PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 3, 2022

BizOps jobs are especially popular at startups and tech companies, as they bridge knowledge gaps that may exist between product , engineering , and marketing teams. They can present narratives to leadership about the company’s current, past and future needs. Identifying new growth potential areas is part of a BizOps job.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A turning point was participating in Techstars Startup Weekend, where I worked on a team to build a business in one weekend. After that, I was hiring for a product leadership role, and I loved every product person I met. After three months, I started working at a property tech startup helping people find places to rent.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

People in our team have come from a wide range of other companies, from the big companies like Google and Facebook to other growing startups, and lots in between. You’ll never have to explain the importance of your discipline, nor explain what it is you do, to anyone in the leadership team. Our leadership team will always listen.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

10) Protect the team vs Challenging the team Whether you like it or not as a Product Manager you are in a leadership position. link] 11) Give credit for success vs Take responsibility for failures Another feature of leadership is being in the shadows?—?shining This is leadership and the role of Product Management.

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The Product Cafe

JUNE 16, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Simply pushing harder in the same direction won't land you at the Product Leadership peak.🏔️ Hello, all you product-loving folks! Here's a secret! But there's a plot twist!

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

I've long found myself unsatisfied with the conventional discourse of what leadership is supposed to look like in Silicon Valley technology companies. These best practices are typically oversimplified into two high-level philosophies on leadership. Makes sure there is always enough cash in the bank.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

Quoting Georgie Smallwood, CPO of European digital bank N26, Melissa explains that the skills of a product leader are essentially those of a product manager but with wider scope. How can you position yourself well now for a future as a product leader, and, once you get the job, what do you do? Plan Your Future Today.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms. Historically, jobs in investment banking or management consulting have been the popular choice for MBA graduates in the US. Making the Transition to Product. Challenges You Might Face.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be leading a workshop on March 30th, 2021 in collaboration with EcoFuel : a specialized and personalized accelerator dedicated to seed stage cleantech startups. About EcoFuel. About Paul Ortchanian.

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The Product Guy

JULY 4, 2019

After working at Northwestern University, I became a consultant and was responsible for servicing one of the largest banking institutions in the nation. Due to recent changes to the bank’s business goals, 20,000 accounts were deemed unserviceable and I was given the task to remove 20,000 accounts from the system.

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Roy Madden

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The other day, I liked how they analyzed the strategies behind two up-and-coming startups and gave a valuable takeaway.”. Airline Economics is the leading and largest finance & leasing global publication for the aviation sector, reaching industry professionals from lessors, investors, banks, airlines, law firms & MROs.”.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Sir Herbert Holt’s participation was crucial in turning RBC into the country’s largest bank and the third largest in North America at the time. This allows startups to obtain feedback and build their network, while advisors learn new tech, explore potential deals, and interact with like minded individuals.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Startups, small and mid-size companies are becoming more technologically sophisticated. Indeed startups are often launching with or driving the development of new technologies. Banks must compete experience by experience with a relentless focus on delivering value to customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. Investors are incentivised to put their money anywhere other than a bank. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups. Best in class Late-stage Startups (e.g. Best in class Late-stage Startups (e.g. Mid-stage startups.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

Alanna Innes , Product Owner at xDesign At the Edinburgh offices of Lloyds Bank Commercial Finance, Alanna & Duncan shared with an audience of over 100 people how their product team at Heineken employed user research methods to ensure the successful launch of a digital customer relationship management (CRM) system.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

It means opening bank accounts in the target country and updating terms and conditions to comply with local money-laundering and securities laws. As you can imagine it’s a little more complicated than just adding the option to a drop-down. Because then they’ll live or die by those outcomes.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups. Nicholas also plays a role in evolving tech, as an advisor to a number of promising startups. Nicholas Goubert – SoundCloud.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The top projects worth mentioning are OTP bank mobile application testing, Microsoft Sharepoint benchmarking tool development, and mobile application creation for Starbucks Russia. UX studio is a young European product design company with an established thought leadership in the design communities. Its client portfolio is diverse too.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Unsure of what tech career path she wanted to tread, Oluwatobi’s career began at a startup. “At startups, you get to be hands-on in almost everything that’s needed for the company to succeed,” she says, “and so I started software development, learnt animation, offered IT support, and customer service.”

