Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

In this SiriusDecisions blog post , I share some insights from our research, including whether product managers and marketers felt they had a consistent process for understanding, prioritizing and applying needs, and what their roles and responsibilities were for uncovering needs. This is shaping up to be a very busy spring!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you’re just dealing with tough market conditions, the situation is different but the conclusion is quite similar: When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. What had changed?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 3) How should I go about solving it?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

It is ideal for collaborative brainstorming and marketing strategy alignment for product managers and marketing teams. Understanding this distinction through effective product market research helps you better identify competitors and position your product. The strengths and weaknesses of each differ.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

Latest studies note that only 35% of product manager roles are filled by women, and most of those roles are entry-level positions, meaning they are often removed from influential decision making. Meanwhile, if you’re looking to start or advance your career in product management, check out AWIP’s job board. Let’s dive in.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

We’re delighted to announce our first three speakers, who will share their unique insights on building products in SaaS, how to be more creative and innovative, and how to change enterprise culture; Tickets are on sale now! At Macromedia she was responsible for new products and businesses that leveraged the Flash Player.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. You can read her writing on ProductTalk.org.

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Good Product Manager

MARCH 29, 2016

In this SiriusDecisions blog post , I share some insights from our research, including whether product managers and marketers felt they had a consistent process for understanding, prioritizing and applying needs, and what their roles and responsibilities were for uncovering needs. This is shaping up to be a very busy spring!

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2019

After leaving the Navy and working on nuclear submarines, Dan Olsen embarked on a career that has spanned enterprises and start-ups, consulting, speaking, writing, and running the Lean Product & Lean UX meetup. He joined us to talk about product/market fit: what it is, how to know when you have it, and how to achieve it.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume. The products are easy to use and provide immediate results for customers. Make sense of your data.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. I had already been blogging for a while when she was born, so some of you might remember me writing about how I applied product management practices in the many decisions I needed to make around her birth , for example.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. Product Team Roles.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. When you are product-led, the company had decided that it is going to grow by selling the same product to each customer. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. Why product management is essential to business success. They are product driven but not in the sense of developing products and then finding customers for the products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. 2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Have you heard this before as a product manager? When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? Why does everything take so long to build?

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Bain Public

JUNE 28, 2019

When sales return with this type of feedback, they set about managing the product. So how does a product manager manage that friction? We decided to sit down with Robert Roseberry , Founder, Revenue Growth Expert and Sales Coach at Sales Achievements to discuss the friction points between sales and product teams.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Build persona foundations from research In the spring of 2022, I had recently joined Mixpanel and was tasked with solving “our enterprise adoption problem.” For even more qualitative data here, we use an automated enterprise Slack channel. This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for.

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The Product Bistro

MAY 17, 2016

While it is not strictly a product management responsibility to define and implement a sales strategy, you likely do have a seat at the table during the discussions, and with it, some influence. Unless you are a large seller, a bit distributor like Element 14 isn’t going to be able to put that attention on your products.

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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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Amplitude

MAY 15, 2018

Like almost all product managers, Sam Goertler did not study product management in school. Her path turned from product marketing to product management. Name : Sam Goertler Current role : Lead Product Manager at theSkimm Location : New York City One word to describe how you PM : Fearlessly.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

For example, when companies say that they want to start selling to enterprises, everybody nods. But while both could be considered enterprises, companies with 1,000 to 10,000 employees usually have very different needs than those with 10,000 employees and up. Next week I’ll talk about how to address them.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

By bringing in new, innovative technology, we can deliver a product that customers are truly happy with. We should sell our product to the largest enterprises out there since they are the only ones who can afford the price we want to charge for it. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

And so, when we were answering RFIs and RFPs (long requirement documents that large enterprises request vendors to fully answer before they start testing their products) there was almost always a question asking whether or not we supported this capability. I wanted to be able to say yes. I’m a big believer in open communication.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. Better Products. Better Product People. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

While the ideal PLG model means no-touch sales (that is, no human interaction happens as part of the sales process and the customer simply purchases the product on their own), many successful PLG companies have sales teams. Large enterprise deals tend to close better when there is a person involved, but we need to understand exactly why.

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