The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The most innovative companies didn’t achieve greatness by sticking to convention. Companies like Airbnb, Netflix, and Basecamp challenged everything they were told about how to build products. Companies like Airbnb mastered real-time prioritization. When a company becomes obsessed with OKRs, risk-taking tends to fade.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. According to Statista, the global IT outsourcing market is projected to exceed $591billion by 2025, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 5.1percent.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

How long will it take to hear back from a company? A big part of Teeba’s process involved putting her product skills to use throughout the job search, both in terms of identifying product-led companies and in terms of mapping out business and product outcomes for companies where she was interviewing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Below, you’ll find what I believe is the most actionable, specific, and straightforward framework for crafting a strategy, for both your product and your company. Over the past 10 years, I’ve used Strategy Blocks in six different high-stake contexts, at companies large and small, including Headspace , Meta , and VRChat.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Top customer success management platforms for mid-market and enterprise companies. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For every company that’s executing the freemium model successfully, there are hundreds more that struggle and the tension it can create between sales, marketing, and product teams. Yet that hasn’t stopped them making big inroads into the enterprise market. Let the product be your sales guide. Crowning the customer.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

For many companies, the word localization typically prompts two thoughts: it’s costly, and it’s time-consuming. And with the right tools, it’s accessible to companies of all sizes, opening a door to a world of opportunity for growth. While all of that might sound daunting, it doesn’t have to be implemented all at once.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. I gather data through surveys about observations.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We were now reviewing the features to be sunset, and the teams to work on them. Then, out of left field, like a slap to the face, marketing said — “But what if someone wants the feature.” I thought, even though I always invite marketing to roadmap discussions. It turns out that the marketer did not agree.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. To calculate NPS, companies ask customers how likely they would be to recommend a product to their colleague or friend on a scale from zero to ten. In-app ratings prompts.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now I talk a lot on my podcast and in this newsletter about the correlation between successful companies and an obsession with velocity. I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. I’ve finally found it.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Looking at a start-up company maybe there is no need to do a detailed stakeholder map as the product manager usually is well connected and already has update meetings on a regular basis with all relevant stakeholders like the CEO or VP of commercial operations. Stakeholders are impacted by the product indirectly or directly.

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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. I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This includes interviewing and observing users, using key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the value of the current product version, keeping an eye on the competition, and monitoring market trends. [2] For example, can it be effectively marketed, sold, and serviced? But like any tool, Scrum has its benefits and limitations.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But in practice, organising teams around products can be challenging, especially when a company lacks a clear understanding of what a (digital) product is and if it does not embrace a product-led way of working. For example, the marketer must be able to create the right marketing strategy for the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

She shared insights from her experience leading product teams at various organizational scales and helping companies transform their product vision into measurable business growth. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

2] Market Research AI-based tools can discover user and customer trends using predictive analytics. Customer Insights and Idea Generation AI tools can analyse market data, customer feedback, and emerging trends to suggest new products and features, assuming that enough relevant data is available. Take the original iPhone as an example.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. We’d made great code. Similar, right?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mobile marketers and product managers can immediately take action on events in Apptentive by simply flipping a switch. This saves companies valuable time and resources. Apptentive allows companies to measure shifts in customer emotion and gather actionable feedback across their mobile customer journeys.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

6 Acquisition App downloads Track initial user acquisition and measure marketing campaign effectiveness. 7 Acquisition Customer acquisition cost Understand the cost of acquiring each user and optimize marketing spending. You’ve optimized your app store listing and doubled down on marketing campaigns.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Well, I reviewed 40 session recording options in the market and handpicked the top 10 for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises to review. But theres a caveat, the cost may feel steep for small companies since this is a product thats designed for mid-market to enterprise companies.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 11, 2025

A company that offers proactive, educational support sets itself apart in a world where customers are looking for more than just a product, they want a partnership. On the other hand, poor support can quickly lead to bad reviews, social media complaints, or lost customers. They are unmatched.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. However, it’s not easy to pick a tool among the many suitable options in the market. To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Sadly, that’s rarely true, and strategies from the upper management are often multi-year in length with a scope focused on the company profitability without any of the product level details. No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements. Second Attempt.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. Larger companies often have several portfolios; early-stage startups, in contrast, usually have a singleton one—it consists of just one offering.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

On one hand, everybody expected me to focus on the problems that will help them to succeed in their workflows or function, and on the other hand, I had limited time to give all the problems their due attention it. Therefore, it was important for me to be aware of the following three things: 1) Where should I start? 2) What should I solve?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2024

For software and SaaS products, development and lifecycle management often overlap. Understanding these ideas and using them well can help product managers handle the complexities of product lifecycle management and drive innovation in their companies. It covers a product’s entire journey from idea to market retirement.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Which market and market segment should the product address? How will it benefit the company? Whenever you create a brand-new product or when you make bigger changes to an existing one, like taking it to a new market , you will benefit from using a dedicated, timeboxed product discovery period. What are its business goals?

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Userpilot

APRIL 26, 2024

You’re looking to track your customer data and build your sales and marketing efforts around it. Do that by choosing the right customer tracking software for your business. However, it’s not easy to pick a tool among a myriad of tools available on the market. Amplitude for path and A/B testing analytics.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Before we discuss the steps for creating interactive demos, let’s explain some of the benefits so you can see why this marketing asset is not a waste of resources. Tap into existing resources : Review recordings of sales calls, customer support interactions , marketing materials, and product documentation.

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