Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

Especially in B2C or B2B2C markets where our tech is part of a long value chain: perhaps our software helps some employee collect data to tune a service that improves delivery of some consumer product… Creating real-world value is a multi-step process involving many players. See personas 4 and 7.” Wasted energy.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. SaaStr Annual.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As Gail Goodman said in her 2012 BoS talk, ‘ The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death ’, these are all just mirages along the pathway to software company profitability. He connects this story to building a software company. This is particularly true when it comes to how quickly things change in the tech industry.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. There seems to be a belief?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

When working with Leo’s team, the launch preparations will take on average around 10 hours, versus 50 to 120 hours when managing the campaign entirely in-house. B2B versus B2C). A mix of reasons: lack of preparation, audience mismatch, or just bad timing, with too much competition on your chosen launch day.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Business-to-consumer (B2C) targets individuals and families. B2C, SMB and Enterprise companies not only behave differently, they are structured differently. Unstated B2C Assumptions. What’s B2B?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Not long ago, we noticed an interesting trend: even businesses that had nothing to do with the usual tech sector were seeking UX studio’s help to improve their websites and apps. When it comes to average purchases on a B2C platform, individual decisions are usually impulsive and driven by momentary preferences, emotions, and desires.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Thanks to a combination of advancements in hardware and software, an outpouring of investment, and a massive spike in business and consumer interest, we believe that virtual reality has hit an inflection point that will propel us from the mobile era to the virtual reality/ augmented reality era. Building non-gaming VR experiences.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. A music streaming service needs different health indicators than an aircraft manufacturer or online ad marketplace or security software vendor or dating app. Yet it’s the first KPI proposed by many exec teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Customer Development It always starts with the customer. While the mainstream market is tempting, early adopters are usually an easier group to experiment on—they are willing to forgive more and risk more for the chance of getting an innovative advantage or just playing with new tech. and how much they want it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

There may be a sales strategy, a marketing strategy, and product strategy, and operational strategy, an technology strategy, etc. It it at the intersection of customer, tech, and business which means that everyone function in an organization is impacted by the product. Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. Stage : Early-stage for B2C, an evergreen lever for B2B. Use that same creativity to develop PR pitches. Cost : Medium. Examples : Lyft: [link]. DoorDash: [link].

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back. A bit background on myself; I’ve been working in the agile industry, making software for 12 plus years now, and mainly with fast growing venture capital fund and startups in Berlin or with large corporate organizations. That’s my world.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. Stage : Early-stage for B2C, an evergreen lever for B2B. Use that same creativity to develop PR pitches. Cost : Medium. Examples : Lyft: [link]. DoorDash: [link].

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Even though product managers are supposed to engage various teams during the day, chances are you are not moving that much. Because a new trend is quickly gaining traction in tech and product management: remote work. Bad news first: the reasons for not working remotely OK, let’s be honest for a second.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Read on for the Product Development Health Check Playbook written by Angus McDonald and Kayla Li.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I wanna, first of all, thank Tom and the whole marketing team for putting this show together, can we get a round of applause for them? Every company will be a software company or is a software company, in some way or form or some time now or soon. In the meantime, take it away, Alfonso… ?. Hello, guys, how are you?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2024

  An enterprise software company with $150,000 average sale looks and behaves very differently from a music stream service or consumer finance app charging $8/month.    The weekly exec meeting starts with a deal-level pipeline review.    Salespeople who don’t close their top deals get fired. 

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