B2B SaaS Top-Line Metrics: Getting More Out of Your Revenue Measurements
Every company’s context is going to be different and there are many potential paths to top-line growth. The right set of revenue metrics will help you better understand your current position and identify the right growth levers to pull for your company. Some things you might be thinking about… Must you increase the size of your customer base? Do you need to make more money out of each customer? If the latter, should you be trying to increase the value of each customer with new or better products and services, or should you be focused on retaining customers for longer?
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What to look for when interviewing a Product Manager
If Product Management is both an art and a science, evaluating candidates cannot be something which is 100% objective. That hasn’t stopped people from making millions writing books about acing the PM interview at places like Google or Amazon. This guide isn’t for job seekers, it’s for interviewers, though it could be used by either. It’s particularly targeted at CEOs and other leaders who have not hired a product person before.
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Tech Debt for non-Tech People
If your product is anything more than a week old, there is Tech Debt. What is Tech Debt? How does it hurt your Product? What should you do about it?
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Get the Most Out of Remote Teams with these Tricks and Tips
Keeping remote teams connected is a challenge for any distributed company, but what if EVERYONE was remote?
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Product Operations — Turning data into action
As a growth stage company, you have found product-market fit and are now scaling. Congrats! Now, you need to assess your products on a regular and frequent basis, as you are considering different directions (e.g. new products, M&A, etc) to focus your resources for growth.
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The Science of Product Management
The point of Product Management is not to put things in JIRA in a specific format, use a specific framework for writing out goals, or make sure your developers have full backlogs. The point of Product Management is to create valuable products that customers love.
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Product Managers: Thank the Feature, Then Discard it!
In the world of managing products, sometimes you need to seek out features that no longer spark joy, thank them for their service, and then discard them.
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How Growing Up is Like Scaling Products
Every company has their own challenges and opportunities based on their target segment, their approach, their product strategy and their personnel. But the more companies I work with, patterns start emerging. Their situations are different, but still reflections of very similar stories.
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Stop complaining that Developers don’t build what you want, Communicate Better!
Many product managers get frustrated when the dev team doesn’t build what they thought they requested. Rather than blaming the engineers, look at how you are communicating and make adjustments.
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Introducing the CPO Accelerator
Since the Chief Product Officer role is so new, there are not many people who are perfectly positioned to take on this challenge, yet there are many companies desperate for this leadership. That led us to create the CPO Accelerator — a program within Produx Labs to foster the next generation of CPOs.
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