiences ( “most users are just like me and need what I needed” ) or wave away market complexities.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 9, 2021

A key theme in Inspired is that strong product teams practices separate discovery and delivery activities. Because product discovery is such a critical part of modern product management, Cagan provides a number of techniques for each phase of discovery. ” Startup Canvas. Customer Interviews. Concierge Test.

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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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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Let’s dive into this complex conundrum, while taking a product management lens to the pricing strategy problem. Demystifying Product Management’s Role in Pricing Strategy. Before going any further, let’s tackle some misconceptions about pricing that many product managers (or aspiring PMs) may hold.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2018

The core team leader in this model is more of a mini general manager than an expert product manager or senior developer. The small, cross-functional core team structure short-circuits this approach and is designed to replicate the communication efficiencies of a small startup within a large organization. Decision Making.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

From a stakeholder’s perspective, why should they defer a critical strategy decision to a product manager who doesn’t share their same goals and objectives? This is why product management exists?—?to There is no silver bullet or magic formula that will make all strategic decisions clear for everyone.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 13, 2019

A strategic product marketing function can be created with one simple move that pays three big dividends to the organization. Many product marketing professionals in B2B have long felt like the sales tools on-demand department and rightfully so. It’s one of the least effective ways to do product marketing in B2B.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

There were a number of individuals and startup founders who were putting the necessary ideas, workflows, and tactics together. Above: For most of the missions for a growth team, you need many different functional roles to help – from Product, Marketing, Engineering, Data, Ops, Finance, etc., And all your peers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2019

I’ve seen even the smallest startups who are not as lean and agile in their approach as you would think. My e-book “Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit”? —?an Note that it will not always help though. You see, to be truly agile you too need to be willing to start walking in a path where things are not defined all the way.

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