Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy. Feature teams focus on delivering output, while empowered product teams focus on solving problems and delivering outcomes.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. To ensure that the right technologies are applied, you’ll benefit from using a technology strategy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to the product leader (in early-stage startups it is often even the same person as the hands-on product manager), they still see the importance of the role in the orchestration of the product execution. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged. Chief Operating Officer: Responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, providing strategic advice, and managing the company’s operations.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It will be the product adventure of a lifetime. We are gearing up to support you in accelerating your product strategies and provide the tools you’ll need to level up your career in product. There will be unequaled thought-leaders and actionable strategies mixed with child-like joy. Get in, everyone.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. Other considerations include an exit strategy and the capability to scale and diversify after the initial launch.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product managers must thoroughly understand the competitive space their products occupy, along with what their primary competitors are doing. From there, PMs must develop product vision and strategy to help achieve the company's goals. The average product manager salary is around $112,000/year.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As Gainsight PX CTO Mickey Alon discussed with Carlos Gonzales Villaumbrosia, Founder & CEO of Product School and author of The Product Book , the solution isn’t complicated—it’s product-led growth. Level up your product strategy— Try Gainsight PX free! Sprites were difficult to see.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

One of their main and most important responsibilities, however, is to hire and develop very strong product managers and nurture their function within the organization. Much like any successful head coach in professional sports, the product manager ultimately is the leader of a team.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

In 2005, MarketingProfs defined marketing operations as follows: “Marketing operations builds a foundation for excellence by reinforcing marketing strategy with metrics, infrastructure, business processes, best practices, budgeting, and reporting.” ” I believe that the same definition can easily be applied to product ops.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Here are four sets of challenges that are different from managing individual products: [1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. [2]

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Listen to the Aptrinsic team (about the buyer, market, technology). But when it comes to Product Management, the Aptrinsic team are the experts. They will lead our strategy and message to the Product world. We’re not disrupting product development. We’re not changing the product strategy.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. At this level, let’s say that it is those pillars that exist between engineering, product, strategy, and finance.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Their day to day might run perfectly and production outputs very high. Yet their paths, strategy, roadmap prioritization were not well decided, if set at all. So who is better managed, your CTO (managed by you) or yourself (being managed by the board)? Naturally, we think they reach that point because things went wrong.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

A CPO always aligns product features with the company’s vision and the consumer’s needs. As a result, the CPO can facilitate product-led growth by developing a vision and strategy that fosters seamless production. Developing product vision. Product marketing. Managing cross-functional teams.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

At Bain Public , we believe a great product should be the first focus of every startup. Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. It’s a combination of skills that lead to building great products. Are you a product manager?

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

The Chief Product Officer (CPO) or Vice President of Product Management (VP of Product) roles are more common in larger organisations, and usually report directly to the CEO. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. 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.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I learned about company values from Jeffrey, the chief architect; the company’s mission from Spenser, the CEO; product strategy with Justin, the VP of product; and engineering architecture with Curtis, the CTO. Throughout the first week, I had sessions with the leader of each department.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This interview with Ogi Kavazovic , CMO and SVP Product Strategy at Flatiron Health, outlines a tactical perspective for balancing these seemingly counterintuitive concepts. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. The agony and ecstasy of building with data. Author: Julie Zhou. Author: Simon Sinek.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

In the time that I’d been with the company over the previous number of years, we had iterated on how to do product roadmap discussions as our company grew from 5 when I started to 40, 50, 60 people and growing the engineering team and trying out different ways to have the “What do we work on next?” Product strategy board.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Let’s start by defining the distinctions between three concepts: Product-Led Organization Product-Led Growth Product-Centric Organization A product-led organization is a business that makes its products the vehicle for acquiring and retaining customers, driving growth, and influencing organizational priorities.

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