You have joined an early growth startup as a Lead Product Manager, the teams are smaller, and more energized; the CEO talks about moving from 0–1 at an accelerated rate almost every day. You hear Marketing, Revenue, and Product teams driving “growth” and every team has set goals and metrics…

Product in Focus is a series to acknowledge some great products available to us and what improvements or features could be added to them to make them even better. The sixth product in this series is Swiggy. Swiggy started in 2014 as an online food ordering and delivery platform. It…

Social media content is taking over the internet — literally. Twitter’s audience grew 29% YoY to a staggering 187 million users, sending out over 500 million tweets per day. On YouTube, users upload 400 hours of content every minute. Facebook boasts 2.8 billion monthly active users who spend nearly twenty…

Product features take days, even months to get decided upon and developed; product teams usually spend an enormous amount of time in deciding what features to even go forward with, aligning with the company’s overall strategies and further collaborating with various stakeholders to build them. User research, ideating, designing and…

Product in Focus is a series to acknowledge some great products available to us and what improvements or features could be added to them to make them even better. The fifth product in this series is Amazon’s Kindle. Amazon Kindle enables users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers…

With the onset of the pandemic, people began spending long hours in front of laptops, or were glued to their small mobile screens and scrolling through endless videos — a cynic would interpret the changing human behaviour as us becoming digital hermits. Well, it might not be completely true, for…

How would it feel to a company and their teams when the product they have been toiling upon day and night, starts selling out as fast as they are building it, customers are lining up to use the product, revenue is piling up in the company’s accounts and there’s no…

Product in Focus is a series to acknowledge some great products available to us and what improvements or features could be added to them to make them even better. The fourth application in this series is Shazam. The app has made it simpler to identify the music playing around you…

With intense competition from companies to grab a significant piece in the market share and their product offerings becoming less differentiated with products trying to solve multiple correlated needs under single applications for their users, the customers are becoming less loyal over the years with the cost of acquiring new…