Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 7, 2022

Trends influencing the future of leadership – for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers should know about the future of leadership. By the nature of the role, product managers are leaders, as they must influence others, and many product managers will be in senior leadership roles in the future.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. It also serves over 45% of the Fortune 100.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

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. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 15, 2025

At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This month, we’re focusing on all things Product Leadership. Before we start diving into the ins and outs of leadership in Product Management, it’s important to ask and to understand what we mean by Product Leadership. they’re in a Product leadership role. Keep an eye out for events, podcasts, blogs, and more!

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

. “You grow into the big, bloated company once you stop being a startup” This talk I gave at Web Summit 2021 is about pushing back against that. Here, I dive into how to remain a startup, what to look out for as you scale, and how to grow up without growing old. The key takeaway?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 6, 2020

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Example: Sarah is a support manager at a fast-growing startup. Share it with leadership. Bringing Product Stories to Life Storyboarding is a leadership tool that helps product managers cut through confusion, align faster, and influence decisions that matter. Not a persona. Ask yourself: Who is this for? Whats frustrating them?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

ProductTank founder, co-founder of Mind the Product, author of a bestselling book on Product leadership, you will have heard him speak or read something he’s written. Read more » The post Helping startups to build a product practice appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

While the role still requires strong leadership skills, the most successful product managers approach their work differently than what the “CEO of the product” phrase might suggest. As we’ll explore in this article, effective product management requires a unique blend of skills that goes beyond traditional leadership models.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2024

He reflects on how getting feedback early can prevent costly mistakes and save precious time and resources, especially for startups with limited runway. Drew explains how, early in his career, he spent too much time making assumptions and building features before validating them with users.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Digital transformation is the transformation of an established business to thrive in a digital age of constant change. This is about established businesses. This is about established businesses.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Startups are often talked about as if they’re all the same, as if experience in one is directly transferable to another. The post The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. She covers why she [.]. Links mentioned in this episode. Get in Touch, Rate Us, and More!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Ever since I took my first step into the dynamic landscape of the startup scene in Israel, proclaimed as the ‘Startup Nation,’ my professional journey has been a continual source of learning over many years. A significant factor contributing to this is the trend of Israeli startups primarily targeting US or European markets.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2023

Product leader Dave Martin delves into the uncertainty of startups, and discusses why focusing on short term plans is a dangerous drug. Read more » The post Product leadership in a chaotic world: Balancing short-term and long-term goals appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For startups, creating a customer-obsessed culture is easier if the founders start with it from the beginning, and are open to doing the right thing to scale the culture with their growth. Doing so requires asking 4 main questions: Do you have the right leadership? Do you have the right incentives for that leadership?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?” Moving into product leadership moves you away from the day-to-day hands-on tools and into a primarily coaching role.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

I came to this conclusion recently while talking to the founders of a few high-growth startups. For example, when startups have fewer than 100 employees, founder team members know all players and it’s a lot easier to drive the bus, so to speak. It’s getting the overall strategy into the heads and hearts of front-line employees.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Under her leadership, Vydia’s Product team has successfully launched a record number of robust features in 2019, elevating the company’s services in content supply chain, rights management, analytics, and payments. and Automata Robotics over the last decade.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Congratulations on your new leadership position! Assuming a new leadership role is a significant challenge, whether you’ve transitioned within your current organization or stepped into an entirely new one .Each Each time I stepped into a leadership role was exhilarating and demanding. Welcome to leadership!

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 27, 2025

Our analysis examines several dimensions of tech worker sentiment, including career outlook, role satisfaction, burnout, quitting intentions, career path clarity, leadership effectiveness, work setup preferences, and more. Leadership impacts virtually all worker sentiment dimension s. Workers with extremely effective leadership are 8.2

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. It comes down to making sure there is a product leadership team. Not really.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 18, 2025

This ones all about the nuance of listening how to hear what users really need, not just what they say.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Tobi remains deeply technical, frequently coding alongside his team, and is known for his unique approach to leadership, product development, and company building. Starting as a snowboard shop in 2004, Shopify has become the leading commerce platform by consistently approaching problems differently. Is it dissatisfaction with the status quo?

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This move demonstrates the importance of innovation and risk-taking in maintaining market leadership. Earlier in his career, Greg was a prolific entrepreneur, participating in fourteen startups (founding four) and holding executive roles in organizations ranging from startups to billion-dollar enterprises.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

As Product Manager for a scrappy startup, I led agile sprints, collaborated with leadership and engineers, created user stories, and managed Jira. Magdaline has fifteen years’ consulting in startups, health care, and financial services with clients such as JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, and Wells Fargo.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

She’s coached hundreds of companies from startups to Fortune 50 and loves seeing people and teams transform when they understand how to build products that customers love.   This requires top-down support and leadership to create a culture that values and prioritizes customer-centricity. There are three essential characteristics.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 18, 2025

By embracing wonder, we can transform our leadership approach and unlock our team's full potential. This disconnect illustrates how following a "recipe" for leadership without truly considering and adapting to your team can lead to undesired results. Bringing Wonder to Your Organization How to infuse wonder into your leadership?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 18, 2025

Your startup may be producing the best PMs ever—we just won’t know this yet. It’s the only company to rank in the top 10 on all four dimensions (1st in promotions internally, 5th in promotions externally, 7th in fastest to promotion, and 9th in fastest rise to leadership). More like Win-tech. Read more

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 20, 2020

Now an executive and leadership coach, she’s devoted a lot of time over the last few years to working with teams on [.]. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. The Thick of It and W1A shows.

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Mind the Product

JULY 28, 2020

That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. That’s another level of difficulty and in her new book, The Team That Managed Itself: A Story Of Leadership, Christina Wodtke does just that. Drawing [.]. Timothy Gallwey. *

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

However, with the growing need for innovation and agility, many of these companies are looking at methodologies like Lean Startup to help them adapt and thrive in turbulent waters. In this scenario, trying to implement the Lean Startup methodology might be like suggesting that “shortcut” to the ocean liner.

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