Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. Chaos Report 2015. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Hybrid work environments are now commonplace, requiring distributed teams to find ways to collaborate effectively using tools like Zoom, Teams, Jira, Slack and others across various time zones, while bringing innovative products to market.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. So, What is Market Validation? What is market validation?

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Roy Madden

JANUARY 29, 2021

We are looking for a VP Marketing with a proven track record of driving growth in an early stage B2B SaaS environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. Work cross-functionally with teammates across the company to launch new features on time and at a high quality bar.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 5, 2015

The hunt for finding product/market fit in an early-stage startup is an elusive one, often fraught with chaos, and certainly never easy. I've led the hunt for product/market fit in 3 startups that I co-founded and also had the opportunity to do so for 3 new products launched at established tech giants LinkedIn and Microsoft.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? The EDC is an autonomous body that promotes the cultivation of startups and entrepreneurial ideas. During my time in the EDC, I participated in startup brainstorming sessions. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? You’ve done the hard work of building a product or a specific feature that people want. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. SaaS go-to-market plans can be used in several use cases.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

That’s the thought behind every product innovation, from software platforms to mobile devices, food products, furniture or any consumer product y ou can imagine. It’s the spark that gives rise to innovative, ground-breaking product development. . A Phased Approach to the Product Process . Phase 2: Plan .

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s heart-breaking that, after all the effort that goes into developing and launching a new Product, from so many different people, 40% of product launches fail. Markham’s landmark study showed [1] and this is what we learned about at the latest Product Talks in Sydney. lack of effective product marketing.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As markets mature, the competitive landscape gets crowded. Industry veterans and startups quickly try to stand out in an already clustered SaaS market. It takes more than just keeping up with the competition on product comparison checklists to stay relevant. Killer features for niche markets.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In our “Behind the Product” series, we discuss examples of products or services that highlight a particular product management concept or principle. The target market. Clearly Costco was putting a lot of effort behind the new product launch. A bit of background. Running the numbers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Drives product success. Which roles exist in product management teams?

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I encourage you to be on a quest of your own, and even better a particularly interesting quest, so that your conversations with people can be as productive as possible. In my case, I was very interested in the state of the art on growing users, metrics, network effects, and marketing. Thank you!) There are endless varieties.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Andrea, who calls herself a “Product Thinker” and “a professional asker of many questions”, has amassed 1600 followers on her Medium account. Andrea has 15+ years of experience in Product Management and Marketing, from SMBs to large enterprises and educational organizations such as Product School.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Let’s look at some of the more serious consequences of excessive engineering that can plague your product far into the future. Longer development cycles Developing unwanted features delays the product launch or the update release. First, it delays the product launch. Finding the product-market fit.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. Number of Platform Downtimes : Your company will be more effective if the SaaS product has low downtimes.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

Despite the mountain of evidence contradicting the mantra of “if you build it, they will come”, it’s still extremely prevalent among product-first companies. In this article, you’ll learn how to: Understand the role of product marketing. Start creating your product marketing plan.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2018

Pilot units can be used most effectively for sales and marketing purposes: demo samples, collateral development, trade show inventory, and so on. The question for the product manager is how many units should be allocated for these purposes. Make it too late and you risk going to market at too high of a price or too low of a margin.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

If you're the type of person who wants to own the product lifecycle and plan big things, you may be disappointed early in your career! Even if you're not 100% committed to the products you're building, your team needs you to be on board. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2020

Useful for breaking into brand new markets. Smaller startups may only be able to use one or two efficient and cheap methods, whereas massive companies will be able to do much more. Or rather, making sure that your ‘why’ both solves a real problem and that you’re building the right product for it. Use it for post-launch feedback.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

How many people should there be in your SaaS product marketing team? When should you start building a product marketing team and what role should you hire first? Let's talk about how to build and structure product marketing teams for SaaS products. SaaS product marketing team structure.

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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. It helps the customer understand your product and how it can satisfy their needs.

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Brian Balfour

JANUARY 24, 2019

Right now someone, or an entire team, inside your company is probably pouring a ton of energy and thought into a new product or feature launch. Nine months after being acquired, Buzzfeed reported on an internal memo from the TBH founders about how to execute product launches. This looks like a five step loop.

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Userpilot

JULY 15, 2019

In-app marketing – Everyone’s doing it in bits and pieces. This guide will give you a holistic idea of in-app marketing, what to improve and how to attract, acquire and retain more users. Ultimately, using in-app marketing to retain customers and upsell to your users is a no-brainer. I hope you enjoy the guide!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2018

Align everyone in sales, marketing, product, customer success, and professional services. Photo by Jungwoo Hong on Unsplash You’ve been planning this launch and everyone involved in the process knows everything they need to know. The secret to a successful product launch is in the consistency of the process.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

Product marketing can be tricky to define. It’s not sales, it’s not product management , and it’s not “traditional” marketing either. In this article, we’ll demystify product marketing for product managers. What is Product Marketing’s Job?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It also lays the foundation for a more intensive market-fit investigation, later on, to make sure it’s profitable. Idea validation also isn’t just for physical or digital products. It can be used to validate new logos, slogans, marketing collateral, or branding. Marketing a new product launch is an entire field all on its own.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

But when you delve a little deeper, you’ll notice that product features impact the entire value chain of a business or product: Value – is what you’re building valuable? Marketing – how will you tell people that you’ve built something? Marketing It’s a similar story for product marketing.

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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

In these startup-driven times, where we build products people love using, we have the obligation to provide the best customer service. As a small company or startup, you probably deal with all kind of different things when starting your business. OK, you’ve launched a new product on the market and started growing your business.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit. Everpix and Google Wave didn’t satisfy the market. It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

He is very involved in content marketing discussions on his blog. In particular, he is interested in successful launch strategies and growth hacking visibility across the key marketing platforms. He is also very interested in the future of automation for marketers and overall product practitioners.

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280 Group

APRIL 11, 2023

TLDR Joe Ghali answered 5 audience questions that he and Elad Simon (of Craft.io), did not have time for in our recent “How to Grow Your Product Management Career in an Uncertain Economy” webinar. How to Switch Your Product Management Career from One Domain to Another? What is the list of ideas or problems to solve?

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Hello and welcome to the Pragmatic Live podcast series where we tackle the biggest challenges facing today's product management, product marketing, and other market and data driven professionals with some of the best minds in the industry. I'm a principal product marketer here at HubSpot. Yeah, absolutely.

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