Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

The Value Isnt Clear Too many product pitches start with Heres what we want to build. Everyones Pulling in a Different Direction When theres no shared vision, product, engineering, and business teams fill in the blanks differently. Its used all the time in filmmakingbut in product, its a powerful way to make ideas real.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul (Adams, our SVP of Product) delve into how product teams can and should partner with their marketing team peers. Product people need to think end to end. Today’s episode is actually about marketing. What is product marketing?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market, and a well-curated product marketing strategy is key to understanding customer needs and driving adoption. TL;DR A product marketing strategy is a roadmap for how a new product will be positioned, priced, and marketed.

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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. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

You’ve got your product out in the market. But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? Now’s the time to iterate.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

No one knows your vision and product as deeply as you do. Salespeople can’t replicate the passion, vision, and insights you can offer. Use that knowledge to connect with potential customers. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. Huge ripple effect?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 6, 2025

Ivan shares the untold story of Notion, from nearly running out of database space during Covid to finding product-market fit after several “lost years,” and the hard-won lessons along the way. Key insight: Hold your vision, but pivot on tactics when needed. ” The big lesson was to solve a real user need. .”

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Here’s why a portfolio vision is so critical to the success of your products and how it elevates Product Management, Product Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams to plan and execute more strategically. That’s why it’s referred to as your North Star. It never changes!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And yet, useful improvements do not always add up to the desired results , especially when growth is a problem and the market is saturated with similar solutions. In this article, I talk about spotlight vision, when and how to switch focus, and provide six research ideas to consider when ready to broaden the view.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How do you design a marketing roadmap that structures your project and keeps your team organized through the marketing lifecycle? A high-level strategic plan is the life force of a successful product marketing campaign. It connects business objectives to your marketing efforts and covers every important detail.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

What does a product marketing manager (PMM) do? This is the question on the lips of many marketing professionals browsing through opportunities at tech companies. Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2023

At Intercom, we’ve reinvented different parts of our product many times over the years – most recently, our Messenger. This evolution always starts with one thing: a clear product vision. All products follow the same life cycle: development, growth, maturity, decline. An inevitable slide into decline sounds ominous.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

This has been challenging to navigate as there are not many resources available on how to manage not only a maturing product but the changes that come with rapid organisational growth. As the first and most senior PM, I recognized the need to clarify vision, formalize processes, and set a proactive agenda moving forward.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

It applies to a brand-new product as well as an existing one whose current strategy is no longer valid, for example, as market conditions change. This means that strategy discovery is crucial not only to developing an initial offering ( MVP ) but also to achieving product-market fit and sustaining growth.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This openness encouraged deeper discussions within the team and helped clarify the project’s direction, ultimately aligning everyone on the vision. These are stronger indicators of interest that tell you they really want your product, versus general positive feedback. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2022

Micro goals vs macro goals in product marketing: Have you ever wondered what the difference is and how can you use both to achieve customer success and product growth ? As a product marketing manager, you need to set goals that would guide and motivate you and your team members. Nailing the value proposition.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The product manager’s roles and responsibilities Being a product manager often means balancing multiple priorities. We’re everywhere at once – crafting product vision , digging into customer research, and somehow keeping engineering, marketing, and sales teams all moving in the same direction.

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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. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Short on time?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a company size where not all strategy can originate with the founder; we need to diversify markets, enter new markets, and have at least points-of-view on emerging markets and how we will address them. This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play? How do we win?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. They define the product vision , strategy, and roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

However, if there’s one skill that is common to all product managers, it’s continuous market monitoring and research. That’s where a market requirements document comes into play. The market requirement document is a strategic artefact that product managers usually write. Who are the user personas in this market?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising, technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Because technology differentiation is no longer a real factor today start ups, it turns out that most products are succeeding or failing due to core product/market fit followed by the distribution strategy. There are over 9 million mobile apps. There are a billion websites. Figuring out distribution is key.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., the Product Manager role is a rather recent phenomenon. As a result, there are various different approximations that are made about the role in an organization depending upon their experience with building products.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2024

In product management, where data and features often take the spotlight, the power of storytelling is sometimes underestimated. Yet, it is this very skill that can elevate a product from a mere concept to an inspiring vision. This narrative approach doesn’t just sell products; it sells a vision of what’s possible.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2020

To Commit, begin business modeling, make a financial model, do market validation research, and do resource allocation. [16:38] Again, product management is less involved than development. [17:41] To Deliver, the product managers who are also product marketing managers need to plan the launch.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables. Vision: Vision Narrative. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

A lot of companies are pumping out demos of AI passing the bar exam or creating a marketing plan in 30 seconds. The marketing plan created in 30 seconds is not good enough to implement. ” [10:51] Tell us about your framework for digital transformation. The marketing plan created in 30 seconds is not good enough to implement.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 6, 2024

If there’s one thing product managers and product marketing managers wish they had more time for, it’s market research. Second and even more important, the process of doing market research even if you have a fulltime person doing it, is still terribly time-consuming and inefficient. Summer Intern Anyone?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 26, 2023

He has also been a long-time supporter of the University of Iowa Institute for Vision Research, which is creating cures and solutions everyone can afford for vision diseases. Ken will be sharing lessons learned from years of product innovation wisdom. Innovation is people, culture, vision, and execution.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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