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How to describe your business as an equation

Lenny Rachitsky

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: What to do if your product isn’t taking off First-principles thinking Inspiration for the year ahead Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post.

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To PLG or not to PLG

The Product Coalition

There’s lots of writing about Product Led Growth (PLG). Yet I’ve read relatively little about the key question: when should a startup even try to take the PLG route? Getting all of these right takes time and multiple iterations, and time is exactly what early-stage startups don’t have a lot of. To PLG, or not to PLG?

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B2B Customer Journey Mapping Guide For SaaS

Userpilot

Define important customer touchpoints for each user persona: Look at acquisition metrics to understand important channels Use heatmaps and website session recordings to understand the buying process Map your sales process touchpoints Define the activation point for different personas Understand the happy paths for different personas 3.

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Part One: Key Elements to Become a Healthy Product-Led Organization

Bain Public

As a product manager, it’s normal to get all kinds of new feature requests from stakeholders (these requests are usually related to pain points). Or do you try to implement each feature request, leaving you with half-baked projects with an archive of features and no finished product? Let’s dive deeper!

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Goals vs objectives and why you got it wrong

The Product Coalition

Goals and objectives are different concepts, but they work in harmony to help you achieve the desired results and maximize your team’s productivity. To make goals actionable, they need to be broken down into objectives and KPIs (key performance indicators). What’s the key performance indicator (KPI) that you’re going to track?

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What is Product Marketing? A Data-Backed Definition

The Product Coalition

An insight into Product Marketing roles, responsibilities and KPIs after interviewing dozens of Product Marketing Managers. Everyone is hiring Product Marketing Managers (“PMMs”) and there is a great demand for expertise in this space, so read on for a strategic and tactical definition of “What is Product Marketing?”.

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Building products for growth

Product Bookshelf

Product managers can learn a lot from growth marketers. Growth teams can be part of product teams and modify the product to increase growth. Although some growth tactics are specific to outbound marketing, many are directly tied to the product.