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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. They are archetypal BoS talks: honest, full of insight, and give you a peek behind the curtain at the inner workings of a successful SaaS company. Few customers, happy. Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder/CEO, Balsamiq. It was my dream.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

As always the core of the conference is our line-up of amazing speakers, and the insights and stories they bring to the conference is what starts all those conversations. Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest.

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International Women’s Day: Reflections from female leaders in product & tech

Mixpanel

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. Sponsorship vs. mentorship.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

And far from being a company that was going to deliver a whole bunch of customers who were going to be innovative adopters the likes of people who buy Apple products, actually where 3G had to play in the end was with cheap voice for effectively ‘chavs’ is the way they called it. And that wasn’t even 3G. So the iPhone was a 2G product.

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10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team | Jane Austin, Babylon Health | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

But one company that did is IBM – they recently spent over 100 million pounds to hire I mean like literally hundreds of designers across the world and they’re transforming their business from a kind of feature technology business into a design user centered business. And together we did the user research because this is a team sport.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

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. We had high relevance.