BrainMates

JANUARY 21, 2019

One of my all-time favourite books is The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, in particular, the chapter entitled ‘The Struggle’. I can relate to The Struggle. All of it. Product Leaders will likely find many of the struggles described in the book are just as relatable as the struggles entrepreneurs such as Horowitz’s face. As Horowitz puts in: “The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the job in the first place.

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Oren Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2019

Product Management and Business Development have more in common than you think. When was the last time your PM sat down with your BD? And no, I don’t mean when your PM explained the product so your BD could find the right channels to sell it through. I mean, really sat down to work together, open up and collaborate on everything. If this is not happening regularly, you are missing out on some big opportunities. 1.

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AB Tasty

JANUARY 24, 2019

As more and more people are shopping online, they’re also becoming increasingly skeptical, meaning there’s even more of a chance they will experience cognitive dissonance. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Cognitive Dissonance: How You Can Resolve It And Drive More Conversions.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. It’s an acronym that can be used as a weapon. Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can use the phrase to batter your colleagues’ ideas. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more!

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 22, 2019

Between 40% and 60% of people who sign up for a free trial of your software will never convert. What are you doing with the leads that don’t convert right away? If your answer is “nothing,” you’re leaving money on the table. By instituting a lead nurturing campaign sequence, you can guide those prospects through your buying cycle, from the moment they enter their email address on your website, to successful adoption of your product and beyond.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2019

I've had the opportunity to mentor a breadth of product managers through the years as well as entrepreneurs through my work as an advisor to early-stage startups. And in doing so I've spent countless hours working through product challenges, startup challenges, and everything in between. As I work more closely with each individual, their guard starts to come down, they start to open up, and ultimately become willing to share some of their biggest challenges, uncertainties, and fears holding them

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2019

As 2019 gets underway, I’ve been enjoying taking stock of what we saw at Mind the Product Training over 2018. As a product manager I’m always looking for signals and patterns, and evaluating what early trends could mean for my products, and now for product practice. Noticing early indications of patterns of behavior can help product managers to plan ahead and work specific questions into their learning roadmaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2019

We’re conditioned to think from an early age that exciting things are the best. That attitude can extend to engineering, too. When trying to solve a problem with software, it can be tempting to build an exciting, complex solution. But that unnecessary complexity can lead to even more complicated issues. At our event Building Intercom in Dublin, I argued that when it comes to building software, we should avoid excitement and embrace boring.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 20, 2019

Being a Product Manager is never clear, and never simple. It’s easy to have projects we love, but what happens when the worst, most convoluted project gets dumped in your lap? This talk goes over things you can do to stabilize a project while staying sane. In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Felix Sargent, lead a conversation on this topic.

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Brian Balfour

JANUARY 24, 2019

Superhuman was founded in 2015 (3ish years ago at the time of writing this). From their landing page, they are building “The Fastest Email Experience Ever Made.” To this day, you can still not sign up and instantly gain access to their product. Yet, they have received more press, word of mouth, and funding than 95%+ of other products. Why? Because they've done the exact opposite of what most do for product and feature launches.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. While the product manager is not the manager of the team per se, they are in charge of all critical elements that lead to a team’s success and need to own that responsibility.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Knowing when it’s time to become a platform is a delicate thing, as Mike Kreaden , Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, discovered. Transitioning into an effective marketplace required keen attention to the evolving needs of their customers – who wanted to connect to third-party partners. Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the ma

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 22, 2019

It’s critical to have a robust, yet dynamic product process to produce repeatable success. Learn great approaches to managing all the stages of your product life-cycle from ideas to launch and beyond. Watch as we learn more from product management expert, Alisa Warshawski.

