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Forget Virality, Selling Enterprise Software Is Still Old School | TechCrunch

Editor's note: Roman Stanek is CEO and founder of GoodData. Lately, in Silicon Valley and its counterparts around the world, disappointment has ruled the halls of companies that had a huge impact with consumers, but then fizzled as investments when they went public—Facebook’s…

What are the best ways to prioritize a list of product features? - Quora

When Growth Hacking Goes Bad | TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz-backed music lyrics and annotations Rap Genius was the latest to stray over to the darker side of so-called "growth hacking," with its spammy SEO tactics disguised as an affiliate program. Called out, exposed and now punished by Google, the site's traffic has…

A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit - Tribe Capital

A overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.

Personalization Is Not A Feature | TechCrunch

We’ve all watched from the sidelines as companies have come out in a burst of glory, and then, two years later, spent their venture capital, lost their user base, and failed to monetize. This begs the question - what are the factors that drive a company’s survival, differentiate…

What distinguishes the Top 1% of product managers from the Top 10%? - Quora

Features Tell, But Benefits Sell - Help Scout

Founders and marketers must go beyond selling products, and instead sell what their product will allow customers to do.

Customer-Channel Fit: How to Identify the Right B2B SaaS Marketing Channels

A deep dive into our process for identifying the optimal B2B SaaS Marketing Channels for our clients, or Customer-Channel Fit.

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The Adjacent User Theory

The Empty Promise of Data Moats | Andreessen Horowitz

Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of course, we constantly hear about…

Welcome to the Era of Fake Products

Counterfeit goods have proliferated along with e-commerce. Here’s your primer on the growing world of fake products—and the forces working to combat them.

Packaging Inserts: Types and How To Create Yours (2024) - Shopify

Increase customer loyalty and take advantage of an additional opportunity to connect with customers by using packaging inserts. Here's why and how to use them in every package you send out.

Reforge

What are value metrics? How value metrics optimize pricing

See why evaluating your value metric and aligning it with your pricing strategy is the key to optimizing your SaaS business for profits and growth.

Anatomy of a managed marketplace | TechCrunch

Managed marketplaces have been one of the hottest categories of venture investment over the past several years. They garner a lot of press because the consumer experiences are often radically different than what’s previously been available in the market. But there is confusion…

Four types of product management skills

In recent years, we’ve seen new definitions for old titles and many new titles being created. We’ve got product managers, product marketing managers, product owners, business analysts, product strategists, product line managers, and portfolio managers.

21 Examples of Pricing Pages in Web Design

What is Negotiation for Product Managers? - The Product Angle

In this article, my goal is to show you what is negotiation for Product Managers and share 10 steps to influence without authority.

Sometimes It’s Not the Change They Hate — Users Know

There has been a lot of discussion in the design world recently about "change aversion." Most of the articles about it seem to be targeting the new Google redesign, but I've certainly seen this same discussion happen at many companies when big changes aren't universally embraced…

The New Curated Consumer Marketplace Model: 10 Criteria For Success

By Stephanie Tilenius, an entrepreneur in residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers The Wild West of online marketplaces is over. From 1999 until 2006, eBay and Amazon Marketplaces dominated the field, offering platforms that brought buyers and sellers together. But over the…

The 87 Most Essential Tools For Data-Driven Product Management

Like CEOs, data-driven product managers need a variety of different tools, skills, and capabilities. Here's the tools product managers need to succeed.

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Bayesian Product Ranking at Wayfair

Wayfair has a huge catalog with over 14 million items. Our site features a diverse array of products for people’s homes, with product categories ranging from “appliances” to “décor and pillows” to “outdoor storage sheds.” Some of these categories include hundreds of thousands of…

Defining A Growth Hacker: Growth Is Not A Marketing Strategy | TechCrunch

“Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy,” Andrew Chen wrote back in 2007. “Successful viral products don’t have viral marketing bolted on once the product has been developed. It’s not a marketing strategy. Instead, it’s designed into the product from the very beginning as…

The Chromecast’s reset button is proof of the reliability of hardware in a digital world

Even the software-focused Chromecast relies on hardware sometimes.

1/ A few weeks back I asked folks for suggestions on the best writing on product management. I promised to compile & share back everything…

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Why You’re Never Really Happy With the Things You Buy Anymore

Constant bargain hunting makes us value all the wrong things about shopping.

Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS — White Label Someone Else’s

Reselling software can mean recurring revenue and great profit margins. But how do you choose a niche and find your first customers?

How to Identify Keywords That Signal Shoppers’ Intent

Keyword phrases are the fuel that drives many online marketing efforts, including search engine optimization, paid search advertising, and even content ideas. If marketers do a better job in selecting keyword phrases, they may do a better job promoting their products and content.

The Network Effects Manual: 16 Different Network Effects (and counting)

The 16 Network Effects & How They Actually Work

Defining Aggregators

Building on Aggregation Theory, this provides a precise definition of the characteristics of aggregators, and a classification system based on suppliers. Plus, how to think about aggregator regulat…

Product Descriptions: 17 Fresh Writing Angles

Need to spice up descriptions for bland products? Use these themes and examples the next time you’re describing a back-to-school backpack or plain white t-shirt. You’ll soon understand how to look at ordinary products differently.

Baking mischief and delight into your products will make people love them

You should never underestimate the power of making people happy. Here are four tips from Techstars' Eamonn Carey to help you build products people love.

40 Tips for B2B Customer Development Interviews - SKMurphy, Inc.

This post on B2B customer development interviews offers my lessons learned from several thousand interviews over the last 16 years.

A Guide To Validating Product Ideas With Quick And Simple Experiments — Smashing Magazine

If you are building a product, you should always speak with customers and test your idea before. But you probably don’t know that *you *might be making some of the most common mistakes when running your experiments. Mistakes include testing the wrong aspect of your business…

Pricing Your Product

Digital Advertising Platform for Brands and Agencies | AdRoll

Boost brand awareness, increase site visitors, and drive conversions with personalized advertising. AdRoll's been trusted by 140,000+ brands for over 15 years.

Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger's 8 Principles For Building Products People Want | TechCrunch

Mike Krieger, Instagram's founder thinks you can build apps that fit the real world by watching what people want, not guessing. He presented his eight core product design insights today at 500 Startups' Warm Gun conference. Here's the cheat sheet to his talk.

What Is Conjoint Analysis, and How Can It Be Used?

Conjoint analysis is a highly effective means of market research, capable of informing a company’s pricing strategy and product development.

9 Common Types of Conjoint Analysis and How To Use Them

Conjoint analysis is the optimal market research approach for measuring the value that consumers place on features of a product or service. Learn more!

Counterintuitive Competitive Advantages

This is all that’s left of the Irish elk.

Leading Cross-Functional Teams

This is the legendary presentation about cross-functional teams from Ken Norton that made donuts and product management synonymous.

Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System

Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon is building exactly that with Alexa.

Curation and Algorithms

More and more companies are announcing new products based on human curation, even as the most important content players — Google and Facebook — rely on algorithms. When does curation make sense, an…

The Weird Science of Naming New Products (Published 2015)

To find the perfect brand, leave no word unturned.

The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menu

At IHOP and Applebee's, menus are sales documents. And navigational guides. And explainers. 

Past Behavior Does Not Determine Future Purchases | TechCrunch

Ever wonder why after buying shoes online (or any other consumer goods), for the next few weeks or months, you can be sure to spot ads or promotions for those same shoes on nearly every website you visit? What’s more, you'll see which shoes your Facebook friends bought, which…

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