Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.” But just because Benn tells me his writing isn’t “useful” in the ways that most content marketing strategies would hope for, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer business value alongside its obvious entertaining and edifying values. You’re a company founder and a CTO.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. Now let’s look at the three product-led growth go-to-market types for SaaS companies. Types of SaaS Growth.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. From the Bottom Up.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. First, legacy businesses often face cultural barriers and resistance to change when it comes to implementing new technologies and practices.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

” TikTok fosters a leadership culture of “context, not control” that encourages ownership and decentralized decision-making. TikTok wins global markets by hiring locally and refining algorithms to fit regional and local cultures. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Tom was previously the VP of Product at Snap and the chief technology officer of Pandora. He also held leadership positions at notable tech flops Pets.com and Quibi, giving him a unique perspective not only on what it takes to build a successful company but also on lessons from failure.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This refers to the fear many large established companies are feeling as more and more new players and startups enter the markets to disrupt them. One of the ways in which these new players are differentiating themselves from others in the market is through great product people and effective product management. Becoming a CPO.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. These tools mostly show initiatives.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 2, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Don't miss out - sign up now: The post Reflections on leadership, culture, & growth | Kieran O’Neill | BoS Online Europe 2020 appeared first on Business of Software USA. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Over the past year we have introduced new products, like our bot Operator and our live chat solution for sales and marketing teams, and new levels of automation and intelligence to help do this. This is just the start, we will be building out new products here and in all of our offices.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Wait until after achieving product-market fit to avoid conflicts and unnecessary complexity in decision-making, especially if the founder remains the primary driver of product direction. Evaluate advice based on context, considering the source’s background, company approach, and alignment with successful practices.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

But a product team’s success can only happen with all hands on deck, meaning teamwork from the PM to the engineers to the marketers and so on. Since the company was still growing, most of the product decisions were handled by the company’s CTO and co-founder. Things that the product leadership believes in.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. Cross-functional leadership. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. Keren: Begin with the market voices. How do product managers lead standups?

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 14, 2021

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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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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And InVision’s The New Design Frontier report on design maturity found that organizations with high-performing, mature design teams “are more likely to see cost savings, revenue gains, productivity gains, speed to market, and brand and market position improvements through their design efforts.” Embrace Iteration.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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Bain Public

MARCH 6, 2023

Paul then jumped in with his own similar experience with a CTO where he was disregarded and sent down rabbit holes chasing more data and more interviews with customers, when all the CTO was really doing was trying to buy time, which burned the bridge of trust. You end up second guessing whether you know the roles and responsibilities."

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Apply to the Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 15, 2020

John was determined to do both in the global adtech market, not one that is traditionally associated with deep Cambridge tech. He describes entering new markets with a relatively limited supply of capital which meant every new move could have been very costly. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle. Excel at Change – Can we keep the cost of change low?

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 3, 2020

He’s also been a software engineer, a serial CTO, and the Chief Product Officer at Hubspot, giving him a unique lens into company building and leadership at different levels. It’s a must-listen for current founders and CEOs, and anyone looking to level up their leadership skills.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She will share some of her experiences in helping to shape and scale a successful commercial strategy that has meant the company has grown incredibly quickly; from the outset, the intention was to establish a reputation in a key market before applying its AI know-how to other challenges, such as risk or compliance.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership. Leadership. You need to be able to explain why you go in one direction and not another, you need to consider how you want to act in the market (context specific) as well as the more universal doctrines. Wardley maps map onto the same cycle. The Wardley map.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. When I send my mentees to work with sales on understanding the customers and the market better , the discussion often gets very quickly into features that are missing in the product.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 29, 2021

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 3, 2020

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