The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. No Market Need. According to Crunchbase , there were 3,002 startups launched globally in 2018. A 2018 report by CBInsights zeroed in on the top 20 reasons for startup failure­. A 2018 report by CBInsights zeroed in on the top 20 reasons for startup failure­. The number one culprit?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Then I went on with the marketing director as boom went to bust at Sportal and joined Hutchison 3G UK. That was their target market. Tom Adeyoola, Founder/CEO, Metail.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 19, 2019

– David Heinemeier Hansson (Founder/CTO, Basecamp). 4 // The Product-Market Fit Engine – Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman). Did you know can optimize for Product-Market Fit? That was Rahul Vohra’s thesis at Business of Software USA 2018. A must watch. Watch Gail's Talk. 3 // Rewrite!

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. 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.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Responsible for delivering value to the market. Launching new products and features in market. Withdrawing existing products from market. Contending with external market information, market changes and third party relationships. See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ).

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. So what are your next steps? So what are you going to do now?

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Basel Fakhoury

MAY 17, 2018

Companies gluing together other tools is always a good sign that there is a need in the market. Craigslist is not optimized for specific use cases at all, so if companies are using Craigslist, it is another sign that there’s a large need in the market. We’re not the only ones with this insight). We were able to find 4 paying clients!

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

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. The market has given us permission to exist for 10 years. Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder/CEO, Balsamiq.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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. the best content on product management, marketing and customer support. Sign me up. You’re all set.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And by the fifth time you’re certifiable at this point. Like starting businesses cause when you go through it is. Because we left a company where we were we just went public as a company the company is called Hubspot and Dharmesh has spoken here many times and we were working with Dharmesh and he left that to go start a company again.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. That just blows my mind. Here’s Rachel.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I said, “Mother, you’re right” – and I went to the economics faculty and studied marketing. Ironically, when we run out of leads – I had to founder-led marketing. ”

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. We also did a lot of co-marketing.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. We attacked new markets. A lot has changed, the market has changed. It works across any team – marketing team sales team engineering team. Upcoming Events. Super effective.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. Back in 2000, product management was much less popular than it was in 2018. That's when I first started thinking about the term product-market fit and how to do real customer discovery. Tell us about how you broke into product management. I think it's really common.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 14, 2019

Teams invest time and money in advanced marketing tools to automate campaign development and delivery. Amplitude Engage makes timely, targeted campaigns possible by extending the power of Amplitude into the marketing tools you use. Ultimately, this means less spam for consumers and more efficient programs for marketers.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As product management becomes such an in-demand, lucrative career option, companies are carving out markets with offerings that enhance a product manager’s job to build and optimize customer-centric products. Other attendees tend to be from marketing, design, and engineering. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. That turned out to be quite positive.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. That turned out to be quite positive.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. The first one is market relevance.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Marketing & Sales. Speaking at BoS Europe in 2018, Tim talks about some of the lessons learned he learned during some very trying days for his company DataSift. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018, Laura explains some of the advantages with examples from MeetEdgar. 5 // Marketing & Sales. Culture & Teams.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“I started out in financial services which took me to data and CRM in marketing. ” Charlotte Morris VP Marketing and CX, Trint. Prior to LevelUp, I worked in business development, marketing, and product roles at blockchain/cryptocurrency startups. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So I’m here to tell you some things that companies do that really irritate designers so you can learn from their mistakes and you can succeed in hiring and retaining talent in this really competitive market. They get it muddled up with market research. This brings me to Irritation number 1: Asking your design team to colour in.

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