Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. I love to travel, so this was fun for me. Having a clear framework helped me develop an ok answer.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

The fox terrier travels everywhere with him – to London once a week, wherever it is, where Joe goes, he goes. Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you. To learn from mistakes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you. Get comfortable traveling to your audience rather than expecting them to come to you, whether that’s conferences related to your product or meetups organised by like-minded people. You can gain a lot for free, and you can give a lot for free.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

How can you develop the technology while making sure it really gets to the people who need it the most and has an actual impact on their lives? Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. For her, this is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Liam: For sure. It was just a way to impress people.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. Since 2013, UX studio has been diligently working on helping rising startups and established companies create impactful digital products through intelligent design solutions. . Is there anything we can help you with? Jives Media.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. and Facebook.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

work by helping startups launch with services for equity as well as small investments. That meant we had plenty of money to run experiments and invest in high-quality work, as well as in developing the next generation of creative talent. It offers this “Creative Capital” rather than venture capital in return for equity.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And I actually ended up traveling around teaching windsurfing for about eight years before becoming a designer. But then when you translate that into like competition swimming, I was really terrible, like one of the worst on the team.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. With this approach, we were able to increase the booking rate on France’s leading travel app, Liligo , by 200%. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. With this approach, we were able to increase the booking rate on France’s leading travel app, Liligo , by 200%. UX studio is a web designing company founded by Dávid Pásztor in 2013.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. Adam: How was the transition from classic marketing to working more with designers and engineers on the growth team? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

These kinds of questions evaluate your ability to think and work through technical dependencies, product context, execution strategy, and impact on a team. Cross-functional Partnership : As we mentioned, technical program managers sit at a crossroads between many different teams and departments. Let's take a look!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 12, 2018

Perhaps more commonly referred to as “Missionaries over Mercenaries” by many important product leaders, great engineering teams care that their work is helping users, and they measure their work against the benefits that they are able to provide to users. A traveler came upon three men working. Do they add to your team’s culture?

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. I could do crazy things like save my home address as ‘home’ and then plot my journey to a fresh destination, filtering by different travel options. They’re addictive. Whether we like not, digital products deliver value through features.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Like many teams I measured my productivity by output (number of tasks completed) rather than by outcomes (goals accomplished, impact achieved). What is GIST GIST is a framework for product planning I created based on the principles of Lean Startup, Growth Marketing, Behavioral Economics and more. Idea Travel to Japan ?

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

I traveled to Morocco and got stuck there after my study abroad program in Copenhagen got canceled last spring. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business. Not because I wanted to work there, but because everyone else around me did.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. I hope that’s a good teaser :).

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Radical Product

JUNE 8, 2018

Whether you’re in a non-profit, a government organization, in research, in a high tech startup, or even a freelancer, you have a product. For example, SpaceX’s vision is to create an organization that will help humanity colonize Mars and travel to the stars. Every one of us is in a product organization, whether we realize it or not.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I don’t recommend these because I’ve had bad experiences with some boutique firms. AKA “LinkedIn for startups.” every now and then you can read about a startup that just raised a big round of funding. I’ve personally got wind of a lot of under-the-radar startups this way. Who is on its current product team?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. In fact they decided to broaden the scope of the role by bringing it closer to the team and customers?—?this this was the creation of the Product Owner role.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

million bookings made every day, and every tenth person in the world employed in travel services, it’s no surprise that the value of the travel industry is estimated to hit $13.5 In the past, people used to plan their trips through travel agencies?—?but 98% of travelers carry their smartphone with them throughout their journey.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Cem is the Senior Product Manager for Duolingo’s Monetization and Growth teams. Let’s read Cem’s interesting take on things… Hannah: In short, describe your role/responsibilities as a Senior Product Manager for Duolingo’s Monetization and Growth teams. Today, we are shining the spotlight on a particular Duolingo trailblazer: Cem Kansu.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. She’s also due to deliver a workshop on how to design product teams with intention at MTP Engage Hamburg. So what about high-performing teams?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 7, 2020

But what intrigued my co-author myself each year is that somehow despite all of the efforts of the tools we build, others build, lean startup, etc it doesn’t seem like companies are getting better at innovation. So, the whole lean startup movement with Steve Blank the grandfather of the lean startup movement has become very popular.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

It can happen in any team, even in teams with a commitment to diversity. We had completed a round of interviews and I wanted her to work on my team. The candidate was a senior designer who’d managed teams in very difficult large-scale companies and managed to generate great results. So why drop culture fit?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Adapting to remote work and eschewing business travel has forced a change – the events of the last year has already fundamentally changed how and where we do business. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I was working with a bunch of different companies and teams of all different sizes. Laura: Exactly.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. Because I think it’s an area that’s lacking in literature.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no. The second half?

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s episode is all about growth, one of the most top of mind questions for entrepreneurs — of all kinds of startups, and especially for consumer ones. Andrew: And that is what startups mostly care about in the early days, because you don’t really have any active users, right? Part 1: User Acquisition. Sonal: Yesss!

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

We experience these effects everyday when we use products like Uber, where the more drivers who join, the shorter your wait times; Slack, where the more team members that join, the quicker it is to communicate with more of your colleagues; and Airbnb, where the more travelers that join, the better the listing reviews. Tipping Point.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

Fast-forward 6 years and I have worked on marketing strategy with several startups and small businesses, mostly SaaS businesses, and I have seen them make the same mistakes that had almost folded my business when I was a rookie 23 year-old. And that’s probably why so many startups fail to do their marketing positioning right.

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