Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Define your marketing personas. To do this it is necessary to create marketing personas that represent your ideal prospect or match your ideal customer profile. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Ability to incorporate customer feedback : Incorporating customer feedback makes you develop and make appropriate iterations to your product for better customer retention. Product analysts play a critical role in translating user data into actionable insights for product teams. Looking into tools for product analysts?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. The #1 reason that startups fail is that they make something nobody wants. We met at a local park.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. Each individual phase of this life cycle presents unique challenges that can make or break any company. Why Do Most Startups Fail? No Market Need. The standard failure rate for startups is 90 percent.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The market, however, understood it differently. 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. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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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. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial.

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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. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. As with all marketing efforts , positioning should be driven by the customer and their needs.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. According to CB Insights, this is 42% of startups. Speed to Market.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Consumer touchpoints help to evaluate the degree of customer satisfaction and timely spot friction points (product bugs, lousy customer experience, poor UX, etc.). Why are customer touchpoints important?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Average salary: $192,383/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. Only four months after I joined, I gave a presentation in our annual sales kickoff about how to deal with things that our competitors are saying about us.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. Sometimes it makes me crazy AF.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. At startups or growth stage companies, a “Product Manager” is responsible for identifying what needs to be built and then executing on building the product. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This is a question used in product-market fit surveys. Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Before signing up for your product, your prospect has researched the market and evaluated a number of options.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In the world of startups, there’s a truism that 9 out of 10 companies fail. But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

to achieve your goals when it comes to building your first prototype with the ultimate goal to find product-market fit. The Lean Startup ???? The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is one of the first books that captured the ideas of the iterative Idea-Build-Measure-Learn process. as an entrepreneur?—?to

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

For more than a decade people, departments and entire companies (including his own) have asked Paul Young, currently Vice President of Products at Pragmatic Marketing , to deliver successful and continuously improving products. Understanding your strategy and placement in your market is key.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? 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. It may be a one-page website or a Powerpoint presentation?—?test

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. and Facebook.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As I’m writing this post, 76,942 employees in tech startups have been laid off due to the recession in 2022 alone (according to Layoffs.fyi Tracker). After some epic tech startup fails in the recent months , the VCs clearly stopped believing in the ‘unicorn dreams’. The market crash didn’t help.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

And too often I’ve seen poor leaders resort to micro-management, HIPPO, and dictatorship in order to fulfil their strategies. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. However, this presents two new challenges for Product Leaders: How do you lead a group of leaders? How do I build alignment?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. Customer Retention Strategies for Your Marketing & Sales Departments. The marketing and sales warriors in the trenches creating blog posts, running email campaigns, and closing deals.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2024

Our review presents a variety of analytics platforms, from privacy-focused to feature-rich, ensuring you’ll find the right tool that respects user data, integrates easily, and scales with your SaaS business. The platform’s no-code capabilities make it accessible for teams without extensive technical expertise.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

In a free market, successful companies that become complacent or comfortable with their share of the market, who don’t carefully consider the needs of the customer, become less competitive over time. There has never been a greater rate of change for customer expectations, the landscape of the market, and what is technically possible.

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If you’ve not heard of Celonis before, it’s a SaaS company that focuses on one thing product teams tend to either love or hate: process map diagramming. Essential reads for product teams New from the Department of Product this week: ? Enjoy the rest of your week!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo through 2017, improving retention was the top priority of Gina Gotthilf. Gina stepped away from Duolingo at the beginning of 2018 to help non-profits better understand the growth and marketing principles that thrive in today’s tech world. Bridging the gap between marketing and growth.

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