The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. product-market fit under the hood. So here it is?—?product-market

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sensemaking:** Understanding and shaping the market’s signals into a crisp strategy is pivotal. Recounting my tenure as a PM for an API tailored for marketers — a demographic technically astute but not principally reliant on APIs — I grappled with the problem of simplifying arcane API terminologies.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked.

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freshtrax

APRIL 11, 2019

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , 20% of startups fail within their first year, 50% fail by their fifth year, and 70% are done by year 10. With so many pressing matters at the forefront of an entrepreneur’s mind, there are many reasons why a startup may fail. Vested is a startup helping small businesses find new employees.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The main difference between product management and project management is the focus. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Which roles exist in product management teams?

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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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Brian Balfour

JUNE 28, 2017

It’s Not Just Great Product The “go-to” answer for almost every question in startups, is “build a great product.” Building a great product is a piece of the puzzle, but it’s far from the full picture. It’s Not Just Product Market Fit The second “go-to” answer is product market fit.

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Innovatemap

AUGUST 12, 2021

The bar investors have is rising as more startups are being developed daily. There are two optimal scenarios for digital product startups seeking pre-seed and early seed funding. And these are reserved for products that look “special.”. Startup founders need to come to the table looking more polished than ever.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It communicates the market gap and opportunity, the size of the market, competitors, customer expectations and needs, and the customer’s journey to the problem. The MRD assists the product team in outlining and planning the market strategy. What is included in a market requirements document (MRD)?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. But you need a solid strategy and must pay attention to creating mind-blowing user experiences. Product growth speakers. Product marketing speaker.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. Who is LUCA Theory?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

First, figure out if you’re at product-market fit (PMF) You’re at PMF if customers are banging at your door. If your customers pull your product so hard that you can’t catch up with demand. The second biggest risk is misalignment between teams, and with your company vision. The Yin and Yang are not all black or white.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. Finally, make sure to focus on the highest value product initiatives.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. By doing so, they explicitly build their product intuition through each and every quarter's OKR loop. Marketing Programs : Marketing Strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101. I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product.

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2021

The agency serves high-growth SaaS startups and scaleups through excellence in product management, product marketing, product design, and brand. Innovatemap’s expertise in both, followed by a more national demand for the agency’s services, has fueled this strategy.

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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

In these startup-driven times, where we build products people love using, we have the obligation to provide the best customer service. As a small company or startup, you probably deal with all kind of different things when starting your business. And it will be a great inbound marketing channel for new prospects too.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Product Culture

MAY 24, 2023

In a startup, the founder is often the driver of product/marketing/sales/vision/kitchen sink. As the organization scales, it may hire a product person. Being the first product hire is tough, because of all the context locked the founder's head. Write a draft vision, strategy, goals, and priorities.

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Roy Madden

JANUARY 29, 2021

We are looking for a VP Marketing with a proven track record of driving growth in an early stage B2B SaaS environment. You will be responsible for developing and executing the Feedly marketing strategy. Grow and lead the product marketing team. Apply for this position. Helpful skills and experience. About Feedly.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising, technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. 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.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

Creating a new startup is a different challenge. My framework address five barriers to digital transformation: Lack of shared vision: A lot of companies have a generic intent to become more digital or futureproof the business, but those phrases are meaningless and generic, as opposed to a vision that is specific to the company.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Your product as the VP Product is the team of product managers, and in turn, they are responsible for the product(s). Just like any product you need to have a vision, strategy, values, roadmap, goals, and metrics for your team. Just like any startup you will start very lean and scale as you grow.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

According to Silicon Valley Bank’s 2020 Startup Outlook Report , only 41 percent of tech startups have at least one woman in an executive role and only 37 percent have at least one woman on the board of directors. We work with fantastic teams of all stripes,” said Katie Lukes, Principal, Product Strategy at Innovatemap.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. This article will dive into how each department should own its own customer retention strategy – and how it should all fit together! TL;DR- 13 Customer Retention Strategies.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Great marketing people can’t always market well either. They need your help in the form of a clear value proposition and product strategy. I mentioned here a sales deck that the company gives its salespeople, but in many startups, salespeople are expected to create their own decks, at least initially. Guess what?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Average salary: $196,172/yr. Average salary: $191,286/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup. The Product I worked on did not exist. We started from two half-baked basic Computer Vision algorithms to objects. To top it off, I had no real Product Manager experience.

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