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Product Managers – More Strategic as Product CEO or Portfolio Executive?

Product Management University

The product CEO analogy for product managers has been around forever, but when you think about it, does it really make sense for B2B software? Portfolio Vision Portfolio CEO, the first and most important thing you’re going to do, just like the CEO of a company, is establish a “north star” vision for the portfolio. Feeling good?

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

“The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator. It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy.

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Start your marketing with why: Getting your story right

Intercom, Inc.

The result is that differentiating yourself on product alone is harder than ever. When I joined Intercom, the first thing I did was to sit with the founders and try to understand the mission and vision of the product: Why did they create Intercom? But SaaS has changed that. To succeed, you need to reverse your marketing.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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How we’re building a marketing engine to move upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

Imagine trying to maintain a unified message and overall brand vision across those time zones and organizations – it’s a big challenge for any marketer. If Shane’s vision for our Marketing team excites you, check out our open roles. As Shane points out, you need to be able to test hypotheses all the way through to revenue.

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How can Enterprise Product Managers Attain Maximum Insight From Limited Datapoints?

Mind the Product

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. The following are some tips and tricks I’ve learned working on B2B products at Google and Rubrik, a startup in the cloud data management space.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: Five B2B Product Management Best Practices

Product Management University

Here are five B2B product management best practices that’ll give product management teams the coveted “strategic” moniker among executives, marketing, sales, engineering and customer success teams. Vision & Strategy. If you have 20 products, that equates to 20 product visions and 20 product strategies.

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