Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Companies differentiate themselves from competitors by building a richer understanding of the opportunity space. I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. Vistaly is a startup in this space that has happy customers. What is an opportunity?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2023

Let’s consider another example: HealthTech — Virtual Exercise App Business Description: An app providing a range of virtual exercise classes, personal training sessions, and health tracking features. Core Value/Mission: To facilitate fitness and wellness in a convenient, accessible format. North Star Metric: Daily Active Users.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 13, 2019

Unless you’re an early stage startup, your product positioning is well documented. The goal of structuring product marketing along segment lines is to differentiate your value at a higher level that speaks to the strategic aspirations of decision-makers. A product structure alone will never get you there.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product managers who work at startups have their work cut out for them. Nowadays, sharpening your startup product manager skills has become more of a priority than they have ever been. Based on startup statistics shared by Embroker , around 90% of startups fail.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). Another helpful tactic to drive delight is to lean into differentiation : what do you do differently from the competition? Focusing on a competitive differentiator.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I find that every business requires at least these 8 product/market fit hypotheses that make up their product strategy, but your specific business may have more: Target audience Problem you're solving Value propositions Strategic differentiation Competition Acquisition strategy Monetization strategy Key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. This is something that we saw with a lot of our startup clients, and a mistake we didn’t make with Close, which I am very grateful for. Speed is everything. You can worry about that later.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

What I find to be one of the biggest hallmarks, if not the hallmark of quality onboarding, is to blur the lines between the core use of your product and the introduction of your product to the point where people can’t really differentiate between the two. Adam: Do you feel that startups ever underestimate the depreciation of onboarding?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

When you see a company pull $10 million in funding and hiring like crazy, it’s easy to want the same for your startup without understanding the stress that comes with it. Josh: With the survey software, I made the mistake of not differentiating myself enough from SurveyMonkey or the 10,000 other survey apps out there.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

In many ways the hardest part of design is the prioritization exercise that requires determining exactly what is above the line for the next release. The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

I learned to think and speak in a new language that included things like market forces, differentiation, competitive advantage, barriers to entry, segmentation, and focus. On the other hand, there is the tech world, and lean startup, and agile. If this happens, it means you got immense value from this exercise.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

We build a little table,, and the table has in it all the kind of components of in a solution and then it has, effectively two columns, sorry, three columns: essentials, then differentiators, and then not now. They’re startups, size 10 through a thousand. We compete in the fact that we already have customers” or something like that.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 13, 2024

April’s background ▶ April didn’t study marketing but engineering at school and worked at a startup when they were still called “small companies.” Translate into value: The above unique attributes often bucket into themes of value that are differentiated. ” Or the market conditions have changed (e.g.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

And for a PM, differentiation becomes more critical. The data you focus on seems to be a key differentiator in SaaS product management. For mature startups, this may come through in software acquisitions or new internal product builds. There is no one-size-fits-all; it’s an ongoing exercise. Switching has become easier.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I see many startups fail because they want to move quickly to get to market, often utilizing System 1 thinking to develop a product. Exercise 3: Forge Connections with Special Uplifting Moments Ever noticed how some people can leave you feeling drained, tired, and down? Sit down, close your eyes, and focus inward. walking, yoga, etc.)

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

Then 100% – a mere doubling annually in a startup ecosystem that demands a much faster target. Particularly for startups, where continual growth is life and death. and do I have strong differentiation?) But weirdly, a year or two in, there’s some softness in the latest numbers. But worryingly, it keeps slowing.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Therefore, Ben and Blair differentiate between customer and user problems.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For Amazon, speed is a critical competitive differentiator. Amazon’s Product Strategy: A Customer-Centric Company Built on Day 1 Startup Culture. Bezos has in recent years pushed to cultivate a Day 1 startup culture throughout the organization to stay customer-centric. The role of Amazon product managers. passion for invention.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

A smaller company might leave this exercise to product management, including product marketing, to bring perspective and expertise. In smaller startups, product management does a lot of that sizing. It would be best if you had specificity to establish differentiation. Product marketers evaluate the total addressable market.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re an established company with a new product or a brand-new startup, knowing where you fit in the market is vital. Here are some general tips: Startup : As a pioneer, you need to focus on creating a market for your product. Of course, wasting money on an unwanted venture is the worst-case scenario. Image source.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description.

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eG Innovations

MAY 8, 2020

What differentiates eG Enterprise APM? We looked for both commercial and technological differentiators. We have capabilities to dynamically attach a Java agent to an already running JVM, such that you don’t need to edit any startup scripts or even restart the application server. What differentiates eG Enterprise APM?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In order to get to fluency you need to be able to read more than a sentence at once, obviously, but most of Duolingo’s reading exercises today are one sentence exercises. Hannah: What would you say are some key points that differentiate Duolingo from competitors? And I would say it’s the main differentiator as well.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 21, 2019

Her CV is impressive: VP of Marketing at several successful high-growth startups, an executive at 3 global tech giants, and 16 products launched to market over her career. Your product’s USPs will help differentiate it in the market, and move the ‘So?’ That’s because positioning is a business strategy exercise.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

A software engineer at a fintech startup recently recounted a story of how a simple text change on mobile notifications led to a jump in engagement from 5% to 50%: The moment I realised the power of "nudges" was at Monzo when we changed the push notification copy on P2P transfers to include "Tap to say thanks! You can feel it.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve been at a number of product events recently where conversations turned to fractional work, joining or launching a startup, or simply taking time off due to a lack of opportunity in one’s current situation. Differentiate : Embrace uniqueness as being the same can be limiting and honestly quite tiring.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 21, 2019

Try this exercise. The other issue in picking the right idea is differentiating the quality of idea from the passion expressed by the person who generated the idea. By this, we mean peers who themselves are originals and creatives in the field you are working in. When you are evaluating one or more ideas.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They can create really nice looking screens that are user friendly […] But if you’re building on top of that some business knowledge, and you’re able to think with the head of business stakeholders, that’s a way to differentiate yourself.” And it was a really good workshop for us and also an exercise for us.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Critically the whole lean startup movement is about testing your assumptions right. Some people may say lean startup or agile means we don’t need a roadmap, we don’t need a priority list we just start somewhere and we just go. It’s also worth prioritizing entirely new product ideas.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 17, 2024

She practices thought leadership and leverages her diverse expertise to mentor designers, guide leaders, and provide strategic counsel to startups. Last but not least, this year I gave myself a gift for my birthday it’s called a book about yourself and it’s a very deep self-reflection exercise. Karthik: Very interesting.

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