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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. Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? How are those mass messages crafted? Send messages?

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Moxie on Murder

Crafty CTO

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. And there, listed first: Moxie Marlinspike.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Not work, work, work” I went to the Boston Consulting Group for a few years and then I went to business school at Stanford for a few years.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. Then we realized that, hey, like this small thing, which is just the name of the company, which if you talk to a Fortune company, probably say, it doesn’t really matter. Food for thought for anyone on the Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death….

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. What’s In a Name? They come from professional services groups — which is all bespoke contracts and project management.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

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 ). Teresa: Who are your typical customers? ” Super helpful. Who was deciding on that output?

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How To Manage Your Badass Team | Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. So the tool I like to use is called RACI and it stands for Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed. They don’t know what you want them to do. I’m counting on you OK.