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Imagine a software startup. Instead, they fund operations from their bank accounts. With limited funding, the startup will need to generate revenue quickly. Our hypothetical startup does not have the payment from other products, or any outside funding, to support the ramp-up in revenue of its new app.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, our leadership team might decide to focus our company strategy on targeting the segments with the best revenue retention. Sales: Be able to route prospects to our self-service flow or the most appropriate team within Sales, e.g. startups, SMB, MME, based on well-defined customer segments.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

It is a complex process that requires strong leadership and commitment from all stakeholders. The digital transformation can have far-reaching impacts on businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. What are the benefits of digital transformation for your business? What are the use cases of digital transformation?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2020

The role is more about other skills like leadership, strategic thinking, industry awareness, etc. When you’re at a small company, especially very small startups in the early stages, everyone has to roll up their sleeves pitch in. And this is because their technical abilities will be a core element of their role. It’s a small company.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 15, 2020

They will help you cut through a lot of the confusion VCs face when trying to get answers from the startup teams approaching them for funding, and for attempting to oversee the companies once they’ve already invested in them. She rose to product leadership positions at DocuSign, Optimizely, and SurveyMonkey. Ashley Carroll.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

In companies without a design DNA , Jeff recommends creating an “in-house startup,” where a small design team innovates around a challenge and proves its worth by positively impacting customers. We miss the startup days when we could just make decisions more quickly, and we could react in a more nimble fashion’”.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 2, 2019

We help you navigate through the world of product leadership – even after the course via our community and conferences networking opportunities. Live Project: You have an option to do a live project which involves solving a real-world product problem statement from a startup/product company. 200+ topics. 25+ guest speakers.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 28, 2019

I’ve spoken to these SaaS CEOs about a variety of topics—everything from: Leadership and org decisions. These CEOs ranged from leaders of early-stage startups to dozens at publicly-traded companies. In addition, several exec search firms have set up strong practices around CS leadership. Strategy questions. Benchmarking data.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. Anomaly detection is used to identify suspicious bank transactions or fake accounts. Just one year later, there have been almost 9,000 of them.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 26, 2020

Unless you work in banking, everyone can’t be a vice president. Senior leadership is going to be looking for traits that indicate you’ll flourish as a manager. That’s why many product managers looking to take on leadership roles end up jumping ship to startups or smaller firms. Have you led cross-functional teams ?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 17, 2022

And so I started picking up freelance jobs at these big places like Nickelodeon, Viacom, investment banks. That was a crazy job – being in investment banks during the first dot-com boom and bust. Getting to work with those leaders was really humbling, and you could see, “Wow, that leadership is something.”

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

We’ve grouped them into 6 categories, for you to browse easily: Leadership. 1 – Leadership. Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. Product & UX. Building Teams. Creativity. Sales & Marketing. Business Models. Unsubscribe anytime. Watch Tom's Talk.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

" and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." How do we know? What is your ideal manager like?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. For product executives, their firm’s growth from a small startup to mid-size going concern means a few key changes in how they build and lead their teams. Meanwhile, your growing company will inevitably lose some of its nimbleness.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

Whereas, just letting things happen more project-based, then we would never sit down and have someone deeply understand how you manage funding sources, credit cards and banks in your Venmo account. We had a top-down thing come down where we need to make some changes in the way we add bank accounts to Venmo. Can we make it more dynamic?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

was still working as a senior VP of an investment bank, he explored the investment potential of the internet. It’s common to make arrangements where you supply your development resource to work within another team (with their senior development leadership/code reviews/etc.) Like all great products, it starts with one person.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

One particular example, UpBank, I’d argue one of the most underrated and successful software companies in Australia, only has Product Designers with one single product leadership role. You can bank on your competitors messing this up, because everyone seems to be. Some startups adopt this strategy to fool investors.

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