Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. product marketing, user research, content design, etc.). Let’s go through the steps and action items.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

This mostly worked, but it required a lot of administrative work to keep our systems in sync. There were dozens more that required that we make changes in all of our systems. At the heart of all of my administrative troubles was the need to move data in between disparate systems and to make sure that all of these systems were in sync.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible. When an API is hard to learn or hard to use, it takes longer for the customer to get value from it. With consumer and B2B products, we put a ton of time and energy into our onboarding process. Why does this happen?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Customer Retention Rate (CRR) is a key business performance metric that measures the percentage of customers a company retains over a givenperiod. CRR formula, reference values andexample Customer Retention Rateformula Number of customers at the end of the period : Total number of customers at the end of the measuredperiod.

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Userpilot

JUNE 2, 2025

This leads to errors like sending a product update notification at 1 AM or showing the wrong message to the wrong user segment. 78% of users churn in the first week after installation when brands dont have a clear engagement strategy based on regular push notifications. One swipe, and your user is back in the app.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

It’s no longer about making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week—if not every day. They were hoping to get a general sense of whether they had more consumer or business users.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. But that view only reflects web users.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. These steps are designed for even the humblest of budgets and will help not just with acquisition, but with the entire spectrum: validation, testing, engagement, retention, referrals, and revenue. It’s marketing. The bad news?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market, and includes mobile benchmarks across 10 main categories and 20 subcategories. 63% of consumers who were proactively engaged in Q1 were still seen later in the year (Q3-Q4).

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UserVoice

APRIL 4, 2017

To keep it simple, we’ve organized our list along a set of broad objectives that product managers must inevitably negotiate: Analysis, User Research, Roadmapping, Project Management, Design & Development, Behavioral Analytics, and Strategy. Many PMs rely on Excel and Google Sheets due to their wide availability and ease of use.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. It was all about understanding customer needs and delivering something that solved a real problem.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 12, 2025

Tips and Insights to Create Intuitive, User-Centered DataTables Data tables provide a structured way to organize and manage information, making it easier to analyze and visualize data effectively. Well-designed tables enable users to access, analyze, and act on critical information quickly and accurately.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. What is the purpose of feedback repositories?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This part is about shortening feedback loops. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. Yes, I changed the names of the functionality because the names don't matter.). It was time to see their feedback loops. I admit it.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

How to create customer feedback systems to gain insights into user needs ? TL;DR Customer feedback systems are frameworks for collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer feedback for actionable insights. NPS surveys track customer loyalty and provide insights into their satisfaction.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Lots of social stuff, banking, travel, local services, fitness, cooking, more than a few games, even apps made by governments. Text introduces us to each app, starting with its name, and text guides us to how apps work and what value they provide, from instructions and inputs to settings and disclaimers.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

Coronavirus didn’t break your mobile feedback funnel; it revealed it was broken all along. In this presentation originally delivered at Mobile Growth Summit, Apptentive’s CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, dives into exactly how companies can use feedback to predict churn and extend customer lifetime value.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Why do products fail, and what can the teams do to build products that customers need? And these have helped his team to understand what to build and, more importantly, what not to build for the customers. And hence its extremely important to understand what customers need and build the products accordingly.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Here we’ll give you some guidelines and best practices, whether you’re just beginning to include usability testing in your processes or are setting out to up your usability testing game. Usability tests check if people can use a product. What is usability testing? What is the purpose of usability testing?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re building a consumer subscription app, this post is your new bible. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing technology – or MarTech – stacks are the groups of technologies that marketers use to execute, analyze and improve their marketing across the customer lifecycle. To summarize: Martech isn’t about making your strategy fit to the technology you want to use. Here’s a tried and tested formula: Pick a topic/keyword.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? In B2B companies, value should ultimately generate profit (get new customers, upsell to current customers, or avoid churn), and it ends up in an equation like this. In fact, some methods are pretty poor.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. Not only are there over 2 million apps in the Google Play Store , but also about 13% of business apps succeed (even less for consumer apps).

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UX Planet

MAY 1, 2025

Below are the principles that help me avoid getting overwhelmed by Figma files, deadlines, and reviews, and instead focus on the essence: creating valuable products that userslove. Make it, test it, and refine itlater. The important thing is to be able to test and move on. Naming conventions: Organizing your design system 5.

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Userpilot

MAY 17, 2025

Tracking user behavior analytics in mobile apps is a whole different challenge compared to the web. Without a global DOM or easy auto-capture tools, tracking mobile app user behavior takes more planning. You need clear goals, the right events, and analytics tools that fit your app’s journey.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2022

Looking to build a customer feedback strategy for your business? This post will discuss why knowing what customers feel about your SaaS business is important and how to collect and analyze feedback to keep old customers and generate new ones. Ready to start implementing a customer feedback strategy?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers). Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself. “Fairness” isn’t coming.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. The customer’s needs have changed or the customers didn’t understand their own needs.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Nobody likes getting negative feedback. If you don’t like getting negative feedback either – congratulations! You’d probably pass the Turing Test! But the whole point of killing it like a pro – in product or elsewhere – is not to take negative feedback personally. You’re a human!

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

Looking for the best tools for interactive user guides for your company? There are plenty of solutions for interactive user guides on review sites, but they dont make the choice any easier. In this post, Ill explain which interactive user guide software is the best fit for your company and needs.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The answer is to engage a trusted outside source for a Technical Review – a deep-dive assessment that provides a C-suite perspective. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. Your tech team is suggesting a costly, time-consuming overhaul.

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Usersnap

JULY 26, 2020

Most developers have no clue about how testing is actually done, and how valuable the understanding of software testing basics can be for developers who really want to excel in their careers. I owe a large amount of the success I have had in my career as a software developer to my background in testing. Click To Tweet.

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech. Again, if eyes are on your resume, the uniqueness of the headline will cause the reviewer to slow down and take it in. I wish I had a magic wand.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

As a product leader, you already understand that successful products solve important problems for people, create emotional connection with their users, and meet real market needs. And how can I best show up for [name other team member(s)]? If not, your research is still surface-level. If gaps exist, deepen your research.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Exploring How AI Will Revolutionize Design System Creation, Maintenance, and Usage Design systems are an important part of every product app or website. Apart from the use and growth of design systems, the revolution of AI technology is here, and it will affect many places in our design process. But how will it be affected?

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