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

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2019

So when we got her on the line, we covered everything… including Japanese deployment strategies, Marmite and peanut butter, product leadership and team organisation, how companies scale, how to pick the right environment for you, and even her new book, Escaping the Build Trap. Quotes of the Episode. This place is a mess.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Jeff helps organizations and executives build the cultures that build better products. He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Rapid Experimentation for Product Managers.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. UX studio .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2017

Ours is still unfolding, but I’ve been reflecting on what building a product business within a service agency has brought to the tale. Six months later we began building our first software product. Let me explain: Why a Product Startup? If I’ve learned one thing during this year, it’s that you need a plan.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Harpal is a seasoned Product leader with 15+ year track record of delivering digital products within consumer and enterprise space. He co-founded a Machine Learning technology startup and served as CPO / VP of Product at intu plc (FTSE 100), Selligent Marketing Cloud, Epica.ai The Best Product Consultant.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. I’m often engaged by product leaders in this space.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

There are many people who graduated and were introduced to product management afterward. They spent a few years in another job, maybe as an analyst or consultant. How do these people get into product? Strategies to switch into product management. Associate Product Management (APM) programs.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2020

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Scalable product strategy. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Scalable product strategy. Prioritisation frameworks.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. For startups, this can be the end.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups. It’s Hamburg-based Pau , featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s Arne Kittler!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 25, 2017

These Entrepreneurial Leaders need new skills and a different mindset, because ideas like Good and Progress look very different in a startup than they do in the core business. This requires small, cross-functional, 100% dedicated startup teams who are tasked with hunting high-value customer problems to solve. Prepare for Change.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Amanda Ralph Product Management Consultant.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Fraser was Director of Innovation and Transformation at Pivotal and she has founded and served as CEO for several startups, including Luxr, an early Lean Startup firm, and Adaptive Path, the world’s first User Experience firm. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. More speakers to come!

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Product Talk

JANUARY 9, 2019

They want to pick my brain, see how they can help me, get advice on their product, their job search, their role, and so on. Others are looking for a consultant and not a coach—more on that in the next section. Here’s a list of things I don’t do, even though I get asked to do them all the time: I don’t consult.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Instead of implementing the entire product, teams started to engineer small increments and test them in the market.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product strategy and no agreed-upon “go-to” resource to start developing this muscle. Understanding how to differentiate based on particular attributes to better serve particular segments is nowadays a common practice in product strategy.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Gibson on Product Strategy, Consumer Science and Culture. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Related Links. The GLEe Model.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? you’ll find hundreds of articles, most pointing to the same reasons: No market need Ran out of cash Team problems Pricing/product/business models issues Competition One small problem I have with these reasons. Truth needs to be told?—?startups Google it?—?you’ll

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. The people they talked to wanted to test their product, they loved what they saw, and were intrigued to hear and get more.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups. As a product leader and team builder, Nicholas is a seasoned technology executive, and an industry expert with extensive experience in platform from mobility to location services to music and media. Sophie Manton – Independent Consultant.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

You can start upping your engagement game with: A Customer Advisory Board A customer advisory board is an especially good idea for B2B product companies. These customers are then consulted, with the intent to validate the product strategy and long-term roadmap.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

To succeed in this new technological era, companies from small startups to huge enterprises are realizing they need a solid IoT product strategy and they need product managers to help in this area. This is where the concept of a “T-shaped” Product Manager comes into play.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 30, 2020

Currently based in Amsterdam John-Simon spends the majority of his time with various stage startups throughout AsiaPac, consulting as an expert-in-residence, supporting product strategy and execution. ” But in product, he continues, “there is a huge amount of green talent and that’s a good thing.

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