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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers.

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Scaling Smarter: Rachel Owens on Refining Product-Market Fit and Unlocking Growth

Productside

Scaling a product isnt just about selling moreits about refining product-market fit, unlocking the right growth levers, and making sure your go-to-market strategy actually aligns with what your customers need. Rachel shares how shes helped SaaS products scale from $1M to $10M in a year.

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528: From startup founder to product success and why interacting with people is the big change – with Anya Cheng

Product Innovation Educators

How an AI-powered fashion startup achieved product-market fit Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, we’re joined by Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta, eBay, McDonald’s, and Target, and current founder of the AI-powered fashion startup Taelor.

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511: Product insights from employee #1 after a $2.3 billion exit – with Chris Elmore

Product Innovation Educators

He critiques traditional hierarchies, suggesting they can make it hard for innovative ideas to flow, especially ideas from employees who work closely with customers. A Customer-Focused Approach to Innovation Chris advocates for a broad definition of “customer” that goes beyond just the end-users of a product or service.

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The Problem with Product Market Fit (and What to Use Instead)

Speaker: Daniel Elizalde - Product Executive and Advisor

There is a big problem with the term "product market fit." Launching successful products requires a rare combination of market understanding, iterative development, and a lot of luck. Our role as Product Managers is to eliminate confusion, not add to it.

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504: Market Research for Product Innovation – with Chip Chomyn

Product Innovation Educators

Why market research is product managers’ secret ingredient for successful products Watch on YouTube TLDR Market research is a key part of product development and management. Introduction In the world of product management and innovation, market research is like a compass.

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Customer Research 101: The Complete Guide for SaaS

Userpilot

What happens when you build a product or service around what you think potential customers want, only for them to buy something else? For starters, it shows you dont know your customers well enough. But worse than that, it leads to lower revenue, failed products, and plummeting customer loyalty.

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Product Research 201: The Intermediate Guide to De-Risking Decisions

Bring the voice of the customer into your decisions with product market research. This guide will help you find out how to clearly define your learning objective, create questions to support the objective, build screener questions to get the right audience, and more!

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Power of the Platform: A PM's Path to a Winning Product Experience

Speaker: Marcus Andrews - Director of Product Marketing & Keren Wexler - Sr. Director of Product

Product teams need a complete, end-to-end solution to address their most common challenges. Leveraging a single platform that combines product analytics, in-app guides, and feedback management solutions can be the most effective way to deliver digital experiences users love.

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Product Market Research 101: A Beginner's Guide to Bringing in Consumer Insights

In this eBook, you will learn how to continuously bring the voice of consumers into product and marketing decisions. Find out how to conduct research surveys that will allow you to confirm product-market fit, and build and launch better products. Get your copy today!

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How to Achieve Product-Market Fit

Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook.

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Build Delightful Products with Customer Validation

Speaker: John Little, Head of Product Marketing, Centercode

When it comes to delivering a solid product/market fit, customer validation is key. After all, you want to provide customers with a product that not only fills the need, but is delightful -- right? To get there, you need to commit to a vital blend of market research, strategy, and user testing.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

Only 20% of these companies attain product market fit, despite years of excruciating effort by founders, early employees, and investors. The first and most important step in product development is finding PMF. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit.

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Your Post-Launch Toolkit for Understanding Your Users

Speaker: Brittney Gwynn, former Director of Product, Simple Health

You know that you need to look at how different user segments react, but how do you quickly distinguish signal from noise so you can iterate and improve? In this webinar, Brittney will cover: A range of techniques for gathering customer feedback. The importance of experimentation post-launch.

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Building Products Your Customers Love with Empathy and Human Insights

Speaker: Lija Hogan, Customer Experience Consultant at UserTesting & Daniele Hohol, Senior Product Manager at UserTesting

Product teams are continuously under tight deadlines to quickly validate new ideas, features and offerings to innovate successfully, ensure product market fit, and avoid rework. Without the customer’s perspective these teams often end up wasting time and resources building features that customers don’t use.