Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

A primary driver of success as a product manager is knowing which questions to ask: whether it’s probing for insights from your customer base or evaluating the risks of a certain product decision with your engineering lead. What is the most contentious feature the product team currently debates building?

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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 Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

Additionally, many PMs themselves often have nominal managerial experience and/or are new to the role coming from other areas such as R&D or engineering. The Trends and Benchmarks in Product Management Report states that most PMs are only 3–5 years in their present positions even if they have around 10–20 years work experience.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But I also worked with an online publisher that pivoted its decades-old product strategy to become category leader within eight months, and a hotel metasearch company that transformed its product offering to get on a new channel which helped it grow 100% year-on-year.

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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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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different. Product strategy: slip into the customers’ shoes. The pandemic’s influence on product strategy. ” Takeaways.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

You don’t need to be an engineer, but you’ll need to speak their language. It’s your responsibility to build the product roadmap. Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+. Otherwise you’ll never be fast enough. Technical expertise.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

A strong team of inventors, experimenters, and creatives with the mission to create digital products that transform lives. The team of Studio Graphene set off in London, where they are still headquartered, in 2014. Through their human-centred and agile approach, the strategists, designers, engineers.

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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. Tell me, though, what’s the underlying product strategy at play here? Matt: Incredibly impressive.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Neil Rahilly VP of Product and Design, Mixpanel Neil Rahilly is the VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel. Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. Before Mixpanel, Neil was the co-founder of Atomic Contacts. Strategic alignment.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. Our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers love, value use, etc.

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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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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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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The latest episode of Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people, is here. We spoke to Marc von Brockdorff , co-founder + engineering director of Hotjar. Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. They’re a startup success story that you don’t hear too often.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

Up until quite recently, if you wanted to build an ML system, you needed to have a hardcore engineer who understood ML and used TensorFlow or one of these products that were very inaccessible to most product people. I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. But it exists now.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 19, 2020

We didn’t have enough engineers to kind of get more graphs which has a lot of our competitors are doing. And in the 2014 version there was only like 400 companies on it. Now interestingly enough when we look at it from a product perspective using NPS which isn’t the perfect measurement of product.

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