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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different.

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Who is “the Customer?” by Luke Taylor

Mind the Product

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. The CIO or CTO may not be the budget holder, but they may control the purchasing decision.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

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. Without a clear hiring strategy and crisp criteria, interviewers naturally choose candidates most like themselves. How many/how long?”

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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8 Keys to Getting Started

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

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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When You Lead Daily Standups, What Are Your Best Techniques?

The Product Coalition

We asked four product leaders: “Outside of the popular tips and techniques experts recommend — what are your best strategies for how you lead daily standups?” I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader.