The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Conducting User Research”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days. are not necessary to get a job in tech.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons. We've got your covered.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. 17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

They operate independently with a product development team, maybe on a smaller product or area, and under the leadership and mentorship of a more senior product manager. In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more. Senior Product Manager.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

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 ). ” I think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. Everybody needs to have a strategy. So that was the first great instance of failure that I experienced in my career.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

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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.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. In a vacuum, your resume or LinkedIn profile might leave people with more questions than answers: Why did you leave Microsoft for some startup that failed?

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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. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

It’s not just about designers even though I’m talking about designers because I’m a designer – this is a quote from Lever, you know the startup that deals with like recruitment. Another problem is you’re hiring for a design leadership position and you expect the person to design leadership to be hands on too.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete. I was a self-taught coder.

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