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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Flash Belt 2008, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me.

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Frankfurt, 16 April: Product Leaders Workshop

Mironov Consulting

He also parachutes into software companies as interim VP Products/CPO to address company-level product/market/leadership issues. Rich has been the “product guy” at six Silicon Valley start-ups, and his long-running blog covers software, start-ups, product strategies, and the inner life of product managers.

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5 Questions with Blake Sirach, CPO at WillowTree

Amplitude

To bring this kind of intensive product focus into being organizationally, you need to build the right kind of team. WillowTree began in 2008, on the day that the iOS SDK was first released. The product team at WillowTree is comprised of Product Strategy, Research, Insights, Design, Content Strategy, and PM.

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What Makes Amazon’s Product Strategy So Sticky?

ProductPlan

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Building engineering orgs and new products at Segment, Dropbox & Facebook — Tido Carriero

The Review by First Round

Before that, he built out the engineering teams that worked on the core product and the initial business product at Dropbox. In today’s conversation, we dig into his career lessons from building engineering orgs and launching new product lines at several different top tech companies.

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Defining the Problems

Tyner Blain

I was poking at this issue back in 2008, to encourage people to abstract their problems correctly I provided a few examples, of “correctly” but not really good guidance to help people find the correct level of abstraction. The challenge, in pulling yourself up this chain of causality is knowing when to stop.

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Are you cut out for Product Management?

BrainMates

Being a Product Manager is a leadership role, not an order-taker role. In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap. Not only do Product Managers have to take initiative, but according to Insead , we also have to go beyond.