The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I admit that in the past, I have been soured on “strategy” as a discipline.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

As an engineering leader, startup co-founder, and former PM heading up supply growth at Airbnb, I’ve learned a lot about successful goal-setting. Below, I’m sharing a framework that I’ve leveraged to set goals and effectively institute them across an organization. And strategy is just a plan to achieve your company’s mission.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

That is what I´m calling “magical framework”. So, in this post I want to do the opposite: I won´t give you one more “magical framework”. Further reference here: [link] 3. Further reference: [link] 5. Try to apply techniques as painkillers for problems rather than trying to follow a step by step “magical framework”.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Growth loops are a compounding growth strategy where the user fuels future growth by reinvesting their outputs into new inputs for the next growth cycle. The Pirate Metrics Framework organizes the traditional funnel into five stages in the customer journey: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue ( AARRR ).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A “blue ocean” refers to an untapped market space or industry that is not yet crowded with competitors. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne in their influential book “Blue Ocean Strategy,” this concept had always been an aspiration for me as a product person. Coined by professors W. Why is a blue ocean such a colossal challenge?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Strategies – so you know which steps you should take on the way to higher, faster, and more sustainable growth. If you want your SaaS to grow sustainably, you should implement at least one of these strategies: adopting a product-led growth model, creating valuable and actionable content, in-app onboarding , exceptional customer care.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

Then these strategies are a must know for every product professional. Product Feedback Loop – Strategies. There are many strategies that a product team can use to get real and useful feedback on their products. The following strategies are all equally important. Are you looking to break into product management ?

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Product managers often refer to their product vision as “my north star.” Product Vision vs. Company Vision When you’re a startup or small company with one or just a few products, your company vision and product vision are often one and the same. In the simplest terms, a product vision defines the long-term mission of your product.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The founder of spreadsheet startup Equals says the answer for his product is a firm no. Space OS, from Berlin-based startup Deta, thinks there’s a better way to run your desktop’s operating system. Knowledge Series #9: How to segment customers – practical tools and frameworks explored. Refer a friend ?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. The book is evidence-based (references to theories in footnotes) and contains exercises you can start using right away. Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding. 6-step strategy for retaining more customers.

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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. This book is the perfect, handy step-by-step guide to help startups and large companies alike optimize Lean techniques. It provides a thorough treatment of building, planning, and scaling startups.

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Brian Balfour

JUNE 28, 2017

This post is an introduction to a five part series where I explain for frameworks you need to align to grow to a $100M+ company. I refer to these companies as Smooth Sailers - a little effort for lots of speed. I refer to these companies as Tugboats - a lot of effort for little speed. Subscribe to receive the rest of the series.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. I even facilitated a few design sprints and started sprinkling in concepts from these frameworks in meetings with stakeholders. What’s our 2020 strategy?” I think we need a new framework!”

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Taken from Teresa Torres’ blog, ProductTalk.org The Opportunity Solution Tree is a framework that breaks Product outcomes into opportunity streams so that stakeholders have a better understanding of what you are proposing and can better help you prioritize. Reader discretion is advised. What’s an Opportunity Solution Tree?

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Due to the recent global restrictions, we have developed a framework for effective remote collaboration, enabling us to work with clients from various time zones. Our clients are growing startups and established brands like HBO, Google, Netflix, or Wizz air. Is there anything we can help you with at this moment? Wandr Studio.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

However, I can certainly think of product or marketing professionals who use the term value when referring to cheap widgety dashboards and features aimed at novelty seekers, or following an industry trend with no real vision. To answer this question, we’ll use the “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) framework.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Select the features that are consistent with the product strategy and solve the problems of the majority of your users. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In this article, we’ll be discussing top strategies to optimize your user funnel, as well as 3 tools to help you do a funnel analysis to boost retention. The Pirate Metrics Framework is a method of categorizing and grouping together metrics depending on the stage of the user funnel. But how is it done properly? Let’s get started.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When I started working at a larger company, I remember the first time someone said I should write a strategy document for this new project I had started talking about. I thought: “A strategy document? But really, I just had never written a formal strategy document before. What was that? Did this mean I was a bad PM?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

If you ever worked in a B2B startup, you know that you are chasing opportunities. I like to describe it using Dave McLure’s AARRR framework: you are pouring leads into the pipe on the left, and you get happy customers on the other side of the pipe on the right. In most cases, there is so much that you need to do to make it happen.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

These include: Knowing how to carve and clearly communicate a product strategy, and apply strategic thinking when making decisions. Marty Cagan refers to them as “Experience Product Managers” in his book Inspired , as they primarily focus on human-centered, customer-focused products. Growth Product Manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s one of those facts of startup life that is easy to overlook, but the success and growth of companies can be deeply intertwined with the technology they use in their stack, and I’d like to explain how that has been the case with Intercom and Ember. This is the “ship every day” for a framework.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

It should follow the lean startup methodology, even if some small things need to be adapted to corporate culture. This process is usually referred to as Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop, a concept taken out of lean startup methodology. Good constraints and frameworks usually make people more productive than vague goals.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

This includes the BHAG (the big hairy ambitious goals), your value proposition, the product mission as well as its strategy to expand into new markets, innovate or create efficiencies — doing more with less. A pivot shouldn’t impact the company BHAG or product mission, but will directly affect strategies and tactics.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Take advantage of goal-setting frameworks to have a more holistic picture of your actual goals. Integrations refer to the free exchange of information between applications inside a system. Uncover what actions users take, how marketing strategies bring conversions, or where users interact most with your product.

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2021

Product growth is a go-to-market strategy that uses the product to drive user acquisition, activation , conversion, and retention. Product growth (or product-led growth) is a go-to-market strategy that uses the product itself to drive user acquisition, activation, conversion, and retention. Create an account expansion strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

This framework was developed by Dave Mcclure and here is what it stands for: AARRR: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, Referral Each of these 5 stages warrants different sort of metrics to be focused upon. Users who referred other users 2. customers who did more than one purchase 2. Number of sign-ins/month Revenue: 1.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Similarly, your vision and strategy help with this too. Take the example of the principle ‘ship to learn’.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

As folks who constantly deal with data, finding the right resources to refer in times of need is a challenge. To solve this, we created an internal doc with the best five of every kind of resource that data folks generally refer to. It’s one of the ace strategies to market your brand. Check out the latest issue. #4 Read it here.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

As an architectural framework, microservices are distributed and loosely coupled, so one team’s changes won’t break the entire app. Scope of Team Responsibility On the early phase of startup, usually one team would be in charge on end-to-end process. Thus, makes the strategy and development roadmap different from each other.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2021

Of course, the amount of choices you have depends on the boundaries of your imagination, but let’s break them down into three big categories: working for a big company, working for a startup, and going freelance. Working for a startup. For this purpose, I will borrow the famous AARRR Pirate Metric framework.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Foundational questions.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 5, 2024

I recommend taking any career competencies framework as the starting point. Even though the following image is about how to define a great strategy, variations of the questions can be called upon in almost any “try this out” scenario. Other views into careers of the future refer to a “portfolio” approach.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. ⤵️ What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies? Types of SaaS Growth 5 steps to scale SaaS Growth, regardless of your competitive strategy 1. What are the levers of SaaS Growth Strategies?

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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.

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