Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2016

2) Talk to (at least) five customers. (3) 5) Sit on 10 customer support calls. Watch it here https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2016/10/product-lifecycle-management-beyond-early-adopter/. Good marketing is part of a great customer experience. Those lines are blurring and custom experience is being designed into products.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. Yeah but what’s Jam 2016?! The first presentation was an overview what goes on ‘behind the roadmap at Busuu’ and how the team create a well informed product roadmap. It was pretty awesome! Antoine Sakho – Busuu. Hugo from Monzo.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

He’s worked on and launched products for Fortune 10 companies and startups. Some notable work from the past few years includes Slack, Notarize, Coinbase, and Sudo with many new, exciting products coming in 2016. We partner heavily at a product level so we share research, performance metrics, product KPI’s etc.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2016

Need to validate product-market fit assumptions and prototypes in just a few days? Customer experience and engagement teardown of the Dollar Shave Club. Customer experience and engagement teardown of the Dollar Shave Club. to improve our customers’ experience. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and….

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 3, 2016

6 tips for getting buy-in on your product roadmap. (1) 2) Remember that your colleagues are also your customers. (3) 5) Use Roadmap Dates Wisely. (6) Read the details at https://community.uservoice.com/blog/how-i-get-buy-in-on-my-product-roadmap/. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. 5) A tight feedback loop.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2016

Defining customer needs with jobs-to-be-done theory. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do. Insights lead to innovations and increased value for customers and the organization. Read more at https://strategyn.com/2016/07/11/customer-needs-defined/.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

He spent 10 years at Google, where he created the Design Sprint process, and he has worked with over 100 startups including Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Uber. His writing on startups and productivity has appeared in Fast Company, TechCrunch, Slate, and LifeHacker. Jake is currently among the world’s tallest designers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 8, 2016

How the practice of A/B testing makes you a better product manager… and manager. The practice of A/B testing is basically conducting a quick experiment to test ideas before making a decision. The practice of A/B testing is basically conducting a quick experiment to test ideas before making a decision.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of Product Manager’s basic responsibilities (or Product Owner’s – if your work in a larger organisation ) is translating the market requirements into a product roadmap – and creating stories, epics and tasks for the development team. Most commonly – employers look for experience when hiring PMs.

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Product Club

MAY 20, 2016

On the one hand, methodologies like lean startup and agile push us to regularly fit our product to the real world. By regularly running tests, validating demand, and shipping in small iterations, we can keep an up-to-date map of our product’s environment. I offer them here for you to use and give feedback on.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The product management team for Yahoo Finance spent the last 18 months conducting user research and learning how to improve Yahoo Finance. The radical changes enraged existing users but have also attracted new users. build products customers want and love. Go from product manager to Product Master and….

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I’m a big fan of the jobs-to-be-done tool for deeply understanding customer problems and motivation. 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.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Nate then became the Chief of Research and Innovation at Tanner Labs, where he built O.C.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Caitlin believes in staying focused on holistic user experience when making product decisions.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit (May 24-27): Our annual Summit brings together 2500+ b-to-b leaders for four full days of data-driven best practices research, unveiling of new innovations across the b-to-b space and networking with an elite community of sales, marketing and product leaders.

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Good Product Manager

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Upcoming Events: Spring 2016. SiriusDecisions 2016 Summit (May 24-27): Our annual Summit brings together 2500+ b-to-b leaders for four full days of data-driven best practices research, unveiling of new innovations across the b-to-b space and networking with an elite community of sales, marketing and product leaders. 9kRPA6V6A9.

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Radical Product

JUNE 19, 2018

When developing and launching these types of products, the need for product thinking is clear: someone must take day-to-day responsibility for the product vision and strategy, manage updates and releases, and balance priorities between customers, technology, and the business. Data Science is typically a core competency for our customers.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Why does the outcome focus on business value and not customer value? How do you test to make sure your opportunity is not a solution in disguise? How do you test to make sure your opportunity is not a solution in disguise? Why can’t you just generate opportunities from what you know about your customers?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think there’s a whole bunch of stuff around trends, where we’re now saying, “If we’re going to make good decisions about what to build, let’s include the customer in the process. Let’s have feedback loops. Let’s test our assumptions. Why do you need to talk to a customer?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

I have a long history of working in miscellaneous startups, either in the creative space or in the recruitment space. Stewart: Thinking back to Dribbble in its earliest days, it was fundamentally a place for designers to post work in progress and get feedback. Playbook came out in 2016, after many years of us watching this evolution.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 4, 2024

He’s been a founder, a first PM at three different startups, and held senior PM roles at Facebook and Attentive. Note: Even in a feature factory that doesn’t explicitly focus on outcomes, there still should be a basic floor around the quality and reliability of the features being delivered to customers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

According to Mind the Product , as of 2016 (we didn’t find newer data), only 35% of all Product Managers were female. We bring a startup mindset and agile methods to both established companies and the public sector to unlock value in ways that delight their customers and improve their operational effectiveness.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 12, 2016

1) Nurturing luck through collaboration and feedback. (2) Read about each from a poker player turned product manager turned startup founder… https://roadmunk.com/blog/poker-product-management/. Read about each from a poker player turned product manager turned startup founder… https://roadmunk.com/blog/poker-product-management/.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. Now, Maggie is the Director of Sales at Webflow , a web design tool that helps users design and build responsive, custom websites with no code whatsoever. Customer first, then company, then yourself.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills. Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. How to apply user growth ideas in an investing context.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

We no longer take months or years to release value to our customers. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. The Rise of User Experience Design [8:47]. The Lean Startup: Eric Ries [9:49]. The Lean Startup. Windows ME.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In 2016, my alma mater, Wharton, asked me to come back and give a talk on product management as the role had ballooned in interest amongst the MBA class. How to Prioritize a Product Roadmap. Prioritizing a product roadmap is more art than science. How to Design Your Customer Validation to Maximize Product/Market Fit.

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Amplitude

APRIL 27, 2020

McKinsey found that half of digital leaders collect and analyze customer data weekly , compared to just 16% of lower-performing customers that do the same. If you want to be a digital leader, start prioritizing customer data. We distilled it down to the five key takeaways you need to know about customer insights.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rich Mironov: Answering Your Audience’s Roadmap Questions. Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian: Alternative Marketing, or “Oops I Did A Marketing” Ayat Shukairy: Why “Customer First” Fails & What To Do About It. Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In this talk Product guru Bruce McCarthy arms you with his battle-tested approach to prioritizing your most critical initiatives that will increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your prioritization decisions. Also I wrote this book on product roadmaps. You have 1 feature, you test that 1 feature.

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