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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." 2019: "How do I hire a Chief Product Officer? I need them yesterday."

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Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies

Intercom, Inc.

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Dan Kaplan framed marketing’s tarnished legacy this way: “Many of history’s most brilliant marketing strategies were crafted to persuade consumers to?

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Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies

Intercom, Inc.

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. Dan Kaplan framed marketing’s tarnished legacy this way: “Many of history’s most brilliant marketing strategies were crafted to persuade consumers to?

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Transitioning from Market Stall to App Store

Mind the Product

Taking on the Mobile proposition at M&S in 2014, meant taking on a group of neglected products that were suffering from a lack of clear purpose, both internally and externally. The post Transitioning from Market Stall to App Store appeared first on MindTheProduct. Inheritance Tax.

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How aligning product and marketing teams improves customer experience

Mind the Product

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. Why Marketing and Product must work together. We’re all familiar with some variation of the traditional linear marketing funnel.

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Priorities for Product Management Leaders; Product Management Festival 2014 recap

Good Product Manager

Recap in Tweets: Product Management Festival 2014. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014. — Michael Smith (@myksmith) September 17, 2014. . — Michael Smith (@myksmith) September 17, 2014. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014.

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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.