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How do you solve your product problems?

Business of Software Conference

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching. Can I submit a question in advance?

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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. They likely don’t have all the answers.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He also led product management at social networking pioneer Friendster, and was the cofounder and CEO of YourVersion, a TechCrunch award-winning personalized news startup. Conference Tickets.

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

Business of Software Conference

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. 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. And we worked with management and so on but we never told any of these guys – the dealers.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. But I got hired as a coordinator for resource management, which meant that I had to coordinate very highly technical architects for projects. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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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. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. But if I’m the only manager, who’s flying the plane? Very little drama.