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The engineering mindset | Will Larson (Carta, Stripe, Uber, Calm, Digg)

Lenny Rachitsky

— Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. Avoid generic or identity values (like “we build good software”) that lack differentiation and fail to provide useful guidance for employees.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. How will you differentiate from these? Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? What are your key Startup Metrics ?

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Chief Product Officer: Their Superpowers and Role in SaaS Growth!

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A CPO must coordinate employees from various functional areas, including software engineers, product managers, UX/UI designers, analysts, and marketers. Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. It’s important to be able to answer the question of, what does a chief product officer do?

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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

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Microsoft, for example, depends on manufacturers (Dell/HP) and retailers (Best buy) to sell its software. While the SAAS model has disrupted this thought process, enterprise software very much depends on forward integrators. recurring subscriptions, troubleshooting) and in some capacity as a customer success team.

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The Unintentional Career of John Cutler

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Currently, John is the product evangelist at San Francisco product analytics software developer Amplitude. Every relationship where you help people initially has a power differential. Let’s think of products as a differentiated delivery mechanism of some value exchange. Who has the power? I enjoy product.

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Conducting User Research in Product Management

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Applying Product Management to Web Design in a Multiscreen Era

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas started his career as software developer with Siemens. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.