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Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O'Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Miro

JANUARY 23, 2019

User research teams help companies design better products. The field of user research is quite new, and a recent McKinsey study showed that over 40% of the companies surveyed still aren’t talking to their end users during development, despite the fact that it gives a huge advantage to the organizations that want to stay ahead […]. The post UX research reading List: Summer Kim’s top 6 books for researchers appeared first on RealtimeBlog | A blog by RealtimeBoard.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 25, 2019

Learning about product management is not just restricted to the business ecosystem. The sporting world is one of the key platforms where you can gain valuable product management insights and see product leadership dynamics in action. Rather than look at product managers CPOs or CEOs, it’s worth looking to sports leaders for inspiration and a different world view.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2019

Often in software you’ll hear that you get something for free, like “the framework just gives us this for free,” or “if we use X service provider, we get Y for free,” or your developers will tell you “we were building this bit anyway so we get this extra piece for free.”. Nothing is free in software. It’s not free because you’re sitting there talking about it and you’re debating if you should do it.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 24, 2019

Excerpts from our conversation with The Best Product Person of 2017, Melissa Perri. Watch now and see why she is counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. The Best Product Person (TBPP) is the leading international award honoring excellence in Product Management. Established in 2010, TBPP is awarded annually in association with The Product Guy and The Product Group.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 24, 2019

The B2B Product Manager Magazine January 2019 is now available. This month we zero in on an aspect of “team” that often gets overlooked in product management. A few tweaks benefit everyone, including your customers. We also throw in guidelines for telling a better value story and two strategy options for mature products. I hope your 2019 is off to a great start.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 23, 2019

The founder and CEO of NYC-based Motivate Design, Mona Patel , first came to our attention after appearing on another great podcast, Jonathan Courtney and Jake Knapp’s Product Breakfast Club. She spoke about running a scaling an agency, which was interesting – but what really got us was her unique take on the Discovery process. Her Insider Insight process ignores all the traditional things we know about leading questions and ignoring bias – and she claims that it generates re

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2019

Prevention is better than cure – it’s an age old adage that can be applied to the health of your customer churn and retention rates. When should you engage with your customers to prevent churn? If you are waiting for someone to stop logging in, unsubscribe or cancel, you’re too late. Don’t wait until customers stop using your product before doing something about it.

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UserInterviews

JANUARY 23, 2019

Check out our first annual State of User Research Report to learn how UX and product professionals are approaching research, what's working and not, and what inspires them every day.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 23, 2019

As product management goes, so goes the rest of the organization. Here’s a different take on the team aspect of product management and how it strengthens the product management organization along with marketing, sales and customer on-boarding teams. Like the video? Contact us about an onsite Instructor-Led Workshop or check out our On-Demand Training & Certification to learn B2B best practices wherever, whenever.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 24, 2019

Why should teams create outcome/mission based roadmaps, converge on solutions later, focus on the problem-to-solve, experiment, limit planning inventories, avoid chasing story-point velocity, start together, limit handoffs, and [fifty other things]? Plain and simple: you’ll get better near, mid, and long-term business/customer/user/societal outcomes and a sense of impact.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 19, 2019

If you are a great product person looking for a great product job, or vice versa, check out our job board. Thousands of employers across all areas of product, from management to design, from digital to physical, are looking to fill positions from our community. . Each week we highlight some of the recently posted openings. Check out this week’s newest, below….

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 22, 2019

When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality problem. The need to add product management resources probably means your product is succeeding. But, it also means you may be struggling to give your products the strategic attention and expertise they need to continue growing.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2019

Long days and sleepless nights are behind you. Your development team has created a perfect app and one that you hope will be a smash hit on the Google Play and Apple App Store. You feel you’ve created the ultimate onboarding experience that is finally ready for launch. What next? We’re sorry to break it to you but your work is not done yet! The fun is just beginning.

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freshtrax

JANUARY 24, 2019

To enter a new market, understanding people qualitatively and quantitatively and localizing then are keys to success. However, sometimes it is not easy to get insight from outside. So in this article, I as a Japanese person, will cover two of the common characteristics of Japanese people which are: (1) Hesitation to share honest opinion and (2) Long commuting time and how Japanese companies take advantage of these for their businesses and takeaways from them for non-Japanese companies.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 25, 2019

What makes a website beautiful? We rarely stop and analyze why. Do beautiful designs follow the ultimate design rules? The answer: Yes, but you have to know how to spot the recurring visual elements they consist of! In this post you will learn about: The five main visual elements. How to recognize them (with examples). Five tips on how to use them in practice.

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