Software Marketing Tweetables 6 February 2012

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Feb 062012

Catch up on last week’s favourite articles featuring useful insights and tips for marketing your software

Product Marketing
Startups
Software Marketing

5 Articles on Product Marketing

Does your startup need a Product Manager?

In startups, a succinct explanation of what a PM does is to translate the product vision into an actual execution plan by delivering the right features at the right time.

When Should a Startup Hire a Product Manager? http://bit.ly/ziwWxP #ProdMktg

Not Your Average Product Marketing Video

A high-end men’s store based in SF, was looking to push the envelope and develop product driven videos… Rather than the standard “look at all these great features” approach they wanted to show prospective customers how to properly use and integrate each item into their daily life.

Product Marketing Videos for Men « Never thought I’d say that! http://bit.ly/w1uY0F #ProdMktg

Product Marketing Is Dead. Long Live Product Marketing!

As marketing matures and prospects are in control, marketing has to seriously up its game.

Product Marketing Is Dead. Long Live Product Marketing http://bit.ly/yYfJys #ProdMktg

HBR Blog Network

While events are unfolding in the world at an accelerating pace, increasingly complex institutions are less and less able to deal with them.

Apple has only about 60 products http://bit.ly/ziQhjA #ProdMktg

Competitive Analysis

A product manager shares his tricks on how to assemble the best competitive information.

Competitive Analysis, a primer http://bit.ly/AovVn8 #ProdMktg

5 Articles on Startups

How Google Maintains Innovation Despite Its Size

How to foster and grow innovation from within your organization. Dan Cristo recommends enterprises run their own hackathons.

How Can Google Still Innovate Like A Startup? http://bit.ly/zhlRmV #Startup

Visual Website Optimizer

How does a solo entrepreneur in India bootstrap a profitable company with about 1,000 paying customers?

Great Startup Story @wingify Developer in India Builds Self-Service AB Testing for Marketing http://bit.ly/z3xQ2I #Startup

Stop Validating Your Product

If you figure out your problems and your market before you come up with an Idea or a Solution or a Product, then when you do build something, you’ve already done a huge amount of the work in figuring out if anybody’s going to use it.

Excellent Article by @lauraklein on Why a LeanStartup Should Not Be Validating Product http://bit.ly/zhnY02 #Startup

Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain what went wrong

Find out why Verifiable, Wesabe, Storytlr, TwitApps, Vox, Swivel, and EventVue all shut down.

Startup Failures. Founders Explain Why http://bit.ly/yOnryf #Startup

The Hacker Way

Eric Ries admires Mark Zuckerberg’s courage to launch a simple, useful app in a week, celebrate his first 900 customers, and – for eight straight years – insist on iterating, executing, and building for the long-term.

Facebook: The Hacker Way http://bit.ly/xqcrAV #Startup