Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Watch it here https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2016/10/product-lifecycle-management-beyond-early-adopter/. Good marketing is part of a great customer experience. At one time customer experience was what happened after a product launches and the responsibility of marketing, not product management.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Horizontal SaaS has been around considerably longer than Vertical SaaS, has a larger market, and is more difficult to saturate. A guide to vertical strategy implementation for SaaS startups: Tips included 1. The education industry has a sizable market, but expansion is constrained by intense competition and fewer opportunities.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 17, 2016

New book for learning how to apply Lean Startup practices – Scaling Lean by Ash Maurya. In his first book he shared his experiments applying Lean Startup and provided a how-to guide for Lean practices. Product management, a formal role in organizations since the 1930’s, has become the hot career in 2016. What went wrong?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2016

Want to get hired as a product manager at a startup? Startups are embracing product management at a faster rate and adding product managers to their teams sooner. This article was written from the perspective of hiring a product manager for a startup but you can use it to learn how to get hired: [link]. 4) Innovating the core.

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First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Here, Moore shares the lessons he's learned along the way, from weathering bear markets and losing out to the competition, to finding (and falling out of) product/market fit. Since he cut his teeth as a first-time founder in turbulent times, he's gone on to build two other companies.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 Think critically about product direction and market opportunity. The confidence to communicate and lead comes from your preparedness, knowledge of the market and data. Contributed by Cynthia Andre. Have a new idea?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2016

While product management has existed for decades, 2016 is the year the role reached new popularity. Who’s better at innovation – startups or big companies? Traditionally innovation in big companies is thought of as incremental improvements to what they do and not the disruptive leaps in innovation that startups can make.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 12, 2016

Read about each from a poker player turned product manager turned startup founder… https://roadmunk.com/blog/poker-product-management/. See the suggestions at https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2016/08/tools-use-product-manager/. Poker lessons that apply to product management. (1) 1) Nurturing luck through collaboration and feedback. (2)

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2016

Read more at https://strategyn.com/2016/07/11/customer-needs-defined/. I have personally been expanding my knowledge of online marketing and in the process have discovered tools and concepts that help me as a product manager. New Podcast Episode: Innovate like a startup – with Michael Docherty. They are essential for growth.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. The leadership team asked for a formal Market Requirements Document to help their decision process. It had last been touched in 2016. Why am I bringing this up? Oh, there were some challenges.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

9 startup founder skills that product managers also need. 7) Social media marketing. (8) 7) Social media marketing. (8) The post Creating product teams–and other innovation insights for product managers July 1, 2016 appeared first on The Everyday Innovator - Resources for Product Managers and Innovators. 5) WordPress. (6)

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2016

Need to validate product-market fit assumptions and prototypes in just a few days? Author of the new book, Chaos Monkeys, and former product manager at Facebook shares why “working at Facebook at the time was more stressful than being at a startup.” 2) Seek out the startups that want to eat your lunch. (3) Read more at [link].

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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle of Introduction, growth , maturity and decline.With digital disruption in the market place it is very critical that we design products that stay in the growth phase for a longer period of time. The big picture for Product Management is based on these principles of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The story you tell to the market, the competitive moats you build, the pricing models fueling your growth – everything that got you to where you are needs to be reimagined for your new buyer. Analysts estimate that by 2022, global corporate eLearning will grow to be a $30 billion market.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This article comes from a writer who was inspired by one of my little posts – thanks for sharing your insights Conaway… https://www.getflow.com/blog/crickets-crumbs-the-art-of-startup-team-leadership. 7 steps established companies must take to not become a [dead] dinosaur in rapidly changing markets. Innovation is truly the answer.

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, sponsored by Amplitude, learn how to apply this ethos to [.].

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freshtrax

JULY 16, 2019

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Market Capitalization. SanBio Ltd.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 19, 2017

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. Some providers, such as Microsoft, have started providing their services free to startups, in the hope of turning them into paying customers as they grow. Instead, startups are raising more capital and burning more capital to get to their Series As. AWS instead of your own datacenter.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Fast forward to 2016 when I joined HSBC in Hong Kong and repitched the idea in my first week of working there – then, the timing was great. HSBC’s share of the millennial market had been shrinking for the previous three years. All in all, it took exactly one year from pitch to market launch.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We’re talking about world-class universities, countless startups, VCs and more. Reason #4: Startup incubators and accelerators. I’ll admit that early stage startups don’t always (think that they) need product managers BUT that’s not always the case. According to the Boston Startups Guide there are 50 (!)

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

For more than a decade people, departments and entire companies (including his own) have asked Paul Young, currently Vice President of Products at Pragmatic Marketing , to deliver successful and continuously improving products. Understanding your strategy and placement in your market is key.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Hide, ignore, and automate Slack 😑 Unfair: In my experience, PMs get tagged on Slack far more than any other role in a startup. (OK, To anyone outside the product team, we are design, engineering, QA, data, knowledge team, and often marketing. OK, maybe we tie with engineering team leads.)

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

It goes without saying that to survive in the current market, small businesses and large enterprises may need a helping hand of a reliable software developer. Since 2004, the company has delivered services for startups and already world-famous brands. Web and mobile technologies are penetrating all areas of our lives.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

Most notably he led growth strategy at Creative Market (a global marketplace for design content that was acquired by Autodesk) and Hired.com. All the while, the product has remained invite-only and hasn’t required traditional marketing. Previously I was at Hired.com and Creative Market before that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That just blows my mind.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Switching costs.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers. This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016 her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fewer than 10% of startups survive and grow into large companies and, for every time growth is done right, there are 100 ways it could have been done wrong. I worked with a hyper-funded startup that grew too fast too soon, fixating on “fundable” metrics, and eventually had to be sold off. This learning did not come cheap.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. What’s not to like?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Ivy is currently the Vice President of Design for the Hardware Product Area at Google, which was officially formed in 2016. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. The #mtpcon London speakers. More speakers to come!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

A larger ecosystem of these big players sooner or later becomes a threat for the product-led-growth startups. Microsoft launched Team in 2016 and took over many customers of Slack, and currently has almost twice as many daily active users as Slack. Slack has a strong presence in the startups’ ecosystem as a single collaboration app.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

After her work on the Creative Cloud, Lea went on to manage the consumer business at Adobe where she had responsibility for all marketing, product, and engineering. After Adobe, Lea led product at InVision, a startup focused on design collaboration where she built and designed best practices for the product team. Get those tickets now!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

This was a significant milestone for the messaging app, as it doubled its user base in just four years from 1 billion in 2016. In 2016, WhatsApp launched end-to-end encryption for all messages, ensuring that users’ conversations remained private and secure. WhatsApp contributed approximately 0.9%

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