PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

You can think of onboarding as the ongoing process of educating your customers in how to get the most out of your SaaS product. Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." Your product managers will be able to build a basic onboarding system in a matter of minutes, without using any code at all.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. Exactly what constitutes activation will vary for different use cases of your product. Our SaaS customers that use walkthroughs have managed to achieve: Higher activation rate. I hear you.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. Product tours generally include a welcome screen , a survey to segment users, a checklist , and experience flows for each of the key activation points. Make it interactive.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 Inexperienced Product Managers: Chameleon is tricky to get to grips with, which is pretty ironic in an onboarding tool!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

By “activate,” I mean experiencing the value of the product in a first-hand, direct way, such as creating your first task on a task management tool. In this example, Ahrefs uses a tooltip to point out a secondary product feature to a user who’s been on the platform for several months already.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

This wasn’t Elad’s first experience with hyper growth – Google grew headcount 10x during his time as a product manager there – nor the last. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. The second is employees.

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Dear Strategy

JANUARY 4, 2019

This is the more traditional type of software product that is installed on and run from a user’s computer. Admittedly, the term “on-premises” might more commonly be used in a business-to-business context, but it technically refers to any type of software that is installed and run from an onsite device rather than in the cloud.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

When you first conceived of your product, you probably had some idea of the value you were providing in both of these areas. For example, if you’re building project management software, then the “Aha Moment” might come when a project manager understands that using your tool is going to make their operations much less chaotic.

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