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Intercom’s Sanj Bhayro on creating the right foundation to help businesses scale

Intercom, Inc.

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

In the middle, are writing a good user story, performing effective research and building a good relationship with engineers – all valuable skills that take practice to do well. As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. Things you can usually get training for.

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Alarmed About AI?

Crafty CTO

Willison expressed alarm at Bing’s off-the-tracks behavior, with good cause–his comment to me was, in part: … but it’s pretending to be a search engine! Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005. Alarm over AI isn’t something new.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

engine to help businesses optimize operational systems such as monitoring/detection, demand forecasting, and route optimization to name a few. engine defeated a professional Japanese shogi (Japanese chess) player in 2013. engine defeated a professional Japanese shogi (Japanese chess) player in 2013. TKP Corporation. Real Estate.

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The PM’s Guide To Getting Stuff Done: Tackle Your To-Do List in 3 Easy Steps

UserVoice

Ben Horowitz touched passively on “micro-managing” in Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager , reminding us that Product Managers should be more vision-focused than execution-focused : “Good product managers crisply define the target, the “what” (as opposed to the how) and manage the delivery of the “what.”

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Why Gender Diversity Leads to Better Products

ProductPlan

So they came up with the solution to filter down to technical PMs, [with] the requirement that they have a degree in computer science—or a related field like electrical engineering. Unfortunately, in 2005, women only earned about one in five CS degrees in the US, which continues today.

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Top 7 UX Research Agency in 2023

UX Studio: Product Management

Jacob Nielsen, a famous UX writer himself as well, published his book, Usability Engineering in 1993 – early writing about how to do usability tests, avoid usability issues and improve product quality with cost-effective methods. . Product Vision & Strategy. Both of these writings have been cited in thousands of articles. .