First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. 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 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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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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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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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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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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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 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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2018

You could say we’re biased, but the evidence became clearer than ever when messaging apps surpassed social networks in popularity in 2016: Reach. from 8 minutes in 2016 ( eMarketer, 2017 ). 53%: Consumers are 53% more likely to shop with a business they can message ( Facebook Nielsen report, 2016 ). Engagement. Engagement.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

He began his career in demand generation at fast-growing, VC-backed startups, excelling at driving leads for sales teams. In 2016, while at Vidyard, Wes launched a free product that changed everything. Wes Bush on building a product-led growth startup. Vidyard’s free product has since reached millions.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

If you’re interested in learning more about MVPs, I’m running a one day workshop in Paris on June 14, 2016. A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers – through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. More information here.

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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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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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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. Yeah but what’s Jam 2016?! I guess that’s a by product of working for a ‘mission driven startup’, Nilan and Transfer Wise seemed like a great fit. It was pretty awesome! We appreciated the pick me up after lunch (and the star jumps).

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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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Watch it here https://www.mindtheproduct.com/2016/10/product-lifecycle-management-beyond-early-adopter/. 2016 Product Management Year in Review. See who is on the list of the Top 40 Influencers for 2016 in product management… [link]. The traditional lifecycle is introduction, growth, maturity, decline, and retirement.

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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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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

However, at that time, I was busy working on my startup as a co-founder, so this feeling endured for another 1,5 years. We did research for Netflix and supported the startups of the Google incubator. I am holding the book as if it were holding me in the strong autumn wind of 2016.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 22, 2016

Read this perspective in HBR for more information https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-your-innovation-team-needs-a-lawyer. Listen to the interview at https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/20/tony-fadell-speaks-out-about-innovation-revolution-nest-steve-jobs-and-entrepreneurship/. Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and….

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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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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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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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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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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 Review by First Round

MARCH 3, 2022

When he first joined in 2016, he served as one of the payments company’s early account executives, leading their first attempts to go upmarket and land enterprise logos. For the next three years, he headed up Stripe’s Startup/SMB business. We end on his advice for startup folks looking to transition into venture.

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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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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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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. BASE FOOD officially launched in April of 2016 in Japan and became Amazon Japan’s top seller of the year in the food category for 2017. How BASE FOOD is adjusting to the new market.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2016

Read more at https://strategyn.com/2016/07/11/customer-needs-defined/. New Podcast Episode: Innovate like a startup – with Michael Docherty. Insights lead to innovations and increased value for customers and the organization. They are essential for growth. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1) 1) Relationships. (2)

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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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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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First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. 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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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 16, 2021

In 2016 Rob Castaneda , CEO of ServiceRocket, spoke about the three mistakes he made that almost killed his company. ServiceRocket works with companies at various growth stages from startup through IPO journey, and across all platforms—open-source, on-premise and cloud technologies. Rob’s Talk.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Our conversation reminded me of an old startup adage that still rings true: First-time founders worry about the product, second-time founders worry about go-to-market. However, thinking about go-to-market right at the beginning of your SaaS journey can help you avoid some of the costliest mistakes I and many other startup founders made.

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