Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer. Customers dont care about data structures. Why Storyboarding Works A storyboard is just a sequence of visuals that shows how a user moves from a problem to a solution. Run it by a few customers. Not a persona.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For this edition of Product in Practice, were not talking with a product manager, a designer, a UX researcher, or even an engineer. helps its customers monetize their passion and skills and reach their audiences with their own app. During their experience we have to ensure they stay engaged through customer success and support.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

“I get that the continuous discovery habits framework works well for mature products, but does it work for early-stage startups?”. I spent all of my full-time employee experience at early-stage startups (many of them pre-product) and I relied on these same habits to figure out what to build. This question always surprises me.

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Lenny Rachitsky

OCTOBER 10, 2024

” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users. ” NotebookLM started as a 20% project and has grown into a product that’s spreading across social media and has a Discord server with over 60,000 users.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products. ” The responses were revealing.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Think of Net Promoter Score (NPS) software as a tool to measure your customers’ feelings about your product, and categorize them based on their level of loyalty (promoters, neutrals, and detractors). Userpilot is a product growth platform that can collect customer feedback directly within your product.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

I’m going to take a wild guess and assume that you already understand the importance of mobile in-app feedback tools. You might already have a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program in place that you’re looking to improve, or perhaps you’re just trying to get started. Now, more than ever, your customers want to be heard.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

However, they suggest that we can simply ask our customers about their willingness to pay. Assessing a customer’s willingness to pay is a critical discovery activity that directly ties to our viability assumptions. But asking customers what they might do in the future leads to unreliable feedback. They fit well.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR. When pitching early ideas, pay attention to specific actions customers want to take, like asking about pricing or requesting to start a proof of value (POV).

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Productside

MARCH 18, 2025

The biggest showdown in product management is BACK and this time, its all about the most promising startups. Welcome to Product PickEm 2025 , where the best emerging product tool startups go head-to-head in a bracket-style competition, and YOU decide which ones rise to the top via our LinkedIn polls on the Productside page.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 21, 2024

Whenever I introduce the topic of customer interviews (the foundational element of continuous discovery ), I get a lot of questions about who counts as a customer. Tweet This Ask Teresa: Who counts as a customer? Customers can vary depending on your company and product. Tweet This Let’s look at a few common scenarios.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

BMC components Customer segments: Different groups of people or organizations that your business aims to serve. Value propositions : The products or services that create value for each customer segment. Channels: How your company communicates with and reaches its customer segments to deliver the value proposition.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Many of these approaches are intended as reasonable defaults; they are my opinions, they aren’t rules, and they certainly won’t fit every situation. Corey works with his customers on reducing their AWS bills, and he’s seen large numbers of cloud architectures in practice, so I think he’s a pretty good source on this.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The most important journey any new product goes through is finding product/market fit. Marc Andreessen, who popularized the term, defined it as: Product/market fit means being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market. From Viddy to Quibi to Google Wave, we can all name famous product failures.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2024

They allow you to close the gap between your analytics data and the feedback you get from users. Well, I reviewed 40 session recording options in the market and handpicked the top 10 for startups, mid-market companies, and enterprises to review. No free trial, but custom demos are available. PostHog Open-source.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product-market fit (PMF) is a tricky thing for startups. It’s that sweet spot where the needs of your target market perfectly align with what your product is offering, and if you’re a product manager at an early startup, it’s your job to help your product find that fit. but nothing around how to measure it.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Customer feedback is overwhelming , making it hard to separate signal from noise. Communicate trade-offs clearly by tying product decisions to business objectives and user outcomes. Lack of habit formation Users dont build a routine around the product. Stakeholders request features that dont align with core strategy.

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brikker (anonymized), a children’s toy manufacturing startup, was like a hamster on a wheel. Customer acquisition costs were soaring… Engagement was waning… Investors were worrying… The team knew they needed a strategic pivot and fast, as they estimated they had 6 months of funding left to work with. Going nowhere fast.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Today we are talking about how Lean Startup can be used at large organizations. He has helped many large companies implement innovation practices including Lean Startup and has written the book on the topic, titled Lean Startup in Large Organizations. 1:13] What are the key principles of Lean Startup?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Depending on who you ask, the answer will vary depending on what they genuinely know or understand about consumers.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

The foundation of continuous discovery is weekly touchpoints with customers. It sounds simple, but what happens if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet? What do you do about discovery if your product is so new that you don’t have any customers yet?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You see, although we work hard to make Userpilot the best product adoption tool on the market, we know it isnt the perfect fit for every business. You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!).

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want • Enterpret —Transform customer feedback into product growth — Michael Margolis has been a UX research partner at Google Ventures (GV) for nearly 15 years.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. What does the company do and who are your main customers?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We’re zooming in on one aspect of discovery: automating the recruiting process for customer interviews. You may want to speak with existing customers or users. You might want to speak with former or prospective customers. Mohamed’s team runs continuous discovery with different customer segments.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches. Lets dive in.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Customizing my recruiting process Before we get into my portfolio criteria, here’s some brief context on our company and what’s important to us so you can see how you might customize your own hiring criteria. Our product is also consumer-facing (donors and recipients). I’m always curious to learn more from the larger community.

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