Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. He returns this year to talk about some of the best advice he’s been given by other founders of software companies. 1 // Mikey Trafton.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

No matter the stage of the company, product people will find themselves working alongside a tech lead of some sort. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. Tech leads are often your strongest ally when pitching new projects and opportunities to company stakeholders. I also work on North Beach Paper Co.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Each individual phase of this life cycle presents unique challenges that can make or break any company. According to Crunchbase , there were 3,002 startups launched globally in 2018. This means that only 300 of those companies are probably still operating today. Enter venture capitalists!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. What’s the right way to do this in your company? They likely don’t have all the answers.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Looked to new models for private jet aviation, managed a band, went and worked in film because I love film so much and found it intensely dull working for a blue chip company.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

She also led three acquisitions as she helped the company scale through a period of hyper-growth. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. Brant Cooper, Co-Founder of Moves the Needle.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 19, 2019

We think it’s probably the best collection of talks about building and growing great software companies available. In her inimitable style, Kathy suggests it’s not about showing users that your company is awesome – it’s about making the users awesome. – David Heinemeier Hansson (Founder/CTO, Basecamp).

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2018

Engineering reports to our fabulous CTO. What are your top 3 priorities for 2018 when it comes to your brands digital product? They want companies not only to service a functional need for them. What’s a bit unusual is that the product team at WW is also responsible for the experience in the meeting rooms. This is new for us.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Every company wields its set of Product Management activities slightly differently, making it difficult to define the function with exact clarity. But across every company, Product Management has to make decisions and achieve its objectives within four competing forces. Welcome to the best role in the company.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. So what are your next steps? So what are you going to do now?

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

Second, Medium is a commercial company, having raised, according to CrunchBase , $163 million (so far). To my knowledge no company with such resources has started a public Mastodon instance to date. Williams also served as one of Twitter’s numerous CEOs. I like paying for the services I use.

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Basel Fakhoury

MAY 17, 2018

In the rest of this post, I’ll share how we relied on meta-user research to build a product that is now used by research, design, and product teams at the most innovative companies in the world. Companies gluing together other tools is always a good sign that there is a need in the market. We also had a bunch of qualitative insights.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In his talks Peldi updates the BoS Community on the story of Balsamiq, and the ups and downs that come with running a growing, bootstrapped SaaS company. And I’ve made 10 million euros out of this little company.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. companies that everyone agrees are awesome at what they do. So we decided to curate a list of the best of the best?—?companies

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Previously, he was at HubSpot as Chief Product Officer after they acquired his company Performable. In this (fireless) Fireside chat, we delve into what inspires and motivates David, how he came to start five different companies, and how he leads a high-growth company. What was the first company?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Great managers look out for you and want to make sure your career interests are being considered, but managers aren’t always fully aware of all the opportunities a company might have. You can’t really execute if people aren’t motivated and excited about the company mission. Nick: No, I don’t think that’s the case.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. Melissa Kwan : “I quit my job in SAP and wanted to start a company that uses technology. I run that company for 4 years (bootstrapped) and got acquired in 2019.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Liam Geraghty: But first, how do you bring growth marketing to a high-growth company? Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. Things like media companies, finance companies, retail companies, sales functions, marketing functions, and customer support.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. So I started my company which is called Bluefish 20 years ago in Austin Texas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress in early 2018. No, I think the real reason is evident in this quote: OH (a former CTO of Autodesk): “I can walk through most buildings and tell you which version of AutoCad was used to design it. “. — Robert Stephens (@rstephens) August 9, 2018. Consider kaizen.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

Pendo is a product engagement platform that helps businesses better understand their users and is a Series-D company backed by Sapphire Ventures, Battery Ventures, and Spark Capital. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. But later I realized I was effectively also serving as the PM of the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

We hear about his time at Atlassian before G2 and the differences in approach to SEO at both companies. It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As product management becomes such an in-demand, lucrative career option, companies are carving out markets with offerings that enhance a product manager’s job to build and optimize customer-centric products. A good mix of attendees from B2B and B2C software technology companies. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today we’re excited to launch Amplitude Engage, a behavioral targeting solution that helps companies act on their first-party behavioral data in campaigns. With these three steps, Amplitude with Amplitude Engage helps companies deliver tailored campaigns to specific audiences in the context of their behavior.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people. ” Well, no, they haven’t.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Video, Slides and Transcript below.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. We try not to do that.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. We try not to do that.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

You might have to try different options to see which is best for you company and team size, skill level, project complexity and more. Speaking at BoS Europe in 2018, Tim talks about some of the lessons learned he learned during some very trying days for his company DataSift. Watch The many flavours of Agile. 3 // Leadership.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company. “I have been very fortunate in my career to work for some of the largest and world’s best companies as well as small innovative start-ups. in Political Economy and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.”

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology cognitive science human needs and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.”. A very large taxi company, a very large sports brand, AirBnB as well as lots and lots of other businesses. Something the world didn’t know was missing.

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