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Key Differences Between the Role of a Product Manager in Startups vs. Large Enterprises

Product Management Unpacked

Companies of all sizes across industries are looking to hire product managers. With this in mind, company culture, resources and the specific demands of different roles probably play a big part in your decision to take a product management position at a company. Product Management at a Startup .

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Can Lean Product Management Help Startups Build Strong Products?

The Product Coalition

Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’). As any startup will tell you, managing an idea from concept to launch is a lot easier said than done.

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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. Looking back, I didn’t see these activities as marketing with a capital M, but they absolutely were. Founding a startup is a lot like this. I didn’t have a perfectly mapped out startup marketing strategy. Absolutely not.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower - Product Management

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product.

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Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea

ProductPlan

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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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

What do startups and Fortune 500 companies have in common? They rely on data to power products, business insights, and marketing strategy. An interactive guide filled with the tools to turn your data into a competitive advantage.