Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Before becoming an investor Josh spent 15 years in product and engineering roles at leading companies in social, commerce, and media. He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

Guest Post by: Terri Boshoff (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. About Terri Boshoff.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Creating a sub-brand also meant that if the product never took off, it could be quietly discontinued without harming the parent brand. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. We were growing, able to show user need and demonstrate the product’s potential, so the board agreed to further investment. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

How did you all get to product-market fit ? Rick : I heard a great analogy that when you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. “When you’re in pre-product-market fit, you can feel like you’re in a desert. What has it been like the second time around?

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Gainsight

MAY 7, 2019

Dan Olsen, Founder/Author of Lean Product. Dan Olsen is a well-known PM consultant and the author of the bestseller, “ The Lean Product Playbook ,” a practical guide to achieving product-market fit. Follow this Product industry influencer: LinkedIn | Twitter | Blog. Ken Norton, Senior Operating Partner at GV.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. You think about things like databases or search engines or social networks or messaging tools. I worked on Office, then Windows, then SQL Server. Then I moved back to the Bay Area and joined Google. I absolutely love it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Those who are looking for a job in tech, whether it be in product management, software engineering, data science, or the like, have undoubtedly considered a career at Google. One of them was our co-founder Stephen Cognetta back in 2014-2015. But, Google still hires thousands and thousands of these candidates every single year.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. Back then, the better product was almost always the underdog product. being willfully naive about marketing.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 13, 2017

When I joined HubSpot in January 2014 the mission was clear. This post is an overview of the first two years (2014 - 2016) of the product where I was involved. The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. But, there’s a hidden arrogance inside that product-first mindset, and traps that await those who adopt it. Back then, the better product was almost always the underdog product. being willfully naive about marketing.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. What started then became a multi-billion dollar win for both Apple and Microsoft.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It was what I later learned was the classic startup experience of really smart founders and founding team have an idea that’s really clever, don’t validate it at all in the market, build a product, build out a team, realize they don’t have product-market fit, and just freak out and don’t know what to do.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Talks from BoS USA 2014. Des Traynor: Product Strategy is About Saying “No” Revisited. Talks from BoS EU 2014.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2023

With a background in computer science and a knack for building products, Mickey co-founded Insightera in 2014, a real-time targeting and personalization platform that was later acquired by Marketo, where he led the global engineering team as a GVP for almost three years. Great weather as well.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. So we’ve been kind of talking about the sub you started off as a product guy? DC : Yeah an engineer, software engineer and then yes. DC : In 30 seconds?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

So, as a business begins to discover its business model, its product market fit it begins to enjoy the recipe for success or, more specifically, its leaders do. It was done in 2014 and they were interested in understanding what had happened to American households spending patterns since the advent of the first true smartphones.

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