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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Founders realizing they can't do it all on their own, that Product Management is a career, and an important skill for the executive team. -- 2011: "You are crazy for joining a startup, Melissa. Product, and especially product in startups, is now the hot job. -- 2014: "We don't need Product Management help, we need design help.

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Don’t Miss These Amazing Speakers at #mtpcon Singapore

Mind the Product

She also spent three years as VP Product at HotelTonight and has held product leadership roles at Prezi, Snagajob, and Eclipsys. Product Leadership. Kate has more than 20 years product management, leadership and marketing experience with the likes of Yahoo! Kenneth Chin, CPO Seek Asia. by Kate Leto, Product Consultant.

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Petra Wille: A Social Creature

Mind the Product

After four and a half years at Xing Petra felt the company had grown too big for her to be able to make the impact she wanted, so she then spent a couple of years at tech startup Tolingo, first as head of product, and then as CPO/COO. “I It’s where I gained a lot of the knowledge I use these days if I’m consulting in startups,” she says.

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Don’t Forget the ‘Up’ in Bottom-up Planning

The Product Coalition

At the beginning of the 2011 movie “I don’t know how she does it” Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker) needs to bake a pie for the school bake sale. In startups, for example, things are so dynamic that it sometimes feels irrelevant to plan too far ahead. Unfortunately, for various reasons, it’s not always possible to do so.

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What Is The Spotify Model?

The Product Coalition

The Spotify model dates back to 2011 when Henrik Kniberg & Anders Ivarsson, at the behest of their colleagues, published a whitepaper: Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters, and Guilds. What Is the Spotify Model? Each squad has their own long-term mission, and own a particular slice of the overall product.

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Japanese Female Entrepreneurs who Thrive Against the Odds

freshtrax

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group. The truth is quite different. They wouldn’t know they need it.