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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers.

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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor. This led her to explore whether others faced similar challenges.

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Customer Research 101: The Complete Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

According to Harvard Business Review, 80% of new products fail, primarily because companies fail to conduct proper customer research. The solution seems obvious: improve your customer research process. What is customer research in SaaS? Does customer research help build better products?

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How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)

Lenny Rachitsky

Their model involves solving one customer’s (very big and valuable) problem, then abstracting that solution into a product you can sell to everyone else. Looking for signs like athletic achievements or chess playing can predict work ethic and problem-solving abilities better than traditional credentials.

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Iterate Your Way to a Top Analytics Product Experience

Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43

Tune in to this webinar to hear how Mark43 Product Manager Richard Cheng went about researching, prototyping, and iterating to deliver analytics and business intelligence tools to police departments, emergency call centers, and other public safety agencies, bringing Mark43 users a positive and effective product experience.

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How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report

DevelopmentCorporate

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research. Only 17% experienced reductions.

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Create a User Persona: Your Blueprint for Product Growth [+ Template]

Userpilot

For SaaS, it must be framed in the context of how they use your product and their jobs-to-be-done. Product design teams and UX researchers can personalize in-app guides and UI to solve persona-specific problems. Series B, 120-person SaaS on AWS”). Below, I’ll break down each data collection method.