The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Here we provide a brief overview of the best app developers for startups for 2021. From day one, most startups are concerned with the question “How to find the best technology partner.” To make things easier for you, we have compiled a list of the best app development companies with immense expertise in working with startups.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When I asked them their biggest learning on the trip so far, they said- We have to learn how to pitch our startup in the “American” way More self promotional, emphasizing the future not the past, talking about what it could be not what it is, playing up even small bits of proof points, etc. TLDR; there’s pitch mode and dinner party mode.

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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?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2023

As someone who’s worked at dozens of technology organizations from early stage-startup to major corporate tech companies, I can personally attest to the difficulties these types of products bring to the day-to-day work of an end-user. Ensure that end-user usability testing, research, and feedback are part of the product life cycle.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2020

Most of us in the startup community have embraced the principles of Lean product development and MVPs. Despite this, most startups still flatline or fail after their MVP has been released. Startups are complex, so there’s many factors at play. This is precisely why growth curves for most startups are flat forever.

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

Are you ready to take your product from concept to triumph through effective beta testing? The journey from idea to success hinges on the crucial stage of beta testing. But for startups, the challenge of finding 100 willing beta users can feel like an insurmountable obstacle. Let’s dive in and discover the path to success!

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

In this episode of Inside Intercom, we caught up with Hubert for a chat about starting small, committing to a product strategy that helps you reach your long-term goals and making sure everyone’s on the same page. Use it to make better product decisions. I started as a product manager and ended up as the VP of product. ” So we did that.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

A couple of things we’re hearing people talk about a lot this week are how they’re adjusting to working in a different way, and how they are adjusting their strategies to deal with the current situation. The Black Mirror Test. The Black Mirror Test. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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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. Upsell Strategy (upgrade, expand, replace) b. Win-Loss Analysis 2. User Retention c.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. Why are product positioning strategies important?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot through both successes and failures, and these are my top 5 strategies in scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in revenue: Expand your market. Then apply Lean Startup Principles to hiring by putting people in the role. It turns out there is a lot more work to do. How do you keep growing?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? The EDC is an autonomous body that promotes the cultivation of startups and entrepreneurial ideas. During my time in the EDC, I participated in startup brainstorming sessions. What is a Go-to-Market Strategy?

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

Why a go-to-market strategy plays an integral of your SaaS product success? This is where the GTM strategy comes in. In this blog post, you’ll learn everything about go-to-market strategies. Successful product launches stand on the back of an effective GTM strategy. What is a go-to-market (GTM) strategy?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2022

Pair that with in-app communication and you’ve got a pretty good marketing strategy. We’re going to teach you how to craft a marketing strategy made for the enterprise sales cycle so you can adapt your sales process. When your marketing strategy focuses on outbound, it’s not so clear.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. What is a product strategy? Discovery and Experimentation as Part of Product Strategy 5.Where Where to start – Product Discovery vs Product Strategy How Userpilot Helps. What is a product strategy?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2023

It is a continuous process that involves identifying customer needs, designing and developing products, and testing and refining them until they meet the desired outcome. According to Eric Ries, the author of “The Lean Startup,” “Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.”

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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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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation. Yet, it’s a double-edged sword.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this Path to PM blog post, Sanaz and I discuss applying lean startup principles to media products. In my role, I met with management teams of small and large companies and learned about their growth and monetization strategies, revenue models and technology platforms. This is the reason most startups fail.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2019

This is Part 3/18 in the series “How to Build an Innovative New Product or Company” on the topic of over-investing in the “4 Steps to Develop a Strategy” I was introduced to a medical device company recently. The product is a piece of paper that has six testing areas on it, each of which can test for something different.

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Generation Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A/B testing is a crucial element in any startup foundation. Six months later an engineer saw the project, and noticing the low cost of writing the code for it, decided to do a bit of A/B testing. Thanks to the test, Microsoft went on to earn massive returns. This is just one success story from A/B testing.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 18, 2020

She joins us to chat about evidence-based product strategy, continuous discovery & delivery, and empowered teams. She joins us to chat about evidence-based product strategy, continuous discovery & delivery, and empowered teams. Evidence-based product strategy. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, [.].

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 4, 2018

Many of the biggest implosions in recent history – especially ecommerce – have been due to startups getting addicted to paid marketing while fooling themselves on Customer Acqusition Costs. So for those of you who are thinking about going all-in on paid marketing, I challenge you to go deeper on that strategy.

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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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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. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Who is LUCA Theory?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

UX research emerges as a pivotal factor in crafting user-centered designs and strategies. Conducted by agencies or in-house teams, it involves understanding user behaviors, needs, and motivations through various methods like interviews, surveys, and usability testing. Why Is UX Research Important?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Value Based Pricing for SaaS Startup We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.– your startup won’t last long without monetization. Meanwhile, an effective pricing strategy can make or break your business. things you must consider when coming up with a pricing strategy for your SaaS.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 6, 2017

I recently did a video interview on the topic of how your growth strategy changes from being a small startup versus becoming a larger company. New startups have to focus on underrated acquisition channels for early growth efforts [0:00]. Any small channels that allow interaction with the audience, will allow you to do testing.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A growth marketer helps collect and analyze data , build and run in-app experiences, and implement strategies to drive growth. Growth marketing is more than just marketing a product; it’s a dynamic marketing strategy enabling businesses to flourish by fostering customer loyalty. Main steps of the growth process.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2021

And from there, I joined a startup, and that was the next inflection point in my career. Being in a startup, you get to wear multiple hats, and your job or the scope of your role is not really what your title is. In many startups, you get lots of opportunities to try out new things, and positions change all the time.

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