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How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse

The Review by First Round

He wrote the first line of code at Greenhouse in May 2012, and he’s still there — over a decade later. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team. You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson.

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Transformational Leadership – 4 Real-World Examples

Modus Create

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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Smart Glass Product Review – Jio Glass, Apple Glass, Google Glass, Etc.

The Basics of Product Management

We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. It was launched with a lot of fanfare in 2012 with commercial availability by mid-2013. Google has a great engineering team and they definitely know how to optimize their software development life cycle (SDLC). Google Glass.

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Why Do Most Startups Struggle to Scale?

Modus Create

In 2012, a competitor entered the market. They feel that they can fly under the radar due to their size and won’t alarm regulators or attract malicious actors. For them, security is an integral part of the entire software development life cycle and not an afterthought. . Not Investing in Individual Growth.

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14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders

ProductPlan

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). Software as a Service has become the predominant business model for B2B software. Agile Leadership Summit. SaaStr Annual.

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

Review your list against the quadrants to determine the quadrant that fits you best, and the second-best fit too. In reality, you’ll likely have a feel for your top quadrants anecdotally, but reviewing the list will help confirm or deny your feeling. I’m not talking about seniority just yet?—?I’ll I’ll cover that in a minute.

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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. The MVP in 2012 (and the world’s first fully responsive crowdfunding website).