Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m I’m ignoring deep tech and foundational AI research companies, for the sake of this conversation). Ironically, this is where great products become to dominate. I want free users!

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

They recognized that there were several unsolved problems related to high hotel prices and a lack of easy ways for people to host travelers. This allowed them to gather further data and feedback to inform their decision-making as they developed their product. Then they went on to test out their hypothesis.

User Testing

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

affordable and unique travel experiences for guests, and great income for hosts. To launch a city, we’d travel there and hold a meetup. product, marketing, engineering, data science, design, content, and finance. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market.

User Testing

Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

So a prospect might agree that “if your tech support chatbot will really cut our live support calls by 25%, I’ll buy it,” but there’s probably a pilot production phase where we have to demonstrate effectiveness. And enterprise tech companies hire high-powered sales teams. Interview both users and buyers.

Enterprise

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

Consulting

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

Consulting

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Some of my sharing might be more tailored to B2B settings but the general lessons should still apply to most product manager jobs. 5 Things To Know Before Getting Started If I could travel back in time, here are five things I would tell myself. Finally, make sure to focus on the highest value product initiatives.

Startups

Under 10 Consulting

MAY 10, 2020

Common job titles and responsibilities for successful product management and marketing teams. The most successful teams are comprised of three roles: a strategic product manager, one or more technical product owners, and a market-facing product marketing manager. Knowledgeable in technology.

Reporting Tools

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.

Reporting Tools

Userpilot

JULY 6, 2023

For instance, let’s take a look at these G2 reviews: “The ability to analyze needs to be improved, especially when trying to compare different variables among different surveys. We know it’s perfect for customer success and product marketing because we built it for it. Very easy to use due to its simplicity. Easy to use.

Data Visualization

Gainsight

JUNE 23, 2020

I felt it in my gut that once big tech companies announced their cancellation, that us little guys would soon have to face the unknown reality and follow suit. That is what brought over 5,500 customer success and product managers to travel to the Bay Area, so we had to think big and change the game.

Events

Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

It would focus on news across the tech industry, and key business insights from his own personal experience and interviews with other professionals-all told with a witty editorial perspective. This is what they do: They utilize beta testers in their community by convincing 3-4 users to use the software and review it.

Research Software

Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

The most Affordable Social Media Scheduling Tool for Marketing Agencies. Product market positioning in a sense defines your core benefit and competitive edge for a particular market sector. Takeaway: Don’t wait with choosing your product market positioning – nobody will do it for you. Image Source.

Feedback Software

Under 10 Consulting

MARCH 7, 2019

Common job titles and responsibilities for successful product management and marketing teams. The most successful teams are comprised of three roles: a strategic product manager, one or more technical product owners, and a market-facing product marketing manager. Knowledgeable in technology.

Reporting Tools

ProductPlan

MAY 4, 2020

Set up guidelines, tech, and communication expectations with your team. Before I left, as a team, we reviewed the best ways to work together on collaborative projects and Slack communication best practices. Before leaving for my travels, I outlined a lot of deadlines to keep myself accountable. It can be an isolating feeling.

Technical Review

People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

I feel limited in my growth as there is not upward opportunity as a Senior Product Manager. How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? The principles of identifying and forming your own product community remain the same.

User Testing

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the book, I describe stage-by-stage how to successfully start and scale the central forces that power tech’s most successful companies — network effects. Network effects emerge when products, like marketplaces, social apps, B2B collaboration tools, and so on, get more useful the more users that are on them.In

Customer Experience

The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

If you’re looking to move forward from a product manager position, you need to have a formal degree. At times, tech companies that require a master’s degree also accept people who are in the process of completing their master’s program. The Director of Product job responsibilities is a mix of these three primary functions.

User Testing

BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Design products that customers want and come up with a rock-solid value proposition by focusing on their objectives, pains and gains. With around 90% of tech startup failure being due to a lack of product-market fit , the stakes are high when it comes to understanding your customer.

