Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 18, 2024

They possess an unwavering conviction in their startup’s potential, even in the face of daunting obstacles. Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges. Refusing to accept failure, they persuade others of their inevitable success.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

touches on what startups should and shouldn’t do when striving for product-market fit. Perhaps that’s why Enzo Avigo, CEO of June , reportedly recommends several “dos” and “don’ts” on LinkedIn on how startups can navigate their journey towards product-market fit. But these methods don’t work well for startups.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

During our careers, we noticed specific issues that re-occur between CEOs and their CPO/VP product in early-stage startups. Early-stage startups are characterized by their fast-paced and dynamic nature, with teams working tirelessly to bring their products to market, validate their assumptions, and gain customer traction.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re an established company with a new product or a brand-new startup, knowing where you fit in the market is vital. Competitive positioning is a way to assess the market, suss out your competition, and work out whether your offering is a viable means of making money. Define your competitive positioning approach.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. So how do you ensure that your product not only lives but actually thrives? TL;DR Product positioning is about defining your product’s place in the market to attract customers and enhance brand identity. What is product positioning?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

April Dunford’s mtpcon Digital 2020 keynote on positioning was so good that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to dig deeper into the topic with her. The post Obviously Awesome: Positioning Your Product – April Dunford on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Building a story brand.

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NextBigWhat

MAY 2, 2021

THREAD: My 20s were full of ups and downs I lost millions, made millions and helped build some billion dollar startups My biggest lessons learned: The future of startups: – Privacy-first – Community-first – Sustainability-first – Creator-first – Decentralized-first – Digital-first. Help people.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Even thinking about implementing a multi-cloud architecture is prematurely optimizing for practically all businesses – especially startups – and not a trap you want to fall into. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes. Instead, look to peer relationships with engineers at similarly sized startups.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 24, 2024

He is the CEO and founder of CRED, an Indian-based fintech startup valued at over $6 billion. Prior to CRED, he founded three other startups, including Freecharge, which he sold for over $400 million to Snapdeal. Embracing this cycle helps founders understand how to operate, given the stage they are at.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, it can take more time than that when you are still learning how to use them. As we collect stories and hear about these unmet needs, pain points, and desires, we start to collect opportunities where we can positively intervene. This is how we create customer value. There’s no right answer to this question.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

In this BoS Talk April shows you how important positioning is to your product and how you can be doing yourself a great injustice just by positioning incorrectly. Positioning. This is a talk about positioning one of the most misunderstood concepts in marketing, in startups, in business. Transcript.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2021

It also meant relearning how to establish trust and credibility with clients and rethinking daily tasks to suit the limitations and opportunities of working remotely. Founder of a London and Budapest-based behavioural consulting startup. Such a positive outlook didn’t happen overnight. Not only that. Luckily, I was wrong.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you work at an early-stage startup and you don’t have any customers yet, then you need to talk to prospects. Learn more about how continuous discovery works in early-stage startups here. ). Further reading: Ask Teresa: How Do You Select Customers for Customer Interviews? It’s all about how you position the ask.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

How to react during stalemates Another challenge that arises in this exploration period is the fatigue attached to not having a vision that you strongly believe in. Should pre-PMF startups look like this in the end? About 80% of startups don’t find product-market fit. So we mean actual working prototype here. What do you think?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. Cutting overhead is definitely not personal—it’s all about how managers perceive an employee’s value.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption. You’ll learn about: The Ethical Product Matrix and how to identify where your product falls. Lots more that Else will unveil.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2020

You’ve got multiple offers from startups engineering positions, but how do you choose which one to take? How about if one is in an industry you love but another is in a location you love? You already have more than one offer, so you’re in a position to negotiate. It’s the wild west out there.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 9, 2022

April Dunford: Confusing Positioning and Strategy. I do positioning, and they’re like, hey, yeah, it’s the same thing.” How are vision, strategy, and positioning related? In a startup there’s a vision of where we think the company is going to be in like 5-10 years. Positioning. April Dunford.

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Bryce York

APRIL 7, 2024

Apply for entry-level or associate product manager positions, highlighting your transferable skills from other roles as well as any product management projects and experience. The post How To Become A Product Manager appeared first on Bryce York - Startup Product Leader.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I recently completed the process of hiring for a Head of Design role at my current company and was surprised when I couldn’t find much quality content anywhere (YouTube, Medium, even Google) on how to assess a designer’s portfolio, especially a designer for a senior leadership position. Brings expertise & inspiration.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2024

Looking for the right revenue growth formula to keep track of your numbers and know how well you’re performing? This article shows you how to calculate revenue growth in the short and long term. Without considering other factors that affect revenue growth, startups tend to grow more rapidly than mature companies.

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First Round Review

JUNE 4, 2019

Qualitative market research is the catalyst for creativity that not enough startups are taking advantage of. Jesse Caesar demystifies qual, outlines the questions that qual's uniquely positioned to tackle and shares how startups at any stage can add this powerful resource to their toolkits.

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First Round Review

JUNE 3, 2019

Qualitative market research is the catalyst for creativity that not enough startups are taking advantage of. Jesse Caesar demystifies qual, outlines the questions that qual's uniquely positioned to tackle and shares how startups at any stage can add this powerful resource to their toolkits.

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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. Let’s have look at what product positioning actually is, what it involves, the benefits of effective positioning, the strategies you can employ, and the risks of ignoring all the wisdom in this article.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

In this article, We will tackle what goes wrong with today’s product roadmaps, and we will talk about how a fast-paced mid-size startup found exciting ways to create a roadmap that’s indeed achievable. How To Come Up With An Achievable Product Roadmap? What were these issues, and how did you overcome them?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

How to Become a Product Manager Here is a process on how to become a product manager: 1. We also wrote about how we might quantitatively / qualitatively measure the ROI of rolling out product development of this feature and what would determine feature success. Otherwise, skip ahead. You can follow these tips: 1.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Learn communication, coordination, lifecycle management, how to keep your teams on track, and plenty more in our in-depth course.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

He’s been applying for positions for months and has found it nearly impossible to get an interview. More than many other roles, PM positions tend to have stringent qualifications for desired applicants. If you are a consultant, you might apply to a product position at Deloitte, who will understand and value your background.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. how does “becoming the leading provider of…” bring everyone back to earth? Here’s the thing. It doesn’t.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

Why you should work at a StartUp: Clarifying Reasons The number of people looking for jobs at StartUps has been growing year after year in the last decade, a modest number of students are already planning to work in this type of company since the early years of the University.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Organizations focused on measurable customer success understand that an MVP does one thing exceptionally well: provides positive customer outcomes that can be quantified. Any company can create an MVP, from startups to fully developed organizations with large portfolios. When Should You Create an MVP So, when is an MVP helpful?

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Antwak Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Most business Entrepreneurs and Data Scientists can disclose how to triumph with (AI) and ML, yet rarely anyone can share to fail with such technologies. Let’s talk about nine innovative approaches to censure any AI startup to bankruptcy. #1 Only technology isn’t enough to make progress, regardless of how strong it is.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Interested in learning how to grow a global business, I chose to join Google Maps as a PM to help grow our rideshare and deliveries verticals, both at nascent stages. Q: Is there a common thread between the startups you founded in the past? Being a doctor, I knew how hard it was to coordinate my patient’s care.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. how to become the ?1 Competitor Positioning c. To do so, the activities of the PM include: a.

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