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

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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. It should be a good test. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. All at once.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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How To Manage Your Badass Team | Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas | BoS USA 2018

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Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. BoS USA 2018 Mikey Trafton Managing a Badass Team from Business of Software Conference. And then we take this feedback and it goes to the manager and the manager anonymises it and obfuscates it and then uses it to coach the employee. So this is why I love personality tests.

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

Mixpanel

“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. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

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

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So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. And this was a great concept. And he said Yeah no problem. So getting to the end now.

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

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And once we’ve done all this we ship and we ship tiny little increments in each one we learn we test we measure and we work out what we should do. We can do this by multivariate testing or once we know we have a direction of travel then we can build up and just continue to iterate on what we’ve released.

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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

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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. Unsubscribe anytime.