First Round Review
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Top startup leaders shared their favorite thought-provoking questions for candidates to ask during an interview to stand out from the crowd and gain in-depth knowledge about the company, the team, and the role.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 20, 2020
As a product leader, you’ve likely been in this situation. The sales team needs one specific feature to close a new opportunity with a large new prospect. Your gut instinct tells you that you’ve done right through customer interviews and competitor research. You have a solid roadmap to execute, and you wonder if maybe the [.]. Read More. The post Negotiating with Sales: A Guide for Product Managers appeared first on Mind the Product.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Product lessons from a meditation app Photo by Le Minh Phuong on Unsplash edited on Photolab.me I was recently reading my post on how to design user registration flows. A couple of thoughts occurred to me. I will illustrate them through using an example. My employer partnered with a meditation app to offer employees a premium subscription for free for a limited period.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 20, 2020
One of our core values at Intercom is “We love people who genuinely want to learn and grow.”. Of course, celebrating and encouraging a growth mindset is all good and well, but how do we put in place structures and processes that actually encourage career growth? In the Engineering org, we’ve thought deeply about how to foster long-term growth opportunities for people.
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
Indicative
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Every company, of every size — even organizations of just one person — are navigating a data avalanche problem. There’s more information on hand than organizations know how to use or manage. Every team — from product to marketing, and IT to engineering — is generating data. A strong analytics stack is foundational to being able to make sense of it all.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Photo by Matt Noble on Unsplash In the 1990s and 2000s, Blockbuster was the nation’s top video rental company, with over 8,000 stores across the globe. By 2010, the company had shuttered all of its stores (except this one you can rent on airbnb). What went wrong? How did Blockbuster go belly up in less than a decade? Blockbuster failed to see (or ignored) the forces shaping its industry and was overtaken by a more innovative challenger (Netflix).
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Today, numerous studies echo this sentiment: a recent report from Forrester found that brands with a superior customer experience bring in 5.7 times more revenue than their competitors. And a recent study from Deloitte found that two-thirds of customers will switch brands entirely due to a poor customer experience. Customer expectations are higher than ever, and this acts as a forcing function, inspiring companies to think about their customers’ entire journey from acquisition to onboardin
Product Management University
OCTOBER 21, 2020
The whole point of creating a sales playbook is to give your sales team “situational sales tools” that make them highly effective in every part of the sales process. The end game is a shorter sales process where you’re the clear choice. Here are five staples that should make the shortlist in every sales playbook. The Playbook: 1. The Product Overview. “Can you give me an overview of your products/services?
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Back in 2016, I was working with the product organization of a larger tech company. They asked me to help every product manager on the team “understand the role of the product manager better,” and to help the product managers understand what “better” would actually look like. This was not an easy challenge and, although [.]. Read More. The post The PMwheel – a Compass for the Product Manager Development Journey appeared first on Mind the Product.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 19, 2020
The rift between traditional learning and online learning continues to grow as technology makes inroads in our daily lives. The corona virus pandemic has forced learners across industries to take to online learning, with schools and universities being shut down for the foreseeable future. The advantages of online learning are many; that said, the jury is out on which learning process emerges as the victor in the online training vs traditional training battle.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Maya Angelou, the poet and civil rights activist, said it best: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”. That’s a universal truth, but one businesses forget about at their peril. The feelings customers take away from an experience with your company are far more important than any “response time” metric.
Product Management University
OCTOBER 20, 2020
The B2B Product Manager October 2020. The product led growth model is gaining tremendous momentum. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. It’s big, or maybe that’s just the way it should have always been. As most companies deal with leaner sales pipelines, your product demos are even more critical to making the shortlist.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Performance reviews, evaluations, or appraisals are awful, and we need more of them. it’s time to recognize the need for Product teams to evaluate themselves based on the performance reviews of their products. This is meant to establish the mindset that in order to evaluate a Product Manager’s and Product Team’s performance it’s not about [.]. Read More.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Symmetrical landing page structures which popular web-building tools offer may not always deliver the conversion you expect if you do not understand the mechanisms behind them. Photo by ?? ?? on Unsplash Background Try recalling your recent visits to landing pages which are trying to sell you something. Chances are, your mind would register a rather common page structure where you would see an impressive “hero image” and a slew of sales-centric information before a final “call-to-action” button
First Round Review
OCTOBER 20, 2020
In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways to drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework and set of case studies for accelerating in each lane.
