Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. Melissa broke silence over the excessive focus on delivery in product teams.

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

To understand how this works, let’s review a Leo Web Alert designed to track Amazon’s recent product launches: Leo Web Alerts: A powerful and intuitive search and tracking interface. In our example, we use a Company and Strategic Move Leo Concept to track all information about Amazon’s product launches.

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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. After graduating in 2013, she moved to London, U.K.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

To understand how this works, let’s review an AI Feed designed to track Amazon’s recent product launches: AI Feeds: A powerful and intuitive search and tracking interface Creating a (Feedly) AI Feed is a three-step process: Use AI Models to define the information you want to gather.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? Similarly, your vision and strategy help with this too. Nothing stays static for long in product.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

We were recently inspired by the folks at Deel, a startup focused on helping global businesses hire global talent. Unlike conventional SaaS products who charge a flat monthly fee or a fee based on transactions, Deel instead chargers customers upon completion of contracts. Sign up for the weekly Product Briefing.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Industry veterans and startups quickly try to stand out in an already clustered SaaS market. It takes more than just keeping up with the competition on product comparison checklists to stay relevant. Effective product teams position their solutions as market leaders. As markets mature, the competitive landscape gets crowded.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The more product-led the company, the more post-signup activities the product marketer will do. The pre-signup activities include planning product launches, writing product and feature pages, writing help docs, FAQs, sales/cs enablement assets, and creating bottom-of-the-funnel educational content.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

They blend strategy and creativity in their user-friendly designs. San Francisco, CA $100 – $149 / hr Digital Design, Integrated Marketing, Brand Strategy, User Research, Web Development, Interaction Design Niftic Agency Niftic is a smaller full-service design agency working with brands all over the world.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? The question for product managers particularly, is one of feature depth vs breadth. A few things done well.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Product Management Tools. Read more about product design management in our free e-book: Product Managers’ Guide to UX Design. Product roadmaps. The most essential product management tools, product roadmaps help visualize the entire product development process from sketch to release.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In particular, he is interested in successful launch strategies and growth hacking visibility across the key marketing platforms. Then, they are upvoted and commented on; this helps everyone find out about features or products they would not have heard abut otherwise. Check out her Medium profile ! Check out his Twitter too!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model. After coming up with a seemingly brilliant idea, a group of developers and designers gather to create a new product. However, when novelty fever declines, only 10–15% of the users are left and the product hasn’t made its sales target.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

One of the most impactful things a product leader can do to help their team succeed is to point everyone in the same direction—to channel all of the team’s energy, focus, and resources towards an aligned outcome. And strategy is just a plan to achieve your company’s mission. A product leader’s job is to unwrap the burrito.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

However, it is important to note that the market for these products is still unproven. The right product strategy is necessary to make the smart glass product a success. However, the product roadmap continues to remain hazy. And yes, it will probably use Google’s OKR strategy ! Apple Glass.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 12, 2021

They are a unique and fun team of professionals with expertise in digital strategy, website and eCommerce design , and creating brand identity. . They follow a three-step process when creating their solutions: Firstly, they focus on strategy by carrying out competitive research, user research, or growth roadmapping.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product launch timelines visually represent the project plan to successfully release new products. The goal of the timeline is to ensure a successful product launch that improves the brand image, expands the customer base, generates buzz, and ultimately leads to revenue growth. Role of the product launch timeline.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this webinar, Robi Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder, Apptentive and Ben Johnson, VP Mobile Strategy, Rightpoint will cover the essentials to have in place both pre- and post-launch in order to provide the best customer experience possible. Ben Johnson: This is something to think about during your product launches.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

2016 Spring Portfolio Marketing and Product Management Strategies Best Practices. Our last SiriusDecisions Product Management Webcast Series was such a hit that we’re doing it again. My colleagues and I will cover topics like personas, thought leadership, roadmaps and product launch. Interested?

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

2016 Spring Portfolio Marketing and Product Management Strategies Best Practices. Our last SiriusDecisions Product Management Webcast Series was such a hit that we’re doing it again. My colleagues and I will cover topics like personas, thought leadership, roadmaps and product launch. Interested?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

These kinds of questions evaluate your ability to think and work through technical dependencies, product context, execution strategy, and impact on a team. Watch a Startup founder answer this question here. Together, PMs and TPMs work to keep the shipping of products on track. Watch a sample answer to this question here.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Without a solid strategy in place to promote your new product and spread the word, no one is going to listen. That’s where creating a product launch plan comes in. A product launch plan is a strategy that outlines your specific goals for a new release and how to promote it in your market.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Topics: Building Winning Products at Glossier and Goop, Conducting Meaningful Customer Interviews to Understand the Needs of Your End Users, Developing a Product Strategy that Made Investing Accessible to Women, Six Tactics to Improve the World While Growing Your Product, and much more!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I had exposure to Product Management previously, but it was in that final role that I decided I wanted to move into Product Management. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Escaping the Build Trap promotes outcome-driven product management to deliver real value to customers. Inspired offers valuable lessons and strategies for building successful products. The Lean Product Playbook is a comprehensive guide to lean product development. What you’ll learn? Where to buy it?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Perfect your roadmapping skills by learning from the examples below!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. While the initial brainstorming and launch are celebrated as proof of the genius’ of individual PMs, charting your course should also be considered one of the genuinely epic moments. That said, a Product Roadmap is a good tool to actually anticipate mistakes.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

How to Create a Product Content Strategy Why UX content writers are the unsung heroes of the modern product team and what you can do about it I used a product the other day and it referred to me as the ‘system administrator’. What’s the business strategy and what’s the product strategy?

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Most companies fail in execution, not strategy. Defining strategy the right way can close the gap. Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast.” In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

But alas, as startups scale, as more people join and those people turn into teams, which then turn into teams of teams and into orgs, you’re adding a lot of complexity to the mix. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: As a startup grows, things like more teams, processes, and cross-collaboration are unavoidable.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. Remember, choosing the right product strategy will go a long way in making sure that the entire product life cycle proceeds flawlessly. Learn the top skills of product management. Product Strategy Frameworks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I had exposure to Product Management previously, but it was in that final role that I decided I wanted to move into Product Management. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Product marketing teams can help with product adoption , user retention , and customer expansion by flattening the learning curve and helping customers understand and experience the value of the product. Consider your level of funding and chosen marketing strategy to determine the ideal time to build a team.

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