User Testing

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

affordable and unique travel experiences for guests, and great income for hosts. To launch a city, we’d travel there and hold a meetup. product, marketing, engineering, data science, design, content, and finance. Converting travelers to hosts definitely moved the needle when we launched a new market.

User Testing

BrainMates

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Design products that customers want and come up with a rock-solid value proposition by focusing on their objectives, pains and gains. With around 90% of tech startup failure being due to a lack of product-market fit , the stakes are high when it comes to understanding your customer.

User Testing

Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. Whether we like not, digital products deliver value through features. Sales If you’ve ever sat in on a sales meeting with a client, you’ll know what happens in a typical product demo. Marketing It’s a similar story for product marketing.

Feedback Software

Usersnap

JULY 28, 2022

The result is that your software or SaaS company channels the results into increased product-market fit through customer-led growth. Usersnap can add a dedicated feedback button to your website or app, making it easy for customers to offer reviews and suggestions. Understanding customer preferences with skip logic.

Product Research

Usersnap

JULY 27, 2022

The result is that your software or SaaS company channels the results into increased product-market fit through customer-led growth. Usersnap can add a dedicated feedback button to your website or app, making it easy for customers to offer reviews and suggestions. Understanding customer preferences with skip logic.

Product Research

Product Solving

JULY 29, 2020

Having a clear understanding of the Institutional Imperative and management by proxy helps leaders in an organization see their blind spots and avoid traveling along the default path -- what all leaders would do if not proactively minimizing the effects of the imperative. Combat this imperative by looking at more than just product metrics.

Customer Experience

Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

Social media management platform Buffer relies on a strong partnership between product and marketing to deliver the best experience to its users. Simon Heaton, Director of Growth and Product Marketing, acknowledges that removing silos takes some effort. “We Adding more people to the marketing team won’t be enough.

Analytic Tools

Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

Social media management platform Buffer relies on a strong partnership between product and marketing to deliver the best experience to its users. Simon Heaton, Director of Growth and Product Marketing, acknowledges that removing silos takes some effort. “We Buffer leans into this tactic. “A

Analytic Tools

Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

Social media management platform Buffer relies on a strong partnership between product and marketing to deliver the best experience to its users. Simon Heaton, Director of Growth and Product Marketing, acknowledges that removing silos takes some effort. “We Adding more people to the marketing team won’t be enough.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Email isn’t dead, but superior tools are emerging , like groups that allow one company to share documents with another with time to review – or inter-company chat where a lot of people can look at an issue simultaneously and discuss it in real time. Julien: It’s important to find your niche and to find product market fit.

Feedback Software

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

While there were people thinking about user acquisition and ad tech, and some early consumer teams (like Eric Ries’s IMVU) thinking about cohort curves to mention retention, it hadn’t been centralized into a team that could execute against it. On the app store screen – and this is a real example – there’s reviews.

Onboarding KPIs

Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Sonal: I love that you said that because one of the complaints I’ve heard about “growth hacking” is that it’s just marketing by a different name, and what I’m really hearing you guys say is that there’s a systemic point of view, there’s rigor to it, there’s stages, there’s a program you build out.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

9:15 Jason Cohen: Building your Permanent Defensible Strategy Slides from Jason Cohen’s Talk A glass of water at room temperature has 7 septillion molecules Each molecule is moving at twice the speed of sound If aligned, the water would shoot off at that speed (like a watersaw) In tech support, most tickets are produced by small clients, but (..)

Research Software

People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

Technological Advancements: The consumerization of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) can bring innovation to industries ranging from education to healthcare to newsletter writing. For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership.

Artificial Inteligence

Gainsight

APRIL 29, 2019

Very early on, I really focused on being friends with the developers and was really good friends with the designers and tech team. I think a big thing for product management too is that it’s so affected by what stage the company is at. Early stage is so much about finding product-market fit then scaling it.

Customer Experience