Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

And to test it, we ran user testing almost every week to get rapid feedback on mocked-up and coded prototypes, and reported back to the business every Friday on our progress and what we’d learned. After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was.

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Gainsight

MAY 7, 2019

Shout out to the Product people of the world. Without them, none of the software solutions or apps we love would be here today. If you’re building and managing products, it can often feel like life is a nonstop rollercoaster and every time one box is checked, another five are added. Dan Olsen, Founder/Author of Lean Product.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

While initially, there wasn’t enough work to keep so many people busy, the development teams didn’t want to twiddle their thumbs and started writing software. This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain. 3 Build an MVP.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. Why Marketing and Product must work together. But first we must ask ourselves: why?

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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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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. The majority of the attendees are from business and enterprise software/SaaS, consumer and web. Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

She is also one of the most regularly published authors in the Harvard Business Review. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? There was no sort of software there. Do you empower small, agile teams? Are there resources available for little bets?

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