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Janice Fraser: Knitting at the Edge of new

Mind the Product

For four years, every six months during Obama’s second term, I brought a team to the White House to teach startup-type thinking to Obama’s administration.”. It’s looking at key leadership skills “for life, family, work, and business”. The bro culture that many people find distasteful has developed since the recession, she says.

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

Business of Software Conference

But back, but yeah, I mean, back-to-back in like 2007-2008 timeframe, I actually acquired a small ad network. So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business.

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Defining the Problems

Tyner Blain

Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. 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.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

And it’s not without good reason: nearly all software products with dominant market share started as apps but grew to the point where third-party developers began building valuable integrations on top of what these companies had already created. New Relic’s General Manager, Mark Weitzel, weighs in on how you can support your developers.

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Behind Every Great Product

svpg

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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STICKY POST: All Talks From Business of Software Conferences in One Place

Business of Software Conference

Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Alison Coward: Designing High-Performing Teams. Wade Foster: Building Operating Cadence With Remote Teams. Jane Austin: 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team.

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Are You Using Your Creativity the Right Way?

The Product Coalition

I would develop a voice interface for the computer” , I said proudly. You have to understand, it was early 2008. As you can probably guess, I didn’t get the job eventually and accepted an offer from Imperva instead (which turned out to be a company with great product culture and an amazing school for product leadership).