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Hiring a Head of Product | Rich Mironov | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo finally took place. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. If you’d like to immerse yourself in product management learning alongside fellow product leaders in 2020, here are our top picks that you don’t want to miss: Mind the Product, San Francisco, CA.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

The launch of Hey, Basecamp’s new email service, has become one of the most talked about product launches of 2020- not least because of the very public fight with the Apple store. And over the years we’ve made a name for ourselves being an independent company we’re a relatively small business intentionally.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Sometimes – a lot less: While in 2023 women in CEO roles earned “only” $14,000 less than men on average, in 2020 the gap was over $45,000 (nearly a third -31% – less!). My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. And yet – even when they work harder – they get paid less.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). If I remember right, you took our Master Class in the fall of 2020. ” Super helpful.