Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Achieving and Scaling Product-Market Fit: A Guide for Product Managers in Mid-to-Large Tech Companies Introduction As product managers in mid-to-large technology companies, you’re no stranger to the challenges of maintaining and scaling product-market fit (PMF).

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

The hardest part of bringing a new product to market is always the elusive hunt for product/market fit. Marc Andreessen describes product/market fit as "being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market". The experience of failing on Anywhere.FM

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. During my dealings with investors and product veterans, I’ve often heard that you can always feel when product/market fit is happening. How Many Customers Leave and How Soon?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Today, customers have a lot more choice when it comes to discovering product options independently, and they’ll only interact with a vendor’s sales team when they’re ready. The beauty of the freemium model in an enterprise setting is that the supplier due diligence process is already much further along. Crowning the customer.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s hard to be a product without a strong theory of distribution Here’s a common startup situation. A team busts their ass for months building the first version of their product. Now a big question emerges — how do you get the first people to use your product? It’s almost done.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This is a problem I see not just with tech entrepreneurs but also on a regular basis with product managers at the B2B companies we work with at SiriusDecisions. If I had to make a blanket statement, it’s that most founders and product managers don’t listen enough to customers or iterate enough based on customer feedback.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How 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. Steve Jobs.

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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. I wanted my scope to be larger across an entire product. And I did exactly that.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either. He is a few years out of school and interested in getting into product. He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s become passionate about technology and wants to make a career switch. Work at a startup.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

Product Can you tell if your product is on the right track? It’s easy to answer whether you have a product/market fit: can the revenue your customers pay for your product sustain (or even grow) your business? But how can you know whether your market-fit is strong enough, or if you’re focusing on the right audience?

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 5, 2024

It’s free, available to everyone, and if you can pull off a great launch, Product Hunt can change your startup’s growth trajectory. However, the little-known truth is that of the thousands of startup founders who try their hand at Product Hunt each week, very few see any impact.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

But one of the major concepts you absolutely need to get your head around is Product-Market Fit. If you don’t do your research, and understand how your product fits into the market (see what we did there?) What Exactly is Product-Market Fit? How Do I Know if I Have No Product-Market Fit?

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Mind the Product

JULY 14, 2020

Nandini Jammi started out in product marketing and growth, but after the US elections in 2016, her career took an unexpected turn when she joined Sleeping Giants, an organisation that aims to make bigotry and sexism less profitable. In this episode of The Product Experience, sponsored by Amplitude, learn how to apply this ethos to [.].

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Modus Create

JULY 2, 2021

If you’ve ever worked in a successful early-stage startup, you must be familiar with the euphoria of the first signs of growth. It’s one thing to validate your idea in the market. Many startups struggle to carry the momentum of the initial growth spurt. . So, why do most startups struggle to scale? Ignoring Data Security.

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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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Innovatemap

MARCH 17, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to work with countless technology companies in my career, and while I met with an incredible number of women executives, CEOs, marketers and more, I most often saw myself in a room among men. The tech industry (and many industries, for that matter) has a long history of gender inequality. percent in 2019.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. While many of us are familiar with the uphill battle and the grind involved in getting traction and any growth towards product/market fit, the launch and growth phases represent a small fraction of the overall life of a product. Product Lifecycle.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Today’s rising borrowing costs and dipping public markets are putting a squeeze on startup fundraising. If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important.

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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

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to the market, promoting it, and selling it to customers.

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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. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 17, 2018

“Things would be much better at a startup…” It turns out that?—?just people at a startup don’t automatically have a common understanding of their products’ value propositions either. And lack of alignment at a startup is more painful, especially in early stages when you are looking for that elusive product-market fit.

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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. If it’s your new product line, what do we have to believe?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

. * Chat to us on Twitter or in our dedicated Mind the Product #podcast Slack channel. Review us on your podcast app so that we can use your feedback to be better. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Like our theme music? It’s Hamburg-based Pau , featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s Arne Kittler!

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

is the CPO of a startup in transition. Ideas need to sink in, some research is due, and there is a natural evolution process until everything falls into place. In fact, the lean startup approach says that there will always be a better one around the corner, but you must take the turn first to see it. Sounds confusing?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

This is why some product leaders during the later stages of their careers, when they have increased levels of autonomy, make self-centric product decisions, such as changing the location or color of a button in the middle of a design review – based on what makes sense to them. They never unlearned being self-centric.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 15, 2025

De-risking your 2025 initiatives Why every intelligent app must start with a PoC By Jill Antweiler Posted in Product Published on: January 15, 2025 Last update: January 15, 2025 As we settle into 2025, many executives are eyeing ambitious initiatives to leverage new technologies and drive innovation. But they come with increased risks.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

A Product Framework from Concept to Delivery: Part 1 Why “FE²AR” As a technology executive, I have seen my share of successful and not-as-successful products. The best products fail nowadays due to a lack of consideration of Ecosystems, an example that I will walk through in Part 2 of this article.

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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 Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Since my current company is in very early stages (pre-product market fit), I personally look over each designer’s portfolio before I or others on my team interview them. Our product is also consumer-facing (donors and recipients). I’m always curious to learn more from the larger community.

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