Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category. . The math of startups and venture capital. Of all the topics of the book, one of my favorites has to be the math of startups and venture capital, because it gives us a perspective on the life and death of startups as a whole. The J-Curve.

Startups 109

Startups Reference Books Finance 109

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.

Feedback Software 162

Feedback Software Marketing User Testing Finance 162

ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. As I continued to help launch products, I realized that I was prepared to dive into entrepreneurial life myself. I believe that product management is a great training ground for entrepreneurship.

Product Management 104

Product Management Product Manager Product Research Customer Experience 104

ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. As I continued to help launch products, I realized that I was prepared to dive into entrepreneurial life myself. I believe that product management is a great training ground for entrepreneurship.

Product Management 98

Product Management Product Manager Product Research Customer Experience 98

Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

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. Amplitude helps you use customer data to build great product experiences that convert and retain users.

Feedback Software 147

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Reporting Tools Data Visualization 147

Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity.

Research Software 98

Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools Onboarding KPIs 98

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Here’s a few examples of career paths that start in a related role and work their way to product. Eventually, he takes up product work on the side, and makes the switch full time. Work at a startup. Working at a startup will often allow you to touch just about everything that is going on. So, we got to talking.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Product Management Product Manager Research Software 164

Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Product management may be writing business cases for new products, which should include pricing. Product marketing should be watching what’s happening in the marketplace to have their pulse on competitive offerings. Oh, and don’t forget finance. Where does pricing belong in startups? Product marketing.

Finance 70

Finance Startups Product Marketing Product Management 70

Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category. . The math of startups and venture capital. Of all the topics of the book, one of my favorites has to be the math of startups and venture capital, because it gives us a perspective on the life and death of startups as a whole. The J-Curve.

Startups 40

Startups Reference Books Finance 40

Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Product management may be writing business cases for new products, which should include pricing. Product marketing should be watching what’s happening in the marketplace to have their pulse on competitive offerings. Oh, and don’t forget finance. Where does pricing belong in startups?

Finance 70

Finance Startups Product Marketing Product Management 70

Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Realities of an Early-Stage Company Customer Success is rarely formed in the earliest days of a new company; usually Product, Marketing, Sales, and Finance all come first. Startups are stressful and chaotic. Here are the highlights. Customer relationships. Company morale.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Customer Feedback Feedback Software User Testing 52

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.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software Data Visualization 52

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Author: Dan Olsen When the Lean Startup movement began, it took the product management world by storm. Everyone decided they wanted to implement Lean product principles. This book is the perfect, handy step-by-step guide to help startups and large companies alike optimize Lean techniques.

Books 95

Books User Testing Technical Review Product Management 95

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. I wanted my scope to be larger across an entire product. And I did exactly that.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Software Review Research Software Reporting Tools 109

Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Experience in e-commerce, subscription, marketplace, and retention-focused products. She's an expert in Product Management, User Interviews & Testing, Prototyping, Data Analytics, Product Marketing, Ecommerce, Self Service, Advertising, Sales, Event Management, Market Research, and Account Management.

Technical Advisors 115

Technical Advisors Product Research Analytic Tools User Testing 115

Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Despite their hefty news coverage, it’s not just startups that are landing major funding in the U.S. More common numbers are represented in the median early stage financing numbers (Series A and B) at around $8 million. At this stage, it is nice to bring on more product support. Improve Product Marketing.

Customer Communications 52

Customer Communications Customer Experience Healthcare Finance 52

Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Failure to reach product-market fit Overengineering often delays the moment companies reach product-market fit. First, it delays the product launch. This means a lot of product development happens without customer validation. Finding the product-market fit.

Feedback Software 101

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software User Testing 101

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. On the other hand, product analytics is critical throughout a company’s lifecycle.

Data Visualization 111

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Differentiation User Testing 111

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

By building a strong business tech stack for your startup – covering everything from incorporation to growing long-lasting customer relationships – you can not only win back time and establish best practices, but create a solid foundation for your business to grow. Ready to take your startup to the next level?

Reporting Tools 163

Reporting Tools Customer Communications Analytic Tools Data Visualization 163

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.

User Testing 97

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience CTO Coach 97

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.

Roadmap 165

Roadmap Feedback Software User Testing Reporting Tools 165

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.

Roadmap 165

Roadmap Feedback Software User Testing Reporting Tools 165

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.

Research Software 98

Research Software Feedback Software Product Marketing Marketing 98

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

To set the context for the discussion, we referred to a framework , created by David Skok of Matrix Partners, to describe the life of a startup, with three stages: Stage 1: The Search for Product-Market Fit. In case you missed it, here were the takeaways. Stage 2: The Search for a Repeatable Growth Model.

Feedback Software 40

Feedback Software User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback 40

Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2018

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. Innovation and new product development requires teams to make hundreds of decisions each week. Decision Making. Timely decision-making is critical.

User Testing 141

User Testing Research Software Product Research Government 141

ProductPlan

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Even when product management technically “owns” pricing, product managers are not doing it in a vacuum. In particular, marketing, sales, and finance. These other departments will provide many insights: What the market will bear. What kind of margins and revenues the company expects for the product.

Strategy 61

Strategy Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback 61

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.

Product Marketing 127

Product Marketing Marketing B2B Healthcare 127

Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Developing great product people Developing the team Displaying PDF files and Medieval History Doing the right thing Doom3 DXP Ecosystem Building Education Entering new markets Enterprise Data Enterprise Software (Higher Ed) F1 Forging stronger teams in a remote work place. What is next?

Research Software 10

Research Software Feedback Software User Testing Data Visualization 10

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.

Agile 60

Agile User Testing Customer Experience Customer Feedback 60

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.

User Testing 130

User Testing Onboarding KPIs Product Research Startups 130

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.

User Testing 78

User Testing Enterprise Weak Development Team Product Research 78

The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2018

In the early stages of growth, losing customers might indicate that you do not have a product-market fit. Or if your customers feel the need to speak with you to understand how they can start using your product, you haven’t built an intuitive onboarding experience within the product.

Reporting Tools 60

Reporting Tools Onboarding KPIs User Testing Customer Experience 60

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

If you can get access to the financial data from your finance team, display it as a % of overall budget (ie. Don’t ask for millions of developers if you don’t even have product-market-fit yet. And for risk of stating the obvious, nobody wants to invest in a product you are sunsetting in a year?—?so we spend 2.4m

Reporting Tools 120

Reporting Tools Product Management Product Manager Customer Experience 120

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.

User Testing 69

User Testing Enterprise Weak Development Team Product Research 69

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.

User Testing 154

User Testing Development Customer Experience Product Research 154

The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2018

How a financial services startup acquired 4MM+ users in 3 years. Product / Market Fit “Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.”?—?Marc Marc Andreessen Good Market ? You’re responsible adults. Yes, I had a small bladder.

Reporting Tools 60

Reporting Tools User Testing Customer Experience Definition 60

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2017

Along the way, we hope to discover that our product/market segments are made up of hundreds/thousands of customers who want the same thing. Or Teresa Torres’ Introduction to Product Discovery. Address sales objections to product-led conversations and “who owns the relationship.”

User Testing 32

User Testing Product Research Reporting Tools Data Visualization 32