The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. The reason I’m talking here primarily about startups is that they are much more volatile than larger companies. For startups, this can be the end. We are a startup, after all. And guess what?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. You should therefore strive to keep your product backlog as concise as possible whenever your product faces uncertainty and change—be it market, business, or technology related.

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TurnKey Labs

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Key takeaways: Why startups fail? It’s typically due to one or more key factors, such as a lack of preparation and planning, poor understanding of the target customer’s needs, and/or not developing a product or service that adequately solves customer pain points (which is more commonly known as not achieving “product-market fit”).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). First, the developers create a wheel.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, it’s crucial for product managers, developers, and your entire cross-functional team to examine—and re-examine—the product experience from your user’s point of view and incorporate it into your product strategy. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Market Competence ????? understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. Craft Competence ??

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth. Here I’ll discuss how.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Twitter acquihired entrepreneur types who were ambitious and then gave them responsibility and autonomy to develop new products. Copying can be done in good taste or poor taste.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. Improve on the competition — “Don’t try to create a new market prematurely.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? The initial phases 2 and 3 (the time between startups raising Series A to raising Series B) play a massive role in achieving the 2T3D growth dream.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2019

Without a proper foundation to sustain growth , startups are liable to collapse on themselves. Disconnection within departments Luckily, these problems have solutions, and these solutions can be the key to taking your startup out of growing pains and into the next level of success. So what exactly is the problem?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. Define your marketing personas. To do this it is necessary to create marketing personas that represent your ideal prospect or match your ideal customer profile. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro Branding holds the promise of propelling your venture to new heights, capturing hearts, and securing your place in the market. For startups and product owners, the stakes are high, and the path is treacherous. Time pressure: The urgency to bring a product to market leads to shortcuts.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Also, it helps you make data-driven product development decisions instead of relying on guesswork. Based on the insights, you can inform your future product development. A comprehensive customer needs analysis can help you make data-driven decisions for product design and development. Book a demo now to get started.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. Why Do Most Startups Fail? No Market Need.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. But what product-market fit is, exactly? The market can consist of two crucial components?—?target

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. The #1 reason that startups fail is that they make something nobody wants. We met at a local park.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

“The average app loses 77 percent of its DAUs (Daily Average Users) within the first three days after the install” according to research conducted in late 2018 by Andreessen Horowitz general partner Andrew Chen and mobile intelligence startup Quettra. Develop real personas that reflect your customers. Know Thy Customer—and Thy Enemy.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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Mixpanel

MAY 8, 2023

Growing a digital product and company is a multi-team sport. For marketing teams focused on getting more user traffic and signups, Google Analytics has been the tool of choice. This is why we launched Mixpanel Marketing Analytics.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. I realize we can’t fight the trends in the talent market, but it is dangerous. and during?—?the

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. It helps define the problems you are trying to solve and helps form your product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Here is what I noticed. targeted and user centric.

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