Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Despite their hefty news coverage, it’s not just startups that are landing major funding in the U.S. According to Fundz , the mean Series A funding round in 2021 so far is around $22.3 million, thanks largely to “mega-rounds” from somewhat established biotech companies. More common numbers are represented in the median early stage financing numbers (Series A and B) at around $8 million.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 30, 2021

Is there any good reason not to have a regular cadence of product manager job rotation with customer success managers? I can’t think of a single one. On the other hand, there are five good reasons why it should happen as a standard operating procedure and three benefits that go beyond both roles. 5 Reasons for Product Manager Job Rotation. 1. Product Managers Are Starting Their Careers in a Huge Deficit.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Continuous discovery is more of a journey than a destination. You can pick up the habits and fold them into your daily practice, but there will always be room for improvement. Plus, your work environment is always changing, so you’ll constantly need to adapt to your current settings and stakeholders. If your sales team isn’t bought in, for example, they won’t want to sell your new product or feature.

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The opportunity to connect with customers has never been greater than when you’re in their pockets. In-app messages help you gather feedback, solve customer problems, and stay on the pulse of customer sentiment in a way other forms of customer messaging cannot. Through in-app messages, you’re able to hear about problems before they make it to the app stores, respond to customers with two-way conversations, and build relationships with your customers through in-app support.

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Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

Product Management

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 31, 2021

We’re excited to announce that you can now send transactional messages using Intercom, empowering you to send all your customer messages from one easy-to-use platform. And because it’s Intercom, we’ve reimagined what “transactional messaging” looks like. In addition to email, you can now choose from a range of conversational message types – like push notifications, in-product messages, banners – so you can engage and inform your customers in the right place, at the right time, using the channel

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 30, 2021

Driven by new global food trends, the flavor industry has grown towards organic and natural ingredients. Ever-changing guest interests lead to demands for the flavor market. Flavor industry: Market overview The global flavor market has experienced dramatic growth in the food & beverage sector in the past few years. The flavor industry has chiefly been influenced by the food consumption of various food and beverages.

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Jay McBain

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Out of the 14 different spheres of influence that we track at Forrester, the channel industry trade press ranks near the top. Smart vendors and distributors know that the magic of finding, influencing, recruiting, enabling, and nourishing a top performing channel boils down to three simple questions about partners: What do they read? Where do […].

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

At Intercom, we believe the best products are built with the market in mind. That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . This isn’t always the case across the industry. Product marketing looks different in every company, but one common trend is that many product marketing managers (PMMs) feel undervalued.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2021

The HiPPO — the “Highest Paid Person’s Opinion” Over the years, we’ve published content about these creatures — how to train your HiPPO, how to manage your HiPPO — and across the wider web, you’ll find endless posts coming at the topic from the same angle. It’s never particularly positive. For that reason, we’re winding [.

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First Round Review

AUGUST 31, 2021

Nick Caldwell's resume includes an enviable list of companies — Microsoft, Reddit, Looker and Twitter. He shares his biggest lessons from each for a crash course in finding success across different company cultures, scales & functions.

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TryMyUI

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Usability tests are a great way to gain knowledge about your customers and clients, which helps marketing teams make higher targeted copy for ads and SEO blogging. The post Why Every Company Needs Usability Testing appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 31, 2021

As the Head of Analytics at Instamojo , an e-commerce enabler that provides e-commerce solutions to over 1.5 million micro- to medium-sized businesses in India, Ankur Sharma is in charge of all things data—data engineering, strategy, and core data analytics. In this interview, he spoke to us about what’s in Instamojo’s data stack and the philosophy behind it.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 31, 2021

Every month, product experts from around the world share their ideas and insights in our Prioritised and MTP Leader content and every month we recap some of their finest tips. So, whether you’re a member who’d love a quick recap or a non-member who’d love a glimpse inside some of our membership content, we’ve got you covered. [.

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First Round Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Zoom’s Jane Davis answers all of your tricky customer development questions, creating a highly tactical guide for founders flying solo on UX research as they explore startup ideas, validate concepts, iterate on prototypes, and troubleshoot common product problems.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 29, 2021

As product management becomes more popular and more professional, there have been an increasing number of folks who may want to look elsewhere. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Benny Reich.

