Mind the Product

JULY 17, 2018

In 2009, I’d already had 15-year career in the tech industry, mainly as a product manager at software companies like Microsoft and Adobe. But that year, I decided to take the plunge into physical products, launching KOR Water with my partner Eric Barnes. Can you make it just as cool and differentiated as your product?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

If an alleged strong Product culture is not enough to separate the prosperous from the feeble in times of hardship, than what is it good for? The limit of Product Product as a whole was built on top of two solid foundations: Agile and Lean. Product led companies can. Is the limitation of Product efficacy scale itself?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2018

The minimum viable product (MVP) is the smallest thing you can do or make to create validated learning, says Josh. It caught on among other users, and in 2009 Twitter added official support to the hashtag. Twitter saw its users doing this value-creating behavior, and so built it into its product. The Project.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Finding the right software development company for a long-term partnership is usually challenging and requires a lot of research. Since its establishment in 2014, the company has been delivering full-stack product development services for businesses globally. Sidebench Another leading app development company for startups is Sidebench.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

I joined as a junior product manager and focused on their local marketplaces and e-commerce businesses. million round of venture funding from First Round Capital and others, scaled the team, got somewhat of product/market fit, but ended up selling early to TaskRabbit. Adam: Did Thumbtack also reach product/market fit faster?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). The list goes on and on – showing once again that our product community is made up of people who push themselves, are curious, and have a learning mindset. creating a community of practice for their organisation. getting a promotion. finding a new job.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Collaborating on digital product design with engineers or managers follows the same principles as the prisoners dilemmaboth of you can either cooperate or defect. For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Of course, the latter are rarely product designers.

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UX Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Across my years working in Digital Design and Product Design fields, one thing I’ve consistently noticed, is how certain topics, not matter the context in which we all live in (more on this tidbit later), we always go back to the same discussions. Full Stack Product Designers.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? I was tired of building products that no one used. When I had the chance to try the MVP approach on a new product, I jumped on it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. It was really about testing our ideal customer profile religiously, figuring out what category would pick up the fastest, and who the early adopters were. It was about testing our ideal customer profile religiously.

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UX Studio

MAY 20, 2019

In this article, I will introduce some basic psychological principles about human attention, and give guidelines for creating usable and delightful products. This means we cannot reliably predict our own or even our users’ behavior per se, not even as UX researchers. You have to think about the context your product will be used in.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For example (books have affiliate Amazon links): Takeuchi and Nonaka published The New New Product Development Game in HBR in 1986. Preston Smith and Don Reinertsen published Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools in 1998. From about 2003-2009, Scrum worked for many of my clients. Womack and Daniel T.

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Indicative

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Focused on democratizing access to data-driven decision making, Customer Analytics tools empower non-technical users (like marketing and product teams) to make sense of all the data. A/B testing – Test product and marketing changes with real customers. That’s where Customer Analytics comes in. Common features.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2019

A possible explanation is that some people do a round of testing before the end of their work day. That calls for a question: are the individuals in product teams more flexible these days? In our particular sample about 2/3 of bugs are reported on pre-production environments (local and staging). There is also a local spike at 5.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Seven Tips for Building A Business in A Recession From Someone Who Did Exactly That in 2008 Even amid chaos, there’s a chance for opportunity Ashish Toshniwal, CEO and Co-founder at YML Calm seas never made a great sailor, and in March 2009, I unintentionally broached into a tsunami. Flashback to 2009. Turns out, it was. Dive deep?—?deeper

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Is a SaaS product growth strategy essential to a modern business’s survival? What SaaS product growth strategies can you implement to get there? That's exactly what we'll cover in this article: what is a SaaS product growth strategy and what are the main growth strategy types. What is a SaaS product growth strategy?

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Neil Rahilly VP of Product and Design, Mixpanel Neil Rahilly is the VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel. He was the Director of Product at Slack, focused on growth in the freemium, self-service business. ‘ perspective.

