Mind the Product

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Product managers who have never worked with founders often find their first experience a bit jarring. “f**ked” Founders at early stage startups [.]. Founders at early stage startups [.]. The post Practical Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bruce McCarthy was the president of the Boston Product Management Association, is the founder of consultancy Product Culture and co-wrote the book on roadmapping, Product Roadmaps Relaunched. The art and science of product management. Owning your product vision. Quote of the Episode.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. Raaz was one of the first five employees at Wiz, joining as the first product manager, and helped the team pivot to what may be the most intense PMF in history.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. I liked this name. I rarely thought about it after that.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

a clear and compelling vision. from ‘ Drive’ All top product leaders know the importance that vision plays in the success of a product. Sometimes the Product Vision was something spoken by a visionary leader, but unseen. Or worse of all, sometimes there was just no Product Vision at all.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2024

Join us this week on The Product Experience podcast as we sit down with Janet Bumpus, a veteran Product Advisor with a wealth of experience in both startups and large corporations, to unravel the secrets behind creating compelling product visions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Ever since I took my first step into the dynamic landscape of the startup scene in Israel, proclaimed as the ‘Startup Nation,’ my professional journey has been a continual source of learning over many years. A significant factor contributing to this is the trend of Israeli startups primarily targeting US or European markets.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Using an Innovation Stage-Gate – for product managers. 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.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Product managers who have never worked with founders often find their first experience a bit jarring. “f**ked” Founders at early stage startups [.]. Founders at early stage startups [.]. The post Practice Advice for Product Managers Working With Startup Founders appeared first on Mind the Product.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Innovation accounting for teams, managers, and strategy – for product managers. She has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and mentored several hundred startups. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:59] Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:59]

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. They are not used enough.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. What do designers expect from a product manager? Guest Post by: David Pasztor. You will also have to attend design meetings.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:56] 1:56] What put you on the path to being a product leader?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 18, 2021

How product managers can understand and solve their customers’ problems. This podcast is getting a new name to better align with its purpose of helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. . Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:16]

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

Guest Post by: Elly Lin (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alberto Simon]. When I first joined, the startup I work at had often been stuck with a backlog of products and services to create. It is much better to think ahead and innovate to create products that fit into the bigger vision of the company.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The book did not disappoint: it was a fascinating history starting from his childhood, to his early startup adventures with Zip2 and PayPal, to a deep dive into how he willed SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity into existence and ultimately to success despite the odds being continually stacked against him. Craft a compelling vision.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

Building a Frankenstein product. Here are 4 steps any startups can follow to create a great product strategy: 1. Lean toward your vision 1. Lean toward your vision There are hundreds of tactics possible. tactics lead to your vision So which one is best? The ones that follow your vision. Take care ?

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. Start with building relationships.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Figure 1: The Product Portfolio and Product Strategy Using Microsoft Office as an Example In Figure 1, the strategies of the individual products—Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—implement the Office strategy. Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Your company vision is a bet on the future. And yet, it is critical to have one and to believe in it… Continue reading on Product Coalition ». As such, it is bound to be wrong.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? What is a Product Vision?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2019

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. Aspiring enterprise product managers often tell me that collecting a robust customer sample is difficult.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2024

As a product management veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience, I’ve worked with numerous organizations looking to transform their approach to building and delivering products. These product leaders come from various roles – from CPOs and product managers to designers, engineers and sales people.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2018

The right product begins with a validated user need and a market. My guest for addressing those topics is Suzanne Abate, a seasoned product coach who has developed hundreds of digital products for clients and helped dozens of startups go from idea to execution. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:59]

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 11, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: WorkOS —Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs Attio —The powerful, flexible CRM for fast-growing startups OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster Nabeel Qureshi is an entrepreneur, writer, researcher, and visiting scholar of AI policy at the Mercatus (..)

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

This evolution is a result of the value that Product brings to an organization looking to build or scale digital products. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace. Larger product functions break down the PM function into Product Owners, Product Managers, and Project Managers.

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