Product Management University

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ongoing market consolidation across large, medium, and small companies has resulted in larger and more complex product portfolios. The convergence of software, hardware and services has forced traditional companies to find creative ways to differentiate what’s now a commodity. Out with Product Marketing 1.0

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? This means complicated UI , redundant features, and unnecessary use of complex technologies.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. And many executives have never seen good product management.

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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

JUNE 11, 2021

This is where analytics software comes in. Analytics tools help SaaS businesses generate actionable insights from the data they collect, which then fuels their decisions. We’ll also tell you which data points and metrics you should pay particular attention to and how to track them using the SaaS analytics software listed here!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads.

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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. Why is that export important if we have other ways of pulling data from the system? Will we be exhibiting there?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

Drupal templates from Zero Gravity ), or a no/low code Dx-as-a-service tool (e.g. product marketing matches their API Developer Portal with flawless consistency Codat.io Product Marketing to Match the Codat.io Product Marketing to Match the Codat.io www.Astral.sh ). Example: Codat.io

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? We look at the process of idea validation and a range of tools and techniques you can leverage to aid the process. Are there enough users who are ready to pay for a solution to the problem?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Sophia Benhaddou – Managing Partner and Product Manager at Excelway – – online meeting facilitation tool suite. Olga Springer – Product Manager / Product Owner at SentiOne – a social media listening and internet monitoring tool. Women in SaaS. Women in SaaS. What is your background?

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Mixpanel

MARCH 22, 2024

The banking and finance industries have seen a lot of disruption in the last 15 years that’s brought financial services even closer to consumers. Moreover, 25% of financial technology customers now want a fully digital banking experience fueled by remote human assistance available when they need it.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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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. Enough solution details to answer reasonable follow-on questions. Have they gone to their manager to demand a solution?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  (See the chocolate cake problem.)

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2020

With very fewer peer interactions, these humble entrepreneurs are able to master the must-haves of their businesses like social media management, website development, and finance with powerful tools and resources. As the founder and manager of a personal brand myself, I can’t emphasize the need for these tools enough.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Maybe everyone on your team is working hard to ship good, high quality software only to be faced with comments from different parts of the business about why things take forever to build. For the longest time, I pondered what was a good way to articulate speed in a software company. the real world. So if you want to go faster?—?

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like. And other platforms can’t really provide this, so I’ve made it the core thesis of AfterHour. Is that where the user appetite is?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Director of Product Job Responsibilities At the Director level, your job is more about ensuring that the product follows industry standards, utilizes state-of-the-art technology, and follows the company vision. The Director of Product job responsibilities is a mix of these three primary functions.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This allows teams like product, marketing, engineering, design, and others to all effortlessly visualize their users’ behavior and analyze results from releases, campaigns, and other initiatives. And that means more teams throughout the org can use Mixpanel to make better decisions about building their next solutions.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

†† Here’s a scenario: You’re a product manager at an Enterprise software company and get a blizzard of incoming requests and demands and tickets and suggestions and ideas.    I’ve heard several customers complain about slow reports.”   Let’s focus there.”

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Many software and internet companies with great product ideas and rocket high initial growth rates have failed to achieve product/market fit. The key reason behind lies not in quality management or financing, but in the incompetence to understand and meet the wants and needs of the market.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.  ” “Aria is the SQL ace on the Reporting team, but could get promoted elsewhere.    Unpacking those: Sales’ motivation to sell new products. 

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft.

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Gainsight

APRIL 27, 2022

Gainsight’s SVP of Revenue Operations, Caitlin Quinlan, had another idea to create a common platform for all. VP of Customer Success Business Solutions, Shelby Czarnota, adds that if you can start using whiteboard tools like Miro or Mural to collaborate better, too. Include Those Who Can’t Be There. Make it Actionable.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2022

Product management is a cross-functional role responsible for all stages of product development. Reports, statistics, and product benchmarks give you hard data on trends in the product world. Reports, statistics, and product benchmarks give you hard data on trends in the product world.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I remember being ecstatic when I learned that programming computers was a profession and I knew what my calling was: I wanted to develop software that improved people's lives. I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry.

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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. Why are blogs one of the best ways to learn SaaS marketing?

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

For example, Netflix’s product vision is “becoming the best global entertainment distribution service.”. Mission: stellar service, valuable partner, sustained profitable growth, huge impact. Or, like Dave —the personal finance app discussed above—product analytics can help you steer a strategic product launch.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

Our surveys at ProductPlan support this trend of product managers (PM) desiring the entrepreneurial life. In ProductPlan’s 2021 State of Product Management Report , we learned that 27% of product managers said they wanted to start their own company in the next 10 years.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

Our surveys at ProductPlan support this trend of product managers (PM) desiring the entrepreneurial life. In ProductPlan’s 2021 State of Product Management Report , we learned that 27% of product managers said they wanted to start their own company in the next 10 years.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With a need to deliver products that bring value to both customers and the business and the new spotlight on product-led growth. But compared to established departments like sales, engineering, or finance, product management is a relatively new discipline. Sharpen your finance skills. Customer advocate.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Today’s rising borrowing costs and dipping public markets are putting a squeeze on startup fundraising. In October 2022, Crunchbase reported that funding rounds for private companies have dropped 53% year-over-year. ” Zach Berger, Technology Investor at Bain Capital. ” Janelle Teng, VP at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. What do Other Non-Product People Think? And I couldn’t agree more.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I even know some highly effective organisations with hundreds of thousands of users who just have product designers instead of product managers in most of their squads and are seeing positive results. The issue feels a little more systemic. Using these ideological tools for your own sanity is great.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It experimented with a ton of different organizational configurations – I joined a few years after it was created and spent about 3 years there, and spent most of my time on driving growth on the rider side of the platform. In the same way, we can build growth teams as a system too. Product teams focus on creating core value.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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