The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 19, 2021

Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Unify data and simplify partner integrations with enterprise-class security and reliability. Supporting tech.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

It takes a village to successfully manage a product and as a product manager, you will become the central hub within your company for a lot of critical information about your products, market, clients, competitors and prospects. Her first love was technology, which led her to study software engineering at UCT.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

About The Product Mentor. 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. View the live stream….

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Guest Post by: Stef Orzech (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Alex Berman]. So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. But rather than pressing for answers, my tech lead simply sat back in his chair and shrugged. “Ah, What do you mean?”

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

Here are some thoughts on company-wide structural differences and how we product managers get our work done. It’s a more precise, if less emotional, version of a May talk for Lean Product/UX SV meetup. What’s Enterprise? Another fuzzy line divides SMB (small/medium businesses) from enterprises.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

About The Product Mentor. 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. View the live stream….

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

While this probably sounds like common sense, I’ve seen more than one organisation trying to get more done by throwing people at a product. No wonder that the individuals struggled and the product suffered. Another great way to reduce the need to scale is launching a minimum viable product (MVP). 2 Don’t Scale Prematurely.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. But I find they don’t map well to enterprise companies.

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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! The post Innovation, SaaS, and Enterprise: Announcing the First Three Speakers for #mtpcon London!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? First, a clear view of the primary and secondary products and services in a channel partner’s portfolio is needed. You also need to understand: How these products and services are delivered.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Product roadmaps are overloaded with significance and are a source of uncertainty among product managers. Product lifecycle context : During development and introduction you’ll likely be focused on prioritising core features. During retirement you’ll be balancing the closure of your product with the needs of remaining users.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. Counter-positioning. Yet they were extremely slow to do so.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2022

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

They go from planning one product to the next, foregoing the opportunity to establish fundamental product instincts, which only develop after managing the same product for an extended period of time. They never accumulated any substantial product management scar tissue. They never unlearned being self-centric.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2021

Which product analytics tools should you be using? And what type of analytics really matters for a product marketing manager? Some analytic tools are confusing, some are difficult to use, and some are downright irritating, making it hard to access the product growth insights you need. How many analytics tools do you need?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Using Lenny’s Newsletter research, what is good retention for a consumer product? Include CSAT scores from top technology companies. Include NPS scores from top technology companies. Explain the product-market-fit survey by Rahul Vohra c. Doing market research 12. Understanding technical jargon 24.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Photo by Alexei on Pxhere A few months after I joined Twiggle as the VP of Product, the CEO gave me a list of competitors to review. The reason we didn’t see them in any of our POCs was because they were targeting a different market segment. I’m sure that your product, too, has a generic list of competitors.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s  An incremental paid user or paid transaction is 95% margin after sales commissions and a small set-aside for technical support. [If  A very big difference.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. Doug: Here’s a little background on Emergence: we are hyper-focused on B2B enterprise SAAS companies. After Oracle, I left and I started my own technology company, and it was eye opening to really understand what it takes to actually build a company.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

About The Product Mentor. 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. View the live stream….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

About The Product Mentor. 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. View the live stream….

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. Doug: Here’s a little background on Emergence: We are hyper focused on B2B enterprise SAAS companies. After Oracle, I left and I started my own technology company, and it was eye opening to really understand what it takes to actually build a company.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

All product managers share a base, common skillset, which includes problem-solving, strategic thinking, and empathy for others. The different specialization categories: core product manager, growth product manager, technical product manager, platform product manager, and innovation product manager.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One Deep dives into obscure technical requirements isn’t the fastest path to a signature.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

TL;DR A user persona is a fictional character representing a user type based on user research to ensure user-centered product design. Methods include in-app surveys , user interviews, user behavior data, reviews, and market research tools. User persona : Useful for product development and user experience design.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

After reviewing over 50 candidates, 25 phone interviews, and 15 full interviews, I eventually had to choose between a few final contenders. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

Smart Glasses are the latest craze in the world of wearable tech. We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. However, it is important to note that the market for these products is still unproven. How can an oil company pivot to technology? Reliance Jio Glass.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having spent several years playing both Marketing and Product Management roles, I can confidently suggest that every Product Manager who wants to make a significant impact on the overall success of the business should switch to Product Marketing roles several times in his career. It happened with me too.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After the overnight success of Chat OpenAI, it’s no wonder predictions related to using AI and machine learning to increase our understanding of user behavior , greater automation of low-level tasks , and GPT-4 dominate Product Managers’ and Marketers’ projections for the upcoming year. – adds Andrea.

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