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Product Management in a Startup

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February 28, 2015
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Product Management in a Startup

I gave this talk at Product Camp Vancouver in 2015.

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February 28, 2015

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Transcript

  1. Product management in a startup Weston Triemstra @thermistor • [email protected]

  2. Product management?

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  5. Steve Blank

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  9. Eric Ries

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  11. Lean Canvas

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  16. Press release first Ian McAllister at Amazon

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  19. Metrics don't matter

  20. Qualitative data matters

  21. Documents

  22. Documents Assumptions

  23. Documents Assumptions Prototypes

  24. Documents Assumptions Prototypes Excel Models

  25. Documents Assumptions Prototypes Excel Models Positioning

  26. Documents Assumptions Prototypes Excel Models Positioning Sales Bible

  27. Documents Assumptions Prototypes Excel Models Positioning Sales Bible Roadmap

  28. Practices

  29. Practices Get out of the office

  30. Practices Get out of the office Design led process

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  37. Google Venture's Design Sprints

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  39. Practices Get out of the office Design led process Cheat!

  40. Generate a roadmap ondemand

  41. Invision for shareable prototypes

  42. None

  43. Things that don't scale

  44. Mechanical Turk Wizard of Oz

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  46. Metrics don't matter

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  48. Metrics don't matter until you have customer/market fit that is

    ...
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  50. AARRR

  51. AARRR Pirate Metrics

  52. Acquisition: users come to the site from various channels Activation:

    users enjoy 1st visit: "happy" user experience Retention: users come back, visit site multiple times Referral: users like product enough to refer others Revenue: users conduct some monetization behavior
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  55. Thank you Weston Triemstra @thermistor • [email protected]