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Nir Eyal

AUGUST 29, 2021

The post Stop Thinking About Your Bad Habits! [Do This Instead.] appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

After seven years working in product, I had the opportunity to become People Manager. Using the skills and knowledge I got over the years working with products, I framed this change in familiar terms that helped me in the transition: SWOT analysis, Vision, Product Lifecycle, Market fit… Whether you’re considering taking a similar step in [.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2021

What, how, and where you communicate the latest changes for your SaaS can be a massive source of user engagement. That's where using a release notes template can help you consistently show your users how to get more value out of your product. Think about it — would you rather sign up for a product that has detailed documents for every release or one where you're always left wondering what's new or what bugs have been fixed?

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Dragonboat

AUGUST 30, 2021

Imagine this… You’re a new product operations manager joining a company that’s reached product-market fit, has a few product managers, and a brand new Chief Product Officer who wants to move away from feature-based roadmapping to outcome-driven roadmaps. You’ve read Marty Cagan’s books, “Inspired” and “Empowered” and are now trying to figure out how to […].

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TSIA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While XaaS value propositions are different from traditional value propositions, product management practices continue to follow the traditional approach in cloud native and newly transitioned XaaS businesses. The popular frameworks for assessing value and prioritizing the product roadmap make no distinction of or accommodation for the differing business models.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In this ProductTank London talk, Alison Hickson, head of product at Linktree, talks about the changes she made as she moved from being an external product manager to becoming an internal product manager. She shares some tips to help product managers understand and thrive in an internal product manager role. Watch the video to see [.] Read more » The post Sharpening your product craft as an international product manager by Alison Hickson appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Looking for some SaaS Product Marketing examples you could implement to drive growth for your product ? There are some best practices you need to follow when it comes to a SaaS marketing strategy that works – it's not enough to simply copy-paste what other SaaS companies are doing. In this article, I've included both the SaaS marketing best practices and 19 best SaaS marketing examples to illustrate how others do it.

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ProductBoard

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s well known that companies struggle to get the dynamic right between product and engineering. Pulling from their years of experience in technical leadership, Andrew Lau, CEO and Co-Founder of Jellyfish, and Srinivas Krishnamurti (“SK”), Head of Product at Productboard, divulged their thoughts during a fireside chat on what works and (what doesn’t) when it comes to fostering productive.

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DevelopmentCorporate

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The Minimal Viable Product (MVP) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021. The concept was introduced by Frank Robinson in 2001. Steve Blank expanded on it in 2005 with the Customer Development Methodology. In 2011 Eric Reis popularized the MVP concept in his book The Lean Startup. Since 2001 there have been several attempts to improve on the core MVP concept.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sunsetting a product, poor performance, telling leadership something they won’t want to hear — these are all tricky conversations that many of us have to have. Difficult conversations come with the territory when you’re a product leader, so what’s the best way to handle them? In this post, we’re guided by Denise Jacobs, the author [.] Read more » The post 5 difficult conversations and how to have them appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Sr. Staff Product Manager of Data & AI at BILL (Previously PM Lead at Twitter/X)

Embark on a transformation journey into the heart of the data ecosystem! This webinar is your gateway to a deeper comprehension of the foundations that drive the data industry and will equip you with the knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape. Delve into the diverse use cases where data analytics plays a pivotal role. We’ll explore how these applications are transforming with the introduction of Gen AI, and discuss the anticipated use cases for 2024 and beyond.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2021

“Invite Teresa Torres. But she won’t agree to speak” – My manager told me in February 2020, one month into my adventure with Userpilot. I was only just starting to think about the first edition of Product Drive. A second later, I was frantically Googling “Teresa Torres”. Yup, she won’t agree to speak for us – I decided. So I didn’t even dare to try asking her.

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ProductBoard

AUGUST 31, 2021

At Productboard, we believe that customers (and their pains, underlying goals and motivations, prior knowledge, and mental models) should be at the heart of the product roadmapping process. Yet, 50% of product teams feel that their roadmaps are outdated and don’t reflect user needs, leading to products that miss the mark. Enter Productboard. With Productboard, customers are always at the center of.

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TSIA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While XaaS value propositions are different from traditional value propositions, product management practices continue to follow the traditional approach in cloud native and newly transitioned XaaS businesses. The popular frameworks for assessing value and prioritizing the product roadmap make no distinction of or accommodation for the differing business models.

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