The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. A bad plan is better than no plan." Origin of Lean Thinking. Plans Matter.

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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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just playing part-time CPO and also part-time product manager) is a poor substitute for hiring the brilliant people we need.  Poor Dark blue: recruiting , candidate interviews, talent pipeline.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

“The average app loses 77 percent of its DAUs (Daily Average Users) within the first three days after the install” according to research conducted in late 2018 by Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen and mobile intelligence startup Quettra. Develop real personas that reflect your customers. Know Thy Customer—and Thy Enemy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The term “growth hacking” was coined by Sean Ellis in 2010 after he used this strategy to ignite unstoppable growth for Dropbox, LogMeIn, and other successful startups. The marketing team is responsible for awareness and acquisition, the sales team — for revenues, and the product team — for retention.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. both in the short and long term. Here are the things that you must keep in mind before?—?and and during?—?the

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

He says: It’s hard to separate two signals: “this person is giving me bad juju” and “my cognitive biases are causing me to think that this person is off” because the psychological mechanism behind this is the same [from his perspective]. When we meet people who give us bad vibes, it’s often hard to explain what about them trips us off.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. To be successful, the product needs to be more effective than others at satisfying the unique needs of a unique group of customers. The sales team could be a good source of information.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. The superpower became a weakness. The truth is quite different.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Consumer touchpoints help to evaluate the degree of customer satisfaction and timely spot friction points (product bugs, lousy customer experience, poor UX, etc.). Why are customer touchpoints important?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. And what it’s not.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A bad first impression could ultimately hurt your chances of landing a dream job. People see selling as a bad word but it ultimately makes life easier if you know how to do it. I have grouped the examples into three types of design portfolio introductions based on length. Joining Uber Feb 19.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2016

One aspect of startups that the ecosystem is getting better at is designing our startups for learning from our customers to find product/market fit. But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be. What exactly do I mean by this?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. According to the NN group, UX maturity measures an organization’s desire and ability to successfully deliver user-centered design.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

The most important take-aways were the importance of consistent one-on-ones and realisation that team diversity can sometimes oppose the team culture and this is not a bad thing. Of course we had internal discussion about this situation in my team. Company culture vs team diversity. Mentorship experience.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success. This is because these negative qualities not only affect the success of a project but also adversely impact the work of other team members and departments. saying no is critical for ensuring productivity.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. In the midst of those challenges, I got an offer to move to Sydney with my wife and join Like Family, a 12 people startup trying to solve social isolation in Australia. And it makes sense.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

If you’re an early-stage startup on a very tight budget (under $100 per month) the options for you include: Intercom, Userguiding and Product Fruits. Userguiding and Product Fruits offer more features, but have very clonky and buggy UX and UI, which makes them feel ‘half-baked’ and offers a poor user experience. ease of use.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. At startups or growth stage companies, a “Product Manager” is responsible for identifying what needs to be built and then executing on building the product. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. The main purpose of the workshop with a select group of stakeholders is to decide, based on evidence, if a product or feature can be removed or “cut”. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Add a picture of your team member to humanize it! After the survey, you can create customer segments based on scores and implement personalized retention strategies for each group.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

And I’d like to think that product people are among the more open professionals out there: we can be honest about our struggles, face up to our fears, and seek wisdom for our weaknesses. Therefore it’s how we handle it which matters – and we do well to remember that not all conflict is bad. So what are these fears?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. 15 years ago we founded a product development studio, Mint Digital, and we’ve launched at least 100 MVPs since then. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. This concept split the team. Looking back, this was a bad MVP.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Troubleshooting a poor product launch.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. For her, this is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Liam: For sure. It was just a way to impress people.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Under strict observation of the Chatham House rule , the group picked out a host of themes for discussion, and I’ve chosen the four topics which seemed to resonate universally, along with a selection of the considerations mentioned and the approaches people are taking to tackle them. CEO vs Product Management.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Plotting their strengths and weaknesses (and your opportunities and threats).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

My company Doximity has a bunch of great teams, many of which are hiring ( link ). Hiring teams want to make sure their culture brand is strong. I’m interested in team brands within a company. As companies grow, different areas of an organization start to develop reputations. Brand’ is a pretty hot buzzword.

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