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Product Pick’Em 2025: The Ultimate Startup Showdown

Productside

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Product PickEm 2025: The Ultimate Startup Showdown The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. April 4: The final battleonly one startup will take the crown. Who makes it to the finals? Thats up to YOU.

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Product Pick’Em 2025: The Ultimate Startup Showdown

Productside

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but have been less successful services. [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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What the evolution of cities can teach us about building platforms

Intercom, Inc.

Why was WhatsApp successful when there were other similar messaging platforms? Why did Slack conquer the workplace messaging field in the face of so many competitors? They took note and improved public transport and implemented bike schemes, for instance. Why do you use Facebook and not MySpace? Build platforms like cities.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

And even now we set up new companies, we set up a new startup in COVID actually, in lockdown, and we’ve taken that. The use of the burning of fossil fuels for energy, the use of fossil fuels for transport, then animals basically. And then transport’s a big problem. And that’s what we work on.

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups. Transportation and travel. Above: New technology has always captivated consumers! My investing thesis.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. These were painstakingly thorough with tables full of dialog copy, error messages, and more. Elon Musk has put out some of my favorite product vision walkthroughs.