People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I am leveraging my product background in both coaching and advising AI-driven startups. Pivot 1: CRM Strategist to User Experience Researcher Key Strategies: Leverage Your Unique Background : My communications skills became my secret weapon in translating complex tech concepts to marketing stakeholders.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. Andrea Saez – Writer, Speaker, Advisor | Sr PMM @ Product School. 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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

Having an internal test kitchen where hypotheses can be proven or disproven quickly and with the smallest amount of effort reduces time and increases accuracy to market. A hindrance that keeps a company from getting a product to market sooner. Bevy’s product was unintentionally incubated through a sister organization, Startup Grind.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Can you afford local market rates? For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. As with anything complex, it depends.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 13, 2024

Gustaf Alströmer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator , where he has worked with over 600 startups. It’s just like they don’t talk to users, which means they don’t find product-market fit. And if they don’t find product-market fit, nothing else really matters. .” External validation (e.g.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I stuck around for another year as an advisor, so I really saw extreme growth in both of those cases. You start to see these common patterns in terms of how things tend to evolve.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. How Will GDPR Affect Your Customers? The right of access.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

To create a successful product strategy, you’ll need to research your market , identify your target audience, and define your unique value proposition. He has worked with product managers from small startups to large enterprises and strongly believes that great product teams build great products. What market gaps have they left?

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

If you are lucky, there is someone in the company that has thought about your on-boarding, but many times especially if this is a small startup, there isn’t. As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

Hailing from a tenured career in product management, she was just super passionate about working with startups. “I I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! So I was exploring some ideas of my own and also meeting a lot of startups, typically in an advisory capacity.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The framework is based on his experience advising dozens of consumer subscription businesses, as well as his analysis of over 30,000 consumer subscription apps (based on proprietary data provided by RevenueCat ) and interviews with leaders at dozens of top consumer subscription companies. Public company market caps are from 8/30/24.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. John also hosts another podcast called Growth Marketing Today where he’s interviewed product and marketing leaders like Sean Ellis, April Dunford, and Hiten Shah. mechanical engineering, marketing, economics.)

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? We are a team of a designer, two developers, a marketer and me as a product manager. It’s super important that any team member can suggest topics to discuss, so in a product meeting many things come up from engineering topics to design and marketing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. Don’t hire me as a PM if you are not ready to hear hard truths about the market, the real expectations of customers (hint: they don’t *need* your product), or the difficulties of the teams. I’m not speaking for all Product Managers but here is my list.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. If you’re looking for your next job in growth, or you’re trying to fill one at your company, consider this a peek into how a few other growth marketing experts are structuring their growth interviews. They pulled together a great essay below!].

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. What are product tours?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

If you are lucky, there is someone in the company that has thought about your on-boarding, but many times, especially if this is a small startup, there isn’t. I have just landed into such a situation, starting as a VP product in a small startup. You may be wrong because you don’t know the market or product well enough yet.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. They may find themselves working with privately owned businesses like startups. There exist many non-technical PMs. PMs live and breathe their product as they work iteratively to improve the experience for the end user.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 The best results for your customers come when all the tools in your marketing stack work together. Performance marketers, CRM experts, and anyone else for whom real-time data is vital.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

Therefore, it’s advisable to filter your industry when looking for an exact yearly salary figure. It’s possible also to find startup jobs that pay well above the average B2B sales and product manager salary. Other factors that play a role are location and technical expertise.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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