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Effective Platform Product Management

You're reading from   Effective Platform Product Management An effortless strategy and execution guide for product managers who want to scale their platform business model and grow their customer base

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801811354
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Building the Right Strategy for the Platform Business Model
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Platform Business Models FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Differences between Linear Products and Platforms 4. Chapter 3: Research and Validation 5. Chapter 4: Building a Platform Strategy 6. Section 2: Building the Platform
7. Chapter 5: Defining the MVP and Creating a Platform Roadmap 8. Chapter 6: Launching the Platform 9. Chapter 7: Creating a Platform Operating Model 10. Section 3: Measuring the Performance of the Platform
11. Chapter 8: Metrics to Measure the Platform Outcome 12. Chapter 9:Ongoing Backlog Prioritization 13. Chapter 10: Moving from Linear Products to Platforms 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Case study

In the previous chapter, we defined the MVP and created a roadmap for our educational content-sharing platform, Escola. In this chapter, we will create a launch plan for the Escola MVP, and a marketing plan that will cover all the launch activities and some of the ongoing marketing tasks.

To create a launch plan, we will have to look at the launch strategy that we have defined as part of the platform strategy. The launch strategy comprises go-to-market, pricing and revenue, and onboarding components from the platform strategy. Let's quickly revise these three components from the overall Escola platform strategy, as follows:

  • Growth focus: Both sides (students and educators).
  • Go-to-market strategy: Escola will be rolled out across the US, but the focus will be only on seven cities with Ivy League colleges and a high number of preparatory schools.
  • Onboarding strategy: We can offer special incentives and prices for educators to join and share content...
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