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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft. Stephanie Hannon, CPO at Strava. See you in July!

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Venture Funds Arrive in the Mastodon Space

Crafty CTO

Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m Most of the older ones are dead, especially to blogs. I like paying for the services I use. Twitter is free to use and look how that’s gone. You know which ones aren’t dead from 2002?

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. Solving the puzzle.

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Pivoting a Startup with User Research

Basel Fakhoury

May, 2018 After validating our assumptions, we knew it was time to start working on User Interviews full-time. Our CTO (Bob) cleaned up the website & replaced the Google form with one that made us seem slightly more legit. You can read about our continued adventures here on our blog ! We were able to find 4 paying clients!

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. How about we stop until the end of 2018 I do no more quarterlies. Now he’s the CTO.

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With Jetpack, Android Development Has Leapfrogged iOS

Atomic Spin PM

Google I/O vs. WWDC 2018. WWDC in 2018 was a big disappointment for me. That topic could be a blog post in itself. In 2018, many of the components were good to go. They’ve also made them easy to use by adding support for them in Android Studio. What was I expecting? You can see here how it’s matured.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Darragh: You wrote a blog post recently about the impact of having sponsors during your time at Microsoft. Nick: Making Reddit more welcoming was a theme for all of 2017 and most of 2018. Nick: Snooze Day was actually started by the original Reddit CTO, Marty Weiner, and the idea was to give Reddit employees some creative freedom.