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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

High-growth companies have an obsession with customer obsession. have proven that being customer-obsessed can both deliver great shareholder value and create a sustainable market advantage over time. Saying that customer obsession is required for growth is one thing. Do you have the right incentives for that leadership?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This is the same difference that exists between companies who merely claim to be “customer-focused” or “customer-obsessed,” and those that truly are. Companies that are committed to their customers invest in the skills and tools to make customer happiness happen. If you didn’t catch part 1, it was on leadership?—?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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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. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

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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. The consequence?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. The good news is that product-market fit, like people, and cars, have their own “operating system”.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Eric Ries is a name synonymous with innovation and startup success. As an entrepreneur, author, and advisor, Eric has transformed the way businesses approach building products and launching startups with his Lean Startup methodology. Eric Ries is an entrepreneur, author, advisor, and the creator of the Lean Startup methodology.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To survive and succeed, your product leadership must be sharper than ever. We were trying to catch up and close the timeline gaps SARS has created for an important tech transfer project with a Chinese startup. That’s why we must take action and test it. I temporarily relocated there with 2 more developers from my company.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product management and leadership speakers. But how do you do that?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2023

Not to mention, thanks to the viral effects the internet provides, modern users are incredibly savvy. Users will be vocal about the products they do, don’t like using, and don’t settle for less than the very best. PLG is an emerging concept revolutionizing how businesses attract, retain, and grow their user base.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. The reason I’m talking here primarily about startups is that they are much more volatile than larger companies. For startups, this can be the end. We are a startup, after all. And guess what?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2021

To start a startup, to take on incumbents, to disrupt an industry – all of this requires believing that you see things changing. Believing that customers who try it will see better results. So we wanted to learn more about these tectonic shifts in the support world so that we could share them with you, our customers, and our readers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey. More specifically, the customer profiles that work best.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Leadership and management books haven’t been included because when you’re just a small team, amping up leadership capability provides less leverage than solid execution of the topics that I will cover. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank?—?This Lean Startup by Eric Ries?—?Build,

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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?” However, coaching tends to consume a smaller percentage of your time as a Product Manager than it does as a Product Leader.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “product-market fit” that is the manna from heaven to a modern corp.

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UX Studio: Product Management

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Including UX research in any UX project is crucial for all businesses with any digital platform. This is great news, but finding the best UX research agency can be challenging for companies in need. To help you find the right match we collected the best UX research consultancies you can work with. . Competitor Analysis.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. Listen to your customers 3. Let’s g(r)o(w)! ?

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

An efficient and easy product feedback loop is an essential component of every successful product. Setting up an effective customer feedback loop is one of the primary responsibilities of the product team. Product Feedback Loop – Strategies. Let us take a closer look at these feedback strategies. Dogfooding.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Userpilot publishes well-researched and in-depth articles on all aspects of product management including product growth, retention, and adoption. Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. OpenView Venture Partners’ blog offers insights into the financial side of running a startup.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? The initial phases 2 and 3 (the time between startups raising Series A to raising Series B) play a massive role in achieving the 2T3D growth dream.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. Champions a customer-centric approach. Let’s go! Drives product success.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. Who is LUCA Theory?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Established organizations are seeing a lot of external change—new technologies, new behaviors among customers and employees, and digital change. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Where do we see our world, context, customers, and industry going? There’s a tension between the external and the internal.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

. – Jobs-to-be-Done theory focuses on understanding the customer’s underlying needs and the jobs they are trying to accomplish with a product. Introduction In today’s competitive market, creating products that customers love is crucial for the success of any organization.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. What makes startups fail or succeed in their mission?”, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. and so on.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

She’s spent her eight years in Product working for a variety of digital companies – from startups to publicly listed multinationals. Users often don’t have a plan associated with their very fancy iPhone. When she started at N26 it was a relatively small company with about 380 staff, half of whom worked in customer support.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2024

As a product management veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience, I’ve worked with numerous organizations looking to transform their approach to building and delivering products. It’s about influencing a company’s culture to embrace experimentation, learning, and customer-centricity.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Every dollar’s worth of expense is a fight, and spending 30% of the budget on “simply asking questions” (read: UX research) can be a hard sell. How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction? A UX audit is an expert assessment of your product’s usability and user experience.

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