Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry. What was amazing about this opportunity is that I got to see lots of technical roles in that short time. Despite working at Microsoft, I always had an itch to try my hand at my own startup.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. Scenario two – startup has a grand idea. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. If you have too many markets, you may have lost focus.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Warm-up exercise (3-5 min).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. ” And in Intercom and elsewhere, we’ve been thinking about what that actually means for startups, for seed-stage companies, all the way through to mid and late-stage companies. I’m joined, as always, by Mr. Paul Adams. Hello Paul.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Or at your performance review, you might wonder what you should start doing to get a promotion, what is blocking you and what you are currently doing that works well. I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help. Read more: Technical Debt & Scrum: Who Is Responsible ?)

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

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 marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 30, 2009

Every startup goes through phases including brainstorming ideas, selecting evaluation criteria, performing due diligence on top ideas, picking a winner, deciding on a corporate structure , putting together the team, evaluating funding options, and more. I'm personally innately curious. Analyzing Macro Trends.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

AUGUST 21, 2018

This was introduced in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams but gained popularity in tech in the early days of the dotcom boom when the players were limited and early adopters eager to experience all the web had to offer. Finding Your Product’s Critical Event(s) By now you have most likely heard the phrase “build it, they will come”.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. Fred Wilson shares this mentality in how he describes the role of the CEO of a startup: A CEO does only three things. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a tech journalist, Kevin has been witnessing the evolution of the tech industry for more than 20 years. And that’s why he co-wrote Play Bigger: How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets with startup advisors Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, and Christopher Lochhead.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

Or at your performance review, you might wonder what you should start doing to get a promotion, what is blocking you and what you are currently doing that works well. I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. Experimenting with your retrospectives.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? A too frequent Sprint Review, for example, every week, tends to wear off quickly, as not much novelty can be provided.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But this is exactly what we do when we try to make our first idea match the customer need we are trying to address, within the technical constraints we encounter, while still managing to deliver the right business results. In his book Testing Business Ideas , David Bland shares an exercise called assumption mapping. Why do we do this?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. out of 5 stars.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. We’re not into B2C, we’re not into IoT, we’re not in health tech; we’re hyper-focused, and that’s also what allowed me to step into this role after being an operator for the last 20 years. Coining sales productivity.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. That team, to me, has gotten a lot more interesting over the last three or four years because of that explosion of automation technology. It’s actually happening a lot faster nowadays than it was a few years ago because of the explosion in tech.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I know that Hope and I hear a lot from the teams that we work with that most product people are really eager and they’re really diligent. It’s typically a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead. We define the trio as this pretty standard template of a product manager, a design leader, and tech lead.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. We’re not into B2C, we’re not into IoT, we’re not in health tech; we’re hyper-focused, and that’s also what allowed me to step into this role after being an operator for the last 20 years. Coining sales productivity.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product managers who work at startups have their work cut out for them. Nowadays, sharpening your startup product manager skills has become more of a priority than they have ever been. Based on startup statistics shared by Embroker , around 90% of startups fail. This is crucial for several reasons.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

In the tech world, there are often many right answers. But this technology doesn’t have to be used for entertainment. But this technology doesn’t have to be used for entertainment. An Israeli startup, Sightful, uses a similar concept of screens displayed in space for another use case — productivity.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. all pointing to a simple fact. Job interviews mean you hire the best actor on the day?—?not

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

The factories are leaving due to lack of educated workforce. I recommend this game as an exercise to all PMs that have already received a feedback about being control freaks. This goes for any game: exercising the mind is definitely an effective way to help you make new mental connections, learn faster and be more creative.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It’s an intensive and fun exercise where you put a thing you’ve built through its paces. By the time their work is finished and ready to ship, they have seen it, thought about it, and reviewed it a thousand times. Still, the Product Manager, Designer, and Tech Lead should be heavily involved. A good bug bash can help.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

(This is a post on its own again, but check out this video in the meantime) Feature Mapping is a scoping exercise to help teams decide the MVP for your product 3. Work with the tech lead on this. Software development is highly unpredictable?

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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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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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

There’s no direct, straight line between a research exercise and the balance sheet. These firms make other tech titans such as Facebook ($7 billion), Oracle ($5.6 For example, many startups don’t have much revenue in their early days, yet most of their spending may be on research and development. billion), and IBM ($4.7

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The performance metric is taken as the bounce rate (provided by the SimilarWeb browser extension) even though the conversion rate would be a better choice technically. Unfortunately this is a limitation due to the unavailability of the conversion data.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. by using case studies, or examples from references with ROI).

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Open 24 hours a day, the site was user-friendly, encouraging browsers to post their own reviews of books and offering discounts, personalized recommendations, and searches for out-of-print books.”. Amazon is a multinational technology company known worldwide as a mega e-commerce marketplace. Britannica.com ). to get a feature done.”.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. In many ways the hardest part of design is the prioritization exercise that requires determining exactly what is above the line for the next release.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

From this exercise, our goal is to understand how close AI is to automating the PM role, and what task areas are most likely to be delegated first. This is a clever use of AI, but I feel that it sells the technology’s capabilities short. We used PM answers from Exponent as the human responses for all three selected tasks.

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