Product Innovation Educators
OCTOBER 19, 2020
How product managers can create product names that make people smile. Not many product managers get involved in naming products, and that is a mistake. If you were involved during the initial idea work and problem solving—creating a product concept that fulfills customers’ unmet needs—then you have valuable insights for the product name. You can be a great brainstorming resource to help Marketing or a naming consulting. .
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 21, 2020
“People are hard.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. As product managers, we have to deal with demanding, unreasonable people who hold us to unrealistic standards and want everything delivered yesterday – and as a parent, you have to deal with stakeholders and team members [.].
Speaker: Paul Heller
Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 18, 2020
A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. On your way there, there are many potential weak links that can prevent it from happening. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. In the beginning, you reveal the bigger things that need to change in your current strategy (for example, some companies I work with understand that they need to solve a differen
UserInterviews
OCTOBER 22, 2020
How experience, type of role, and company size play into how much UX researchers make.
Gainsight
OCTOBER 22, 2020
1. Tell us a bit about yourself and what your role is at Gainsight. I’m responsible for Product Management and Technical Communications. As one team, we provide relevant guidance to users when they need it, whether it is through documentation or inside the product. With a finance background, I am focused on developing our Revenue Optimization solutions, which connects Customer Success to revenue. . 2.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 20, 2020
“People are hard.” That’s what Mind the Product co-founder Janna Bastow said in her keynote speech at #mtpcon in 2017. As product managers, we have to deal with demanding, unreasonable people who hold us to unrealistic standards and want everything delivered yesterday – and as a parent, you have to deal with stakeholders and team members [.].
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.
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 17, 2020
As many of us digital designers generally know, UX means ‘user experience,’ which focuses on how something works and how people use it. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 21, 2020
We are delighted to announce new additions to our product, customer base, and leadership team, as well as a refresh of our brand! This week, we are hosting our 2020 Product Excellence Summit – a virtual event featuring a panel of product thought leaders and a global audience of 3000+ product professionals. Besides kicking off the very first conference in Productboard history, we have some other.
Strategyzer
OCTOBER 18, 2020
In a recent workshop we hosted with close to 100 participants, we asked participants “what organisational problems, obstacles, and risks are preventing you from successfully testing business ideas”? One of the biggest pains iterated by most participants was the lack of time. Most corporate innovation teams we work with are often from multiple disciplines, building and testing an idea on top of their existing workload.
Mind the Product
OCTOBER 22, 2020
In this AMA session, exclusively for MTP Leaders, Nate Walkingshaw reveals some of the tough leadership lessons he learned early on in his career, how to build and scale a culture of trust, and why he wishes we’d all stop using the word ‘failing’ If you missed it, you can watch the whole session again, [.]. Read More. The post Building And Scaling Empowered Teams: AMA With Nate Walkingshaw appeared first on Mind the Product.
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The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I recently came across this article on “ Eigenquestions ” which speaks about the idea of identifying the most important question when looking to make a decision or taking on an initiative (“the question where, if answered, it likely answers the subsequent questions as well”). This got me thinking about ways to frame questions that can help busy PMs quickly get to the root of the matter.
ProductBoard
OCTOBER 21, 2020
I founded Productboard five years ago with a simple mission: to help companies build products that matter, together. Five years may not seem like much, but in the hyper-growth world of startups, it’s a long time. In those five years, we’ve grown from a tiny startup with a handful of people to an established, globally recognized company. Earlier this year, we closed our $45 million Series B.
Mixpanel
OCTOBER 20, 2020
This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Since 2002, they have helped both scale-ups and large enterprises achieve their conversion, engagement, and retention goals. Simply put, data is at the core of good product management. But making the most of the data that organizations collect is a process that’s often hindered by unnecessary complexity.
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