Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Did you know that 42% of startups fail because no one wants to buy their product? For corporations, nearly 80% of new products fail each year for the exact same reason. So why are we still developing products no one wants? Who owns Product/Market fit – Marketing, Sales, or Business?

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

What does a product manager do? We look at: 7 key responsibilities of product managers. Different kinds of product manager roles. Qualities of a good product manager. TL;DR A product manager is in charge of the entire product lifecycle. Who is a product manager?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

A lot of information and knowledge comes your way when you’re a new Product Manager. But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?)

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a SaaS product manager? The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams. How to Become SaaS Product Manager?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become a machine learning product manager? 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. Keep on reading then.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a product manager is a frustrating chicken-and-egg problem. Companies like to hire people with prior product management experience and it’s hard to get prior experience as successful product managers without first becoming a product manager. Otherwise, skip ahead.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. I sat with an entrepreneur who was helping me with market research for the work I do with startup founders and explained to him what I do. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. As I maintained good relationships with my former colleagues, I knew Elium was a very promising product and that the team was full of very talented people. The product and engineering teams grew fast too.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. First, it delays the product launch. But worry not!

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Usersnap

MAY 19, 2022

Think of product-market fit (PMF) as sailing: the product is the sail and demand is the wind. For the boat to work or to make your dreams come true, you need to build a sail (product) and find the wind to power it (or satisfy the needs of the market, and its potential customers). Everyone is going to love it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX.

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Mixpanel

MAY 9, 2024

Hyper-detailed data leads to better product design and iteration decisions. With product analytics , unique actions (called events) that users take within a product are tracked. Product launch analytics examples Product launches are tricky, high-stakes moments for any business. Fortunately, data can help.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While product managers puppeteer a product journey end-to-end, product marketing managers tend to be the masterminds behind releasing said product to market. Despite this generally accepted understanding, coordinating product releases of any size can still get messy. Jeffrey Vocell.

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Roy Madden

JANUARY 29, 2021

You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. It is a unique opportunity to significantly impact the growth trajectory of an exciting startup that is transforming how 15M+ curious minds research and consume information. Grow and lead the product marketing team.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

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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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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 30, 2020

Setting up an effective customer feedback loop is one of the primary responsibilities of the product team. Of all the product management skills , this is one of the most important ones. Are you looking to break into product management ? Then these strategies are a must know for every product professional.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I spend much of my time coaching product leaders : folks who manage teams of product managers and developer+designer+product teams. I also step into companies as an interim VP Product Management. So I have strongly held personal opinions about what’s on the minds of other product leaders.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

What’s the difference between market sensing and market research, you ask? Market research focuses more on the company perspective, whereas market sensing targets the customer perspective. It’s a tool for developing an organization and responding to market dynamics. Be Innovative and Flexible.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Major elements of our sales and marketing plan, designed with companies like this one in mind, needed to be revisited at the least. Among other things, it was soon clear that we’d fallen into a common trap for startups and new products. We’d responded to market traction without properly understanding our users.

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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. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A new product manager is joining my team in a few weeks. Around the same time a product management mentee I advise through the First Round Fast Track program asked how to best “onboard” their new manager. The advice I provided was similar to the approach I took for onboarding my new PM.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2023

If you’re on this page, chances are you’re looking for the best SurveyMonkey alternatives for product managers, HR leaders, or even healthcare professionals. If you’re getting started on surveys, SurveyMonkey can be a starting option if you want to improve customer experience, employee experience, or conduct market research.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS.

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Obo

JANUARY 23, 2019

Zimperium improves planning process and product plans Zimperium , a mobile security systems provider, is using Obo to plan and prioritize new features based on data. Jerome Crochat, Director of Product Management, used Obo to gain stakeholder alignment on the product plan using Drivers.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Many companies struggle to decide whether creating an MVP (minimum viable product ) or MMP (minimum marketable product) or any other type of a minimum product is the right way to start. With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. Let’s get right into details. #1.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle which consists of various phases. And the demands placed upon a product manager often vary depending on the lifecycle stage their product is in. Product managers are required to use different mental muscles and skills for ushering their ward along to the next step in its lifecycle.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

And then the entrepreneurial bug bit, and I started a bagel company in San Francisco – which as far as product-market fit goes, it was so amazingly easy to get there. Meanwhile, I did a little bit of market research, and I found this problem wasn’t unique to New Relic or SaaS companies or really any size of business.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

In the product-led era, listening to customers has never been more essential. Here are some sobering facts: Market research experts Dimensional Research asked consumers which factors impact their level of trust in companies the most. This makes Refiner a great choice for startups without much of a marketing budget.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Product Requirements Docs (PRD) might be one of the product managers’ best friends. Personally, the PRD not only helps me communicate how a product or a feature looks like to the rest of the team, but also keep my thoughts in line and allows me to make more informed decisions about the next steps.

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