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). a skateboard.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One thing above all makes a successful startup: people who purchase and love the product. If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). But how come it’s so challenging to reach success as a startup?

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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.

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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. And how to achieve it?

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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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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. 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).

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. How to obtain product judgment. Product Judgment does exist, and it is learned. It is not innate. This is not enough.

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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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Usersnap

MAY 19, 2022

Think of product-market fit (PMF) as sailing: the product is the sail and demand is the wind. For the boat to work or to make your dreams come true, you need to build a sail (product) and find the wind to power it (or satisfy the needs of the market, and its potential customers). Everyone is going to love it.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2016

Every startup I've worked at folks have lamented about how there were never enough resources to accomplish everything they wanted to. Whether it was not enough engineers to build the desired features, not enough designers to design those experiences, not enough marketers to drum up interest, or not enough salespeople to generate revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. Chaos Report 2015. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. to Close.com.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable. To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. 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.

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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 Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

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, and rightfully so. It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I was then told I need to understand product market fit , if I was to truly appreciate how the lean model is applied throughout the product lifecycle. And to that end, one of my biggest objections to many of the products on the market today, is that there is no discernable difference between them.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 22, 2019

When you find yourself wondering if it’s time to scale your product team, you have what we’d call a high-quality problem. The need to add product management resources probably means your product is succeeding. 3 Signs it’s Time to Scale your Product Team. And it worked.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In this post, we’re going to provide you with the best Product Marketing tools for each Product Marketing Job-To-Be-Done – which are critical for allowing your product marketers to do their work independently from your dev team or graphic designers! Conversational Marketing : Intercom.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Understand the reasons behind their pricing decisions – whether they focus on premium pricing to convey exclusivity or competitive pricing to capture more market share. Conduct a SWOT analysis Perform a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis for each competitor. Create a competitive analysis report template.

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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. In the case of someone like a Software product manager, this may prove challenging.

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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. How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management? Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Being sales-led or product-led is a strategic decision of the company, that goes all the way up to the very basic business model you are betting your success on. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. The superpower became a weakness. And if your product is so innovative that you are aiming to create a new category as many startups do, it’s even worse.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. Why is product positioning important? The sales team could be a good source of information.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2016

One aspect of startups that the ecosystem is getting better at is designing our startups for learning from our customers to find product/market fit. But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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