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Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Agile Testing Days is an annual European conference for and by international professionals involved in the agile world. Date: Thursday, Nov 7th.

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Centercode

MARCH 27, 2019

Still, they’re up against the same challenges that other cloud-based and IoT products face. The company is a long-time believer in the value of both dogfooding and beta feedback initiatives. According to Google’s own testing blog , they make heavy use of their own products before public release to work out instability issues.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

And that can leave product managers feeling a little bit like visitors to this town in Ireland. All successful product managers are concerned about retention. So picking the best user retention tools and software depends on a lot of factors specific to your business and your product. But look: they’re all great products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Every seasoned product professional knows that success only comes after a series of failures. When Products Fail Every PMs worst nightmare! But to have an entire product go down the drain…the thought is cold-sweat inducing. Let’s look at 3 of some of the biggest flops in product history: 1. What went wrong?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

? ?. If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Test your assumptions, always. Focus on outcomes over output. I hit a critical point about 10 years into my career.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2021

Have you ever used a product that you just couldn’t put down? Think of digital products. Making your first encounter with a product fun encourages you to return as well. SaaS products took note – and started using the same principles to encourage their users to adopt their tools. Ok, smartphones don’t count.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 28, 2020

Sometimes it’s crystal clear that the products we deliver to customers today won’t be what they want in the long run, or even a year from now. We’ll examine how Disney used the data available to them to make strategic bets that transformed their products and company, and how you can do the same. Bob Iger, CEO, Disney.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Collaborating with Product Management.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. Collaborating with Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2020

To help you make a better-informed decision about your future technology partner, we’ve conducted market and industry research in order to define the best cross-platform app development companies. They help businesses enter the markets with prominent MVPs (minimum viable products) that turn into very successful projects later.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

And that can leave product managers feeling a little bit like visitors to this town in Ireland. All successful product managers are concerned about retention. So picking the best user retention tools depends on a lot of factors specific to your business and your product. But look: they’re all great products.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2020

In our mission to make you the best possible Product Manager, we’re taking you through some of the most fundamental, but often most misunderstood and overlooked aspects of the product world. Today’s topic; What Is Product Design? Product design really is the unsung hero of the product world. A product designer.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

A digital product agency in San Francisco. As a digital product agency, it strives to help clients with branding, positioning, web and app development, copywriting, and information architecture. . If you look for a full-stack app designing company that can design, develop, and promote your product, you might consider Ramotion. .

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Until real users get their hands on your product, you can never be 100% sure it works. That’s why product managers leverage beta testing. It’s such an incredibly important and useful tool in the product development process. Internal tests can’t replicate what happens in the real world. A worthy roadmap milestone.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Back in 2009, we asked ourselves a question many early stage companies do when they’re trying to figure out what to charge for something that didn’t exist a few hours prior: “What’s an easy-to-measure metric that correlates with our cost?” We also don’t want something that deters our customers from getting the most out of our product.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A decade ago Steve Blank authored the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win to share with the world his philosophy for building winning products: customer development. And the biases that one could expect from A/B testing techniques and it's limitations are well understood.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Super Rewards is definitely Offerpal's fiercest competitor, launching their product publicly in December 2007. Several of these CPA ad networks realized that they themselves could get into the business of providing a managed offer product. PayBuyPartner is one such product brought to you by CPA Storm.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Here are some of the biggest Product moments of the decade, and a quick look at what’s coming for us in the future… What Happened to Product in the 2010s We thought about PCs differently The first on the list takes us all the way back to the beginning. You could say that about every decade, but this one feels particularly futuristic!

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Nulab

JULY 27, 2022

It can be a new product, a new service, a new process, or a new way of marketing. In 2009, two friends founded a company called Airbnb with the aim of providing an alternative to traditional hotel accommodations. Disruptive innovation is about creating a new product or service that shakes up the industry. What is innovation?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

How do you put a box around a product that defies categorization? I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was.

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