Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

We’ve heard it again and again – these are odd times; we’re not working remotely, we’re working during a crisis; this is not the new normal. You’re not working the same way, and your customers have different needs than they did a month ago. Customer Discovery. Remote Working. Adapting to change.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 11, 2020

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. The post Managing Change – Joe Leech on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product. Just call him Mr Joe. Related Links. *

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 29, 2018

But making the transition from consultant engineer to a product engineer was a revelation – I realized that working as an engineer in client services and working as a product engineer are essentially two completely different jobs, bridged only by the common use of technology. Being a Consultant Engineer. The Fast-Cheap-Good triangle.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The post Building Accessible Products – Jonathan Hassell on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. How do we get a great experience of a digital product for every single person using it? Visit The Product Experience homepage for more information and more episodes! Links mentioned in this episode.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 24, 2020

But Fabrice des Mazery, CPO at Thiga, suggests the skills we’ve honed during this time can actually be useful in building relationships with our customers. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude, he draws on his experience at Deezer, [.]. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s been drilled into our heads time and time again – as product people, we know that we are not the customer. What follows is that we need to get to know our customers, to figure out what their problems are, how they perceive & prioritise them, and how they react to the solutions we [.].

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. But in truth, there’s never been a better time. Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard. mParticle is the customer data platform for brands leading the CX revolution.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Egyptian-born Abdelrahman (Abdo) Wahba co-founded popular Arabic audiobook site Iqraaly – but it wouldn’t have seen its current success unless Abdo had taken the time to analyse deeply what made customers stay loyal. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

It’s an interesting question and one that takes time to unpack. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. The first time I heard the term, I asked someone what it meant. That was until I had my first experience teaching Product Management at a company using the SAFe framework.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. What matters is that somehow, someway, you still get those 10 paying customers closed.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

The only person in the room who is an expert on the customer’s context is the customer. If your customers don’t care that much about your product, then they’re not going to talk to you. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. We weren’t disappointed. Quotes of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky, Make Time ( US / UK / DE ). Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky, Make Time ( US / UK / DE ).

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Here we provide a brief overview of the best app developers for startups for 2021. From day one, most startups are concerned with the question “How to find the best technology partner.” To make things easier for you, we have compiled a list of the best app development companies with immense expertise in working with startups.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 5, 2021

The post The Habits of Successful Product Managers – Dave Martin on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. Marty Cagan’s books Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love and Empowered: Ordinary people, Extraordinary Products. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 5, 2020

The post Service Design and Product – Andy Budd on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. A founder of Clearleft, a member of Adobe’s Design Circle, and a prolific Twitter user, he has some definite opinions on the matter. Creating a better customer experience. Twitter user?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 9, 2021

There’s no glory in working on internal tools – no one ever gives you credit for success, it’s almost impossible to recruit for, and there’s never enough time to fix all of the things that are needed. The post Managing Internal Tools – Emily Patterson on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The post Building Products in AsiaPac – Colin Pal and Adrienne Tan on The Product Experience [rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product. With more than 25 years of experience between them, they’ve been there since the beginning, seen the evolution of the scene, and have some amazing advice to share. Remote working.

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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.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 1, 2021

Of course, your goal is to get more and more users and engage them with your application. But how can the user experience of your product help? How can you measure if your users are engaged? How can you measure user experience? The last round of user tests showed the prototype was seamless and easy to use.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 31, 2020

We’re fortunate to work with a broad range of customers, many of whom have put their products and platforms to use to fight against COVID-19. Recognizing that many schools did not have time to prepare for remote learning, Albert.io It is now used in over 30% of all UK schools.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

That experience led to his bestselling book, The Sales Acceleration Formula. Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information. According to Mark, customer retention is a far better indicator of success: .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The post The Invisible Leader: Facilitation Secrets – Elena Astilleros on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product. So the question then becomes – would the customer, if they were looking in on that session and seeing what you were up to – would they feel that their money was invested well?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Not to mention changes to workflows affecting an increasingly large amount of users. I hosted Rohini on our podcast to talk about everything from prioritization and product roadmaps to the nitty-gritty techniques for parsing customer feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In short, JTBD is a research process that helps uncover a customer’s motivation for buying your product – the “job” your product is“hired” to complete. Today, Bob is President and CEO at The Re-Wired Group , a consultancy that’s helped develop more than 3,500 products and services. Short on time?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2021

For most of us, the way that we conduct user research has been different during a year of lockdowns. Not so much for Anna Lee Anda, UX Research Manager at Zendesk — as someone with a global customer base, she’s been working with these techniques for ages. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You can delay it until you’ve acquired your first 100 or 1,000 customers, but at some point you’ll need to find sustainable traction in the market. The key to to experiment and iterate on it with discipline, so you can zero in on the one that’s right for your business. Understand what it takes to attract your target customer.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

How can you tell if it’s time to push harder, or should you let things move at their own pace? It adds color to my kitchen, it made me clear the table from other stuff so that it stands out, and every time I look at it I’m filled with joy. These rounds take time. We all want results, and the sooner the better. But some things?—?especially

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The reasons why Saas startups are recently making a huge wave to become the next trillion-dollar industry. Over the past years, investment in SaaS startups has been increasing steadily. Saas startups that provide software as a service have a good delivery model. Key Benefits of Saas — Must know for Saas Startups 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. He’s written more than 650 of them over the past decade and has been featured and quoted in The New York Times, Fortune, Wired and Wall Street Journal. Short on time?

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. What does the company do and who are your main customers?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

and actively engaging their customers to find that fit. Pretty soon, it becomes apparent that the founders cannot keep up with the customer engagement activities they once did. This is most likely the point where others will come on board to handle several functions, customer engagement being among them. It’s a fair question.

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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. Be sure to get specific.

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