The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. When I open my car’s hood, I see many things, but I have no idea what they are, how they should work, and of course, I’m unable to identify what went wrong in case of a problem.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Product Managers are problem people.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

I've been reflecting on the last decade in Product Management. Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy."

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

I’m excited to be named Product Executive in Residence (PXIR) at Carnegie Mellon University. This new PXIR role enables CMU to bring the voice of industry into classrooms and product leadership curricula. Why Choose Carnegie Mellon for Product Management? Why the MS in Product Management degree?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How to achieve product-market fit – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is also the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976. Underserved needs Product: 3.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I find that most founders tend to focus, primarily on describing their idea to the exclusion of everything else. I’ve heard thousands of “elevator pitches” and they generally focus on the idea and not the team, the market, differentiation, or anything else. Of course what you emphasize depends on your background.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 11, 2024

Types of Customer Feedback Final Thoughts Customer feedback provides cross-functional teams with confirmation that they are on the right path, which leads to the development of products that bring value to customers. Products that impact their lives for the better. What makes a product great? Why is Customer Feedback Important?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You see, whenever I would join a new company, I would spend much of my time meeting with engineering, sales, product management, and design marketing leaders and support. And I asked each of them: What is the one thing our product team does well, and one thing we should improve? your products. really love?—?your

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. Your Customers Don’t Want Your Product Of course, eventually, they do. The truth is quite different. And that was the problem. Here we go.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. Navigating all of it could be challenging, so here is a simple tool that will help you find your way. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I met tons of incredible people, some of whom went on to create major products and found unicorn companies. made life long friends formed fundamental aspects of my world view Because of the recent AI boom, I’ve been meeting a lot of folks who are new to SF. I learned an incredible amount. They love talking about that.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If this isn’t challenging enough, what your customers want and need varies based on their profile and maturity with your product. In reaction, my parents told me about the new car wash service that they started using. Whenever I feel my car is too dirty, I find an occasion when I anyway need to be in the car. Likely not.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2024

Among other benefits, they help you: Collect customer feedback with minimal effort : Imagine a quick, bite-sized snack instead of a full-course meal. Get more specific feedback for each touchpoint : Instead of a broad overview, micro surveys can zoom in on specific interactions (touchpoints) customers have with your product or service.

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Mixpanel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Xu is an engineer-turned-product manager with experience at big tech companies like Google and Stripe. Read on for our conversation with Xu about finding product-market fit when you’re the ideal user, growing a following vs. growing an app, and what the future of social media looks like.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. PMs and VPs of Product), Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!) For more from Sean, follow him on LinkedIn.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

There are many ingredients needed in order for your product to succeed. Not all of them are related to your product, or even to your product’s domain. As a product leadership academy, we have many presentations. Your customers’ ecosystem impacts your product’s success more than you think. Here is why.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2019

We’ve all signed up for a product only to realize a few months later that it didn’t quite fit our needs. But to actually cancel, you have to find a phone number, wait on hold, give your membership number and finally pay an exit fee before you can put an end to your ill-conceived new year’s resolution.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2023

Traditional marketing and sales tactics with long lead times, heavy financial investment, and a demanding need for human resources could be more efficient. Users will be vocal about the products they do, don’t like using, and don’t settle for less than the very best. Here when product-led growth comes into play.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? If you want to find out the details, read on. TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. How can you build one?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Creating buzz with consumers or even having a product go viral is quite easy in a B2C (business-to-consumer) environment. However, getting the attention of your target customers with B2B marketing strategies is a lot harder. B2B marketing targets businesses and organizations rather than individual consumers.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While there is no one-size-fits-all solution to effective OKRs, best practices, and frameworks can help your organization balance big bets versus short-term wins. And the stakes are high when it comes to creating OKRs. But first, let’s take a step back and define objectives and key results. That’s easy, right?! Let’s break this down further.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2023

While product growth may seem as simple as “attract customers to your Software-as-a-Service solution” there are countless SaaS challenges and customer issues that you’ll need to overcome along the way. New SaaS apps, tools, and products are constantly being released, which makes it harder for a SaaS business to stand out.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Whether you’re looking to train your team to engage customers or make a career leap as a customer success manager (CSM), different types of customer success courses and certifications are the closest to the formal education you can get. How to get a job in customer success course, by Practical CSM. Improving the product experience.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth. Here I’ll discuss how.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2023

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. One of the most useful tips there is that in most cases it is much quicker to talk the other person through their needs and find a solution than to force them to accept yours. But are you negotiating the right things? Here’s how. That’s the scary part.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Defining the right product metrics is a common challenge for product leaders. With the kids and all, I always find the time to read the weekend newspaper. Often, you can find a small pile of newspapers by my bedside since it takes me a while to finish everything. I have a very specific order in which I read it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

In this article, I’m going to give my take on data products and why they’re so important in creating value for companies. Data Products, everywhere In your everyday life, you’re interacting with data products all of the time, or shall I say they’re interacting with you. that’s a data product right there, the recommender.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What is product parity? How can product managers avoid building parity products? We talk about product parity or brand parity when a brand’s product offers exactly the same functionality as competing products. Product parity also limits your marketing and branding strategies.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

One technique that I teach in my product courses/workshops is something I call “count the digits.”  The basic idea is to spend no more than five minutes per item by finding 2 or 3 numbers that we can multiply… and get a rough order-of-magnitude idea of impact.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

Great product managers never stop learning. That's why we scoured our bookshelves to make a list of the best product management books we could find. Fortunately, there is a cornucopia of stellar books perfect for product managers who want to learn everything from user-centric design principles to advancing their career.

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The Review by First Round

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Tara started Rupa Health in early 2018, but the product vision today looks very different from what she first built. As she’ll talk about over the course of today’s interview, she went through plenty of sometimes painful pivots on the path to finding product/market fit for Rupa.

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