The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

There's no need to wait another year to make positive changes in our lives. He is a key advisor and speaker known for his product strategy insights. He is all about helping companies by fueling growth and making them market leaders. Active in course creation, advising, and angel investing in the tech sector.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Getting a PM job in a start-up may be easier than in big companies. Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. You should customize the content of your resume to match the requirements of each position you apply for. Yes, you do!

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Jenna Gaudio is the Vice President of Product Management at Vydia, the award-winning tech company empowering content creators and their teams. Prior to Vydia, Gaudio built and managed the marketing team at video Ad Tech company, Yashi, which was successfully acquired in 2015 for $33M cash by Nexstar Media Group. Jenna Gaudio. ?Jenna

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

You learned about other roles where your experience in CS can be a springboard for those positions. While specialized CSMs may be asked to perform different metrics, objectives, and activities based on their industry or company, baseline CS skills have strong commonalities across all business segments. Paths Beyond CSM.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews.

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

Each has advised me in different ways and on different aspects of what I can bring to an organization both personally and professionally. As a CTO, I am asked to fulfill various needs depending on the particular circumstances of the company. I tend to seek out people who can advise me best in my current circumstances.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. It makes sense then that the most crucial skills for Product Managers are intangible people skills – otherwise known as soft skills, but we’ll discuss that later – which tend to be more transferable from position to position and industry to industry. Technical Skills for Product Management.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

It makes sense then that the most crucial skills for Product Managers are intangible people skills – otherwise known as soft skills, but we’ll discuss that later – which tend to be more transferable from position to position and industry to industry. Technical Skills for Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. Many graduates are keen to work in a startup or technology company, but are not aware of the existence of the Product Manager role, and that it is ideally suited to them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. This helps build trust with the engineering team as well.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. This helps build trust with the engineering team as well.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For SaaS companies who want to make sure their customers hit the ground running, it's difficult to avoid the subject of new user onboarding tools. Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." This is deceptive advertising, and you should avoid companies like this. " Onboarding milestones.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. You just landed into a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager, whether it’s a small or big company, you are expected to get fast into the role, and many times you are expected to do it by yourself.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

If you interview for this type of job at two companies, don’t be surprised if the hiring managers ask you completely different questions, because there is no standard set of product operations analyst interview questions. Businesses are still learning how to build a product operations function in their companies.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021. Many local and international design thinking companies offer similar services. Are you looking for a design thinking company now?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. Bill: Sure, absolutely. We got acquired by the large U.S. The holy grail.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. I would advise you differently. Trust your team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Product tours are a useful tool for SaaS companies in 3 main areas: New user onboarding. For this reason, SaaS companies often use product tours to get their new hires up to speed at understanding their own tool. But how exactly do product tours affect your business?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

In this article, we’ve put all our insights from building walkthroughs with thousands of SaaS companies in one place. SaaS companies use walkthroughs to onboard new users, highlight secondary features , and train new staff. Rather than reinventing the wheel, it’s smart to take inspiration from other companies’ successful walkthroughs.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics? Do Some Soul-Searching.

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Gainsight

APRIL 18, 2022

Tableau, a Salesforce company, is on a quest to empower people by seeing and understanding their data. Ian believes that his journey of understanding rapid growth and change evolution comes from a deep background working as a consultant and within various companies like Sybase and Red Hat. Tell the Story With Words and Data.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. The AOM position is one of the most popular and sought after roles; many people with competitive backgrounds apply each year.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics? They came from a big company. The Personality Test.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The GDPR will mean heavier fines for companies where a data breach occurs. TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Why Product Needs to Care.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

: Yes Walk Away With: Industry-vetted experience and a diverse portfolio, 1:1 mentoring throughout, and as a stong post-graduation support network of over 1000 graduates and 600+ partner companies. Apart from standard career counseling offerings, grads have access to a huge industry network - including 600+ partner companies upon graduation.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 15, 2024

But I experienced OKRs first-hand at Intel—where they were originally invented—when I worked for the company in the late 1990s. [2] The most important one is the goal , and it’s positioned in the middle of the template on the third row. Additionally, a small number of key results is commonly employed. [1]

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. Great managers look out for you and want to make sure your career interests are being considered, but managers aren’t always fully aware of all the opportunities a company might have.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

While the amount of time spent in each of these areas will vary by the company as well as by your seniority in the organization, the vast majority of your work will always fall into one of these areas. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? So that’s me.

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Dear Strategy

JANUARY 4, 2019

Admittedly, the term “on-premises” might more commonly be used in a business-to-business context, but it technically refers to any type of software that is installed and run from an onsite device rather than in the cloud. But I would definitely advise against making any career choice based solely on what you think is popular.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. The rise of the internet, smart phones and all kinds of technical advancements, saw many monolithic empires crumble through disruption?—?leaving Ahead of his time he also described that the best “Brand Men” would do this though experimentation and customer interactions?—?obviously

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the folks at Reforge, a new company started by my friends Brian Balfour and Susan Su focused on advanced professional education. I recently asked a handful of folks from the Reforge Collective about the questions they ask when interviewing candidates for competitive positions in growth. Probe on Metrics.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. And we store every release note in a company-wide shared Google Drive folder to make sure people can go back to one place in case they missed out on it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution. Too often, companies make the mistake of going after too many things at once. The best way to know your customers is through feedback. Use it to make better product decisions.

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