The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2019

Some aspect of the above story is often seen playing out within many companies and startups alike everywhere. As the Lean Startup methodology suggests, build-measure-learn. What: What is the minimum set of features that you could build, and test that you are indeed solving the needs of the users?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

At some inflection point of growth, it becomes impossible to intuitively know your customers, let alone decide which ones to focus on. We could no longer assume all our customers had uniform needs and could be reached the same way. What is customer segmentation? This final assumption in particular was no longer true or useful.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

As the coronavirus outbreak upends lives and businesses everywhere, support teams are increasingly the first place that customers turn to for guidance. Our new research reveals the impact it’s had on these teams. Some of our own customers are experiencing up to 10 times the number of new chat conversations.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

It’s no longer about making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week—if not every day. While Orion had started with a B2C focus, they got a lot of inbound interest in the B2B space. Tweet This This can sound overwhelming.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one. “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.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2024

Usability testing is an invaluable resource for UX researchers…but only if you’re able to recruit participants in the first place. This is a problem that our own UX researcher at Userpilot, Lisa, faced when she tried recruiting participants the traditional way. Recruiting usability test participants via email.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Table of Contents The problem with defining product-market fit In search of quantitative indicators of product-market fit 6 things about measuring product-market fit 1. With that in mind, product-market fit is a spectrum 4. Once you find product-market fit, it’s not static 6. It makes sense intuitively.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s easy to answer whether you have a product/market fit: can the revenue your customers pay for your product sustain (or even grow) your business? But how can you know whether your market-fit is strong enough, or if you’re focusing on the right audience? Product Can you tell if your product is on the right track?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

But is your mobile user acquisition strategy strong enough? If you expect users to come naturally just because your product is good, youre already at a disadvantage. Not only are there over 2 million apps in the Google Play Store , but also about 13% of business apps succeed (even less for consumer apps).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing technology – or MarTech – stacks are the groups of technologies that marketers use to execute, analyze and improve their marketing across the customer lifecycle. To summarize: Martech isn’t about making your strategy fit to the technology you want to use. Strategy first, technology second. Stage 2: Engage.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. The good news is that product-market fit, like people, and cars, have their own “operating system”.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 11, 2021

On the surface, B2B customer support issues might look quite different from those of B2C. Typically, B2B issues can be more complex, require the collaboration of a lot more departments within the company, and are often in direct dialogue with the consumer, rather than a buying team or committee.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Case: “ Suppose you have been hired as a PM for a tech startup that is trying to launch smartwatches in India in a non-premium segment. Interviewer: Yes, I’m okay with them!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

What’s the customer value that you’re going to deliver? Too often the vision is not tied to customer outcomes and not focused on customer value that needs to be delivered. Product management is concentrated on the creation of customer value from which you’re then in a position to derive business value.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 2, 2019

And before Instacart, Bangaly was at another “Insta” (Instagram), where he helped double the photo sharing platform’s monthly users to more than 1 billion. This is episode eight of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. households and 60% of Canadian households.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

all the ingredients of a great startup experience! In a pay-it-forward kind of way, my team and I are sharing what we have learned to-date in a series of posts that hopefully will be useful to you whether you are at a startup or a larger organization. Do your research. Read about the industry, competitors, customers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 16, 2024

Please send us feedback (or leave a comment ) on anything you think we’re missing, or anything unique about your business that caused you to modify the equation you use. One key metric for every business is customer acquisition payback period. This won’t be perfect. We’d love to hear it.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

Product Hunt is one of the most effective ways to get early users for a product. It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. Companies like Notion, Loom, Zapier, Robinhood, and Front all found their first set of users this way.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2017

Sunil Parekh is the VP of Product Management at Truveris, which is a healthcare startup based out of New York City. In the start of his presentation at ProductTank NYC, he further breaks down his experience by listing some of the professional roles he’s played, like Lab Researcher, R&D Engineer, Product Manager, and Startup Advisor.

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2024

They are a great way to encourage and retain customers by offering rewards to help you create long-term relationships with new customers. Customer loyalty programs boost customer retention, repeat purchases, business relationships, and upselling /cross-selling opportunities, enhancing revenue and partnerships.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Dispelling 3 myths stopping B2B Product Managers using B2C product research tactics Product Managers of Business-to-Business (B2B) products keep telling me that “the tactics consumer product companies use just aren’t relevant for us in customer development”. The best-known, unicorn B2C companies?—?Facebook,

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Testing products before you build them? I was now going to build things that mattered to my customers. This idea was prime for testing. Customers were pissed. What a novel idea!

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Userzoom

APRIL 21, 2020

UX at William Hill is all about understanding the psychology behind customer decisions and designing products that enhance their experience. This included working at a market research agency that did usability research. This included working at a market research agency that did usability research.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Four years later, and as the company moves decidedly upmarket with their customer base, it’s adapting its sales cycles to cater for bigger clients.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One of the biggest challenges that business owners or product managers (PM) face is figuring out what their customers want. Too often, we ask customers what they want, instead of asking what they do. Instead of asking customers what they want, ask them what they do. Your customer is not the solution designer.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After all, not only do you have to produce value efficiently, but also distribute it to your customers while maintaining proper relationships with them, keeping your costs in check, and securing profits. Customer Development It always starts with the customer. You might need to map more than one category of customers.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them. The product team at Going includes product management, product design, UX research, and a flight experts team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Not too long ago, when Intercom turned 10 , we dedicated an entire episode to speed , or why startups should always strive to keep momentum as they scale. And sure enough, the feedback was that things were starting to slow down. don’t just help test the team’s momentum, they also help point out where the bottlenecks are.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This post is now the single best way to find my best stuff across both the newsletter and podcast.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

As CPO, it’s my responsibility to ensure that we build the right product for the right customers, both today and in the future. It’s fascinating to me to be in a startup working with some of the largest companies in the world. They’re smart and highly motivated to learn and to serve our customers. Landing the Role.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. In-app surveys , usability and prototype testing , or user interviews and focus groups can help you understand your customers’ requirements.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 9, 2024

Subscribe now P.S. New swag drop Q: I’ve been working on my startup for a couple of years now. Most startups, and new product ideas, fail—we all know this—but it’s different when it’s your product. And if they don’t find product-market fit, nothing else really matters. You can too.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2018

3 years ago I decided it’s time for me to leave my product role in a large B2B software company and start my own B2C startup called Missbeez. I would like to share with you some of the insights of my journey so far and the key differences between leading a B2B product and a B2C one. User = Buyer Sounds obvious right?

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