The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2021

The best SaaS teams in the world are using one simple and proven process as a guiding light : customer research. Let me guide you through the brass tacks of the only, may I say, “growth hack” that can safely lead your product to success. Yet Growth Marketing and Product Growth is not where I started. reported ICP.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities? a skateboard.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy? Only selling the products is not the idea, but we preferred to combine the overall experience for the buyers.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Today’s rising borrowing costs and dipping public markets are putting a squeeze on startup fundraising. If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important. Do they need it?”.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

We’ve chosen the 20 best product management blogs that will help you keep your knowledge current and grow as a product manager. Our favorite product management blogs. Userpilot publishes well-researched and in-depth articles on all aspects of product management including product growth, retention, and adoption.

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Modus Create

JULY 2, 2021

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. Everyone cheers the first big customer, the first time you get listed on a G2 Crowd quadrant. It’s one thing to validate your idea in the market. So, why do most startups struggle to scale?

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to the market, promoting it, and selling it to customers.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become a machine learning product manager? As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Keep on reading then.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Freemium’s a great way to acquire lots of customers relatively quickly and easily, but the job of converting them to using a paid product is where the rubber meets the road. And the challenge is a lot harder in an enterprise context, where the buyer and the user aren’t necessarily one and the same person.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Breakthrough, disruptive or radical innovation are all more dramatic and often involve challenging the existing business model or introducing completely new technology. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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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. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

That's why we scoured our bookshelves to make a list of the best product management books we could find. Technology is always changing, as are customer habits. Below is a list of some of the best product management books spanning nearly two decades of thinking. First, it teaches you why most new products fail.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And yet this is exactly what you should do when you talk to investors, partners, customers, and potential employees. If in your previous work, you worked on an app that served millions of people, or for your current company, you recently launched and got your first 10,000 users, you should save these numbers.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

All product managers share a base, common skillset, which includes problem-solving, strategic thinking, and empathy for others. The different specialization categories: core product manager, growth product manager, technical product manager, platform product manager, and innovation product manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

How do you build engaging customer satisfaction surveys that get you quality feedback from your users? And what exactly are the different types of customer satisfaction surveys and how should you use them? Good surveys fit the look and feel of your product. What is a customer satisfaction survey?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Making of Product Managers by Lena Sesardic gives you eight actionable insights from 20 stories of real product managers who broke into product management from different fields.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Getting user feedback is a crucial step of the market research process. However, sentiment analysis takes things a step further to get a clearer view of your brand reputation in the eyes of multiple customer segments. Assess how your products/services are perceived in comparison to your competitors.

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TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Key takeaways: Why startups fail? It’s typically due to one or more key factors, such as a lack of preparation and planning, poor understanding of the target customer’s needs, and/or not developing a product or service that adequately solves customer pain points (which is more commonly known as not achieving “product-market fit”).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. Back to Twiggle. The API was well-defined.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. Copywriting, while often thought of as something creative and inspired, is a technical craft. It’s a product unto itself. Keyword research.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I'm a firm believer in needing to find your personal passion/skill/opportunity fit as the ultimate path to career fulfillment. Only when you find a career that you're passionate about, that you can also be skilled at, and one that has sufficient market opportunity will you achieve ultimate career satisfaction.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit. Everpix and Google Wave didn’t satisfy the market.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

Smart Glasses are the latest craze in the world of wearable tech. We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. However, it is important to note that the market for these products is still unproven. How can an oil company pivot to technology? Reliance Jio Glass.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week! How would have I researched stuff for work?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You’ll identify and address pain points quickly, leading to increased user satisfaction. Churn happens when a customer stops doing business with you. Common reasons for churn: Product-market fit failure. Bad customer experience. Poor customer service. Product pricing plan weak points.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

However, if there’s one skill that is common to all product managers, it’s continuous market monitoring and research. That’s where a market requirements document comes into play. The market requirement document is a strategic artefact that product managers usually write. You have identified market?—?marketing

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2019

An insight into Product Marketing roles, responsibilities and KPIs after interviewing dozens of Product Marketing Managers. Everyone is hiring Product Marketing Managers (“PMMs”) and there is a great demand for expertise in this space, so read on for a strategic and tactical definition of “What is Product Marketing?”.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Because it helps you understand how customers are interacting with your brand across all departments and stages of the user journey. Engagement tools are software applications that help to facilitate and encourage two-way interactions between your SaaS and its customers. Why do you track online engagement for your SaaS app?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After the overnight success of Chat OpenAI, it’s no wonder predictions related to using AI and machine learning to increase our understanding of user behavior , greater automation of low-level tasks , and GPT-4 dominate Product Managers’ and Marketers’ projections for the upcoming year.

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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. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Network economies. Counter-positioning.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. It helps the customer understand your product and how it can satisfy their needs.

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