Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As Gainsight PX CTO Mickey Alon discussed with Carlos Gonzales Villaumbrosia, Founder & CEO of Product School and author of The Product Book , the solution isn’t complicated—it’s product-led growth. Product leaders across B2B face a similar reckoning—will you do what users need from you now, or wait until the outrage rises?

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. This new idea is going to leverage artificial intelligence to better serve B2B customers with targeted advertising solutions to end customers, or real people out on the street. So if it’s a B2B environment, it’s a discussion with them. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The parallels to what’s happening today in B2B software with product-led growth are striking. Wes Bush, Founder and CEO of ProductLed , and Mickey Alon, Founder and CTO of Gainsight PX, discussed this phenomenon in their Pulse for Product session.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers. “Most of my work is external facing,” he says. “Earlier today, I was speaking to someone in a team of two who described themselves as product ops.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. ” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. “If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it” Liam: And is it the standard for B2B companies?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Jordan is a Management level, revenue-driven, B2B SaaS Product Management and Project Management leader. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. Meet the mentors….

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Cloud has Fundamentally Changed B2B Selling. Before the Cloud, software had to be sold into a central decision maker – a CIO or CTO – and then rolled out across the company’s desktop-user base. B2B Metrics now are More Like B2C Metrics. Be Empathetic to Central Buyers – They Have Valid Concerns.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. I do see a big divide between B2C and B2B/enterprise products, and therefore their product managers. And I almost never buy it.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Bianca Starling Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Bianca Starling Bianca Starling is a Senior Product Manager at Voxy, a global language teaching platform that uses AI and machine learning technologies to provide adaptive, real-life learning experiences to learners.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

This high-consideration, high-intent signup funnel is similar to the problems FinTech companies might face, or a B2B company facing a long, complicated API integration. Andrew Chen: I think this is one of the reasons why B2B SaaS companies have a recurring revenue model. I should take it when I’m out and about.”.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. knowledge, but then when we transitioned to B2B, then it was like, “How do security teams use walkie-talkies, and how do retail stores use walkie-talkies?”

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Gainsight

JULY 1, 2022

We have seen companies achieve durable growth and success by deploying a PLG model across different market segments in B2B and B2C. Chief Technology Officer of PX, Gainsight. We wanted to track and understand where companies across all verticals fall on the PLG spectrum. Mickey Alon. Key Findings.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The expertise and value we deliver to our clients have been recognized by the reputable B2B service rating platform, Clutch. Sacramento custom web design company serving B2B customers. Is there anything we can do for you? Contact us , and let’s discuss your current challenges and goals. Cinch Web Design.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A good mix of attendees from B2B and B2C software technology companies. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. A good 25 percent is director level and above. Other attendees tend to be from marketing, design, and engineering. Which industries are the attendees from?

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

The internet culture supply chain works like this: Asia US teens Adults B2B. Want to know what B2B communication/collaboration will look like in 5 years? My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. First it was big in Japan, then teens. Now we all use it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

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. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

The internet culture supply chain works like this: Asia US teens Adults B2B. Want to know what B2B communication/collaboration will look like in 5 years? My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. First it was big in Japan, then teens. Now we all use it.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

My goal has always been to positively impact the lives of people going through life-changing diseases whilst also forging the way for other female leaders in the technology industry.” ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth. Returning home to London, I worked as a product manager for a B2B data tech startup.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

Everybody’s slowing down, including your customers so often, we’re b2b. Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This is a B2B product. You know when you look at the trajectory of high growth companies especially in B2B enterprise, I think we rank up there pretty much at the top of them, the top right. We had one of our execs in our New York office. We had high relevance. We also drove a huge amount of inbound.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

DC : Drift basically helps B2B businesses connect with the customers that are interested in buying now that are on their website. You’ve spoken a couple of times before; you’ve been on lots of other occasions as well. Give us the 30 second elevator pitch on Drift. ML : Describe David Cancel. DC : In 30 seconds?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Actually the most significant part of our business is the B2B. So we have this huge range of our B2B clients and we were told if we get it could give them a better approval flow we’d be able to get and recruit many more big businesses to our platform. It was absolutely brilliant. 26 hours there are 27 back.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And I think that, in a B2B setting, you need to figure out both what kinds of companies that you’re going to serve and then what kind of users within those companies you’re going to serve. How would you approach building your process or pipeline to receive customer feedback for a B2B product?

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And I think that, in a B2B setting, you need to figure out both what kinds of companies that you’re going to serve and then what kind of users within those companies you’re going to serve. How would you approach building your process or pipeline to receive customer feedback for a B2B product?

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