The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A guide to vertical strategy implementation for SaaS startups: Tips included 1. Bowery Capital research found that vertical SaaS startups in the manufacturing, cannabis, transportation, and drones industries are expected to see continuing growth. However, in 2016, the founders of Innovaccer opted to focus solely on healthcare.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016). When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers.

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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 Her prior experience includes product management at Wayfair, Constant Contact and an educational software startup. Contributed by Cynthia Andre. Other jobs on the list included Data Scientist, Tax Manager and HR Manager.

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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? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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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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Product Takeoff

MARCH 19, 2019

On December 10, 2016 , a twitter user wrote, “@elonmusk the San Mateo supercharger is always full with idiots who leave their Tesla for hours even if already charged.” The big picture for Product Management is based on these principles of Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

Now, the general consensus seems to be that the MRD is dead as the Dodo, replaced by a product backlog, groomed by a product owner, and lean startup techniques that encourage build/test/evaluate/pivot cycles until you achieve the magical “product-market fit” that is the manna from heaven to a modern corp.

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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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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

I am thoroughly humbled to have made this year’s list of Top 40 Product Management Influencers of 2016 for the SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR! Jake Knapp // Google Ventures Jake is a Design Partner at Google Ventures where he helps startups build better product design. Announcing ‘Sprint’: GV’s guidebook for startups (and Everyone Else).

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Analysts estimate that by 2022, global corporate eLearning will grow to be a $30 billion market.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2019

I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

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. The role that started me on this path was joining a very small startup a little over a decade ago, Climate Corp.

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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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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Unless you work at a startup where you don’t have any existing products yet, there is probably a vocal group of stakeholders, such as customers and sales, that’s interested in fixing real or perceived issues with your existing products. On Product Management, 2016 and Beyond. They also need to tell a story to go with the data.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

Many startups build something for themselves only to discover that other people want it. For example, you’re not going to get TechCrunch to cover that insanely complex feature you spent months building, so your startup shouldn’t waste time building a landing page for it. Start creating your product marketing plan.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

Since its establishment in 2013, it has been providing best-in-class website development, web app development, and mobile app development services for startups, small businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Since 2004, the company has delivered services for startups and already world-famous brands.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Initially joining Vydia in 2016, Gaudio played a pivotal role in building and leading the company’s marketing division, which helped earn Vydia recognition for its innovative product, fast-growing business, and attractive culture. and Automata Robotics over the last decade.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in. But like so many other startups today, when they wanted to press the startup accelerator pedal down hard, they too looked to start building out a sales function.

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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. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach.

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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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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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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 31, 2017

Today (the close of 2016) most of the US has LTE coverage, and it is a real hardship to stumble across a pocket of 3G access, and it is like soooooooo painful. Agile development and Lean Startup. One of the damning aspects of traditional business is the pace of development. But agile development on its own is only half the story.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

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. 2016 – Accelerating Growth. The first sign of hockey stick growth, 2016. The four of us had one clear goal: growth.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This interview happened in 2016 or 2017. For example, if I see that this opportunity comes up more often for designers at startups, then I can focus my recruitment efforts on that segment. When I recall them, they bring me right back to the interview story. That’s the magic of a memorable quote.

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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. Historically, Slack relied heavily on virality for its growth. They had occasional advertising here and there.

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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. Playbook came out in 2016, after many years of us watching this evolution. This is very similar to Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup framework. Previously I was at Hired.com and Creative Market before that.

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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. Hamilton published this work in 2016 after a career of working with over 200 clients as a strategy consultant, including Netflix, Spotify, and Adobe.

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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.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 26, 2017

One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Facebook and Google now control most of the Top 10 apps in the mobile ecosystem: Source: Nielsen, Dec 2016.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 7, 2019

I’m a big believer in taking time to consider personal development – one of the main reasons I started ProductTank in Bristol in 2016. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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The Review by First Round

JULY 29, 2021

Alex first joined Flatiron back in 2016, after an 8-year stint on Google’s People Operations team. Before her promotion to Flatiron’s executive team this past March, Alex previously ran the HR business partner and employee relations team as the startup rapidly scaled. We kicked things off by talking about resolving conflict at work.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

It’s fascinating to me to be in a startup working with some of the largest companies in the world. From there, I went on to become a technical product manager at a machine learning (ML) startup, Context Relevant, responsible for the ML platform. After a couple of years, I moved into the program management organisation.

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

I decided to expand upon an essay I originally wrote in 2016 about developing a continuous feedback loop for your product with detailed case studies of how I have implemented such a feedback loop for my current startup, Notejoy , as well as while leading LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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