The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2025

Insights from April Dunford’s Business of Software AMA In an era where “AI-powered” has become the default label for tech products, positioning your company clearly and effectively is more challenging than ever. Here’s what every founder needs to know to navigate the new terrain of positioning in the age of AI.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 20, 2025

Here’s how the two approaches differ: Aspect Traditional MBOs OKRs Compensation Link Directly tied to bonuses Deliberately separated from compensation Goal Structure Combined goals and metrics Separated objectives from measurable results Review Cycle Usually annual More frequent (e.g.,

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Today we are talking about how Lean Startup can be used at large organizations. He has helped many large companies implement innovation practices including Lean Startup and has written the book on the topic, titled Lean Startup in Large Organizations. 1:13] What are the key principles of Lean Startup?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2018

We abstractly know that feedback is supposed to be a positive thing, but in reality our egos are fragile. Instead of submitting your work for review, afraid of the amount of feedback you’re going to get, embrace the process and seek out the opinions of those who will give you the most feedback from day one.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

April Dunford’s mtpcon Digital 2020 keynote on positioning was so good that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to dig deeper into the topic with her. The post Obviously Awesome: Positioning Your Product – April Dunford on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Building a story brand.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Written by Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro As a UI/UX designer or a startup founder, youre likely acutely aware of the countless challenges that come with this task. Satisfaction leads to positive reviews, recommendations, and increased user retention. Gradually, they will digitize and simplify the educational process.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As Kristen says: She predicts that this strategy of letting the product guide the sales process is the future of tech: “I think that’s where a lot of the future of sales and tech in general is going to go to some extent, which is to really let the product guide the people. Crowning the customer.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Innovation & technology: B est-of-breed is the way to outperform competitors. In other words, technology is the backbone of innovation. A larger ecosystem of these big players sooner or later becomes a threat for the product-led-growth startups. Hence, innovation is an important factor to drive product-led growth.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the past few years, we’ve seen the “ great flattening ” of tech: rising expectations of fewer ICs to own larger swaths of the product and manage multiple teams while staying hands-on. Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Without a strong and consistent digital brand, financial institutions risk being overshadowed by nimble Fintech startups or tech giants like Apple and Google that excel in user experience. Platforms evolve, user preferences shift, and new technologies emerge. As of 2024, Cash App reports 57 million users and $14.7

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Fortunately, technology has been rapidly advancing and there are tools available that make this a solvable problem. evaluating a set of text to identify the writer’s attitude toward a topic as being positive, neutral, or negative. Gone are the days where your technology team is going to need 12 months to build a platform for NLP.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2023

Even the most tech-savvy hospitals aren’t using AI in their daily workflows. A recent review of deep learning applications using electronic health records identified the need to focus on implementation and automation to have a direct clinical impact. Thank you for reading! Please follow me on Medium , LinkedIn , or Twitter.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This is a problem I see not just with tech entrepreneurs but also on a regular basis with product managers at the B2B companies we work with at SiriusDecisions. Lean startup practitioners document these sorts of strategic hypotheses in a lean canvas. I believe that user feedback is an essential addition to planned enhancements.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s been applying for positions for months and has found it nearly impossible to get an interview. More than many other roles, PM positions tend to have stringent qualifications for desired applicants. Work at a startup.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

In the next five years, around 48% are interested in employing AR and other metaverse technology to shop. With the advancement of technology, we are beginning to realize the promise of augmented reality apps. At this moment, we can only imagine what this technology will look like once we’ve maximized its potential. Check it out.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Unfortunately, there were none.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Their team was previously fully in-person, and their customers range from younger to older, from digitally mature to less tech-savvy people, who were difficult to reach with remote research methods. Due to their international scope, they have some experience researching online, but before the pandemic, they too were predominantly in-person.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact. One name kept coming up: Leo Bosuener.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2019

Following a talk at ProductTank Bristol, he joined us to chat about the advice he gives both to aspiring product managers and to those angling for leadership positions. Links mentioned in this episode: Six leadership styles, from the Harvard Business Review. Quote of the episode. There’s a good summary at [link]. Your Hosts.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2021

It’s an environment where technology can learn to think like a human, make the best decisions, and predict the most likely future. NLP combines two other technologies: natural language understanding (NLU) and natural language generation (NLG). However, NLP technology opens up new opportunities for customer service enhancement.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 27, 2018

The quality of our alarms and on call procedures were inconsistent across teams and we were using ad hoc review processes for new and existing alarms. They defined all our alarms in code using a Terraform module, and started using peer review for every change. The number of out-of-hours pages has dropped to less than 10 a month.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this episode, we sat down with Rebecca to talk about her mission to make mental health care scalable and accessible for all, and how the pandemic and technology are radically changing the way we think about mental health care. Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. Liam: For sure. Rebecca: Yeah.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach. After a very promising product design phase, we sadly went from a very agile process to the bank’s traditional default waterfall technical delivery methodology.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. The most successful businesses realize this and work hard to continually protect their strategic position. Counter-positioning. Yet they were extremely slow to do so.

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