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Product Strategy 101: How to Continue When There Isn’t a Right Answer

The Product Coalition

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. Being very pragmatic, he hates stale discussions and so in almost every meeting we have, he keeps questioning the process that will lead us to the right product strategy. Sounds confusing? The primary reason W.

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Product Strategy Iterations

The Product Coalition

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Product Strategy Lessons From Henry Ford

The Product Coalition

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. Marketing needs to know exactly who the target audience is and what value proposition to talk about. What people usually call strategy is in many cases just a general direction.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. Even higher-level goals can be refined and detailed.

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