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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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The majority of the attendees are from business and enterprise software/SaaS, consumer and web. About the Conference: Mind the Product events are the go-to places for meeting other product managers and honing your product craft. Michael Sippey, VP Product at Medium. Which industries are the attendees from?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

As traditional marketing messaging is increasingly met with distrust, consumers are now empowered by their smartphones and mobile connectivity to find and engage with businesses at almost any stage of the marketing funnel. As long ago as 2014, the Harvard Business Review was talking about how marketing can no longer rely on the funnel.

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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. Creating a sub-brand also meant that if the product never took off, it could be quietly discontinued without harming the parent brand.

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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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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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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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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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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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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. Software enables access to assets, not ownership of assets. Upcoming Events.

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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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