The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an and during?—?the

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Scott Berkun explains more in his excellent book, How Design Makes the World … “This complexity would be the cathedral’s undoing. “We like to think that, here in the present day, with almost nine hundred years of technological progress from the time the Notre-Dame cathedral was designed, failures like this would be impossible.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

He leads the Boston Product Management Association and is a head judge at the annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. Bruce’s latest best seller, Product Roadmapping Relaunched is one of our top recommended books for every product leader. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. Here are my 4 key takeaways: 1.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 19, 2019

You may well be familiar with Kathy’s work, possibly through her book ‘Badass: Making Users Awesome’ This talk, given 3 years before the book was released, is better than whatever you think the best thing since sliced bread is. – David Heinemeier Hansson (Founder/CTO, Basecamp). A must watch.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

.” It was then that April realized nobody knew how to answer the question or create a formal marketing positioning statement. . What Product Positioning Is and Is Not. “Positioning is an interesting concept,” April stated.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

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. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s Syms School of Business with a degree in Marketing. Dominic Gadoury Director Product Management, ADP.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

So I thought I’d share some of my favorite reading materials that have helped me through my career in product—and are still crowding my bookmarks tab. If I listed books, we’d be here forever.) 12 things about product-market fit. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. Author: Tren Griffin.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And so this set of data right here, I pulled from this amazing book called The Challenger Sale, which did it did a great big long to go in depth research study of what makes a good salesperson effective.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dear readers, I’ve only been writing sporadically recently on here — mostly because I’m working on a new book project (more to come soon on that!!) My partner at a16z, Scott Kupor, wrote a book recently and I excerpted it here, and talked a bit about why startups are a hard industry, looking at the numbers.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. At the enterprise level within companies, this is why you’re always going to need technology leadership. Fix it he did.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. Each department wants to hire in its own image. Let’s unpack.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

Tell us about how you broke into product management. Before Pendo, I was a VP of product at Rally Software. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. I had frankly never heard of the role of product management at that time. I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Product management has always been a cross-functional discipline responsible for working with multiple groups including engineering, marketing, sales, and support. So much so that a book by that same name appears on just about every must-read list for product managers.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Dear readers, I’ve only been writing sporadically recently on here — mostly because I’m working on a new book project (more to come soon on that!!) My partner at a16z, Scott Kupor, wrote a book recently and I excerpted it here, and talked a bit about why startups are a hard industry, looking at the numbers.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

40:38 James Avery, Kevel: But it really got myself and my VP of Marketing, thinking just about positioning a lot more, right, we both read the book, I saw her speak again, at the virtual conference. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

These networking dinners enjoy a great deal of popularity among veteran attendees and get booked out nearly 3 weeks before the event. Notable Speakers from the recent INDUSTRY conferences: Dan Olsen, Product Management Consultant, Author, and Trainer. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

We’ve wrote a lot of books and put a lot of ideas out there, i a lot of people would say where we kind of go against the grain in our industry. Yeah, I haven’t, like really paid attention what he’s been doing lately, but he wrote a book. And that book really influenced David and I. Do you know Ricardo Semler?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And if quotes like no one will ever put a credit card online no one will ever buy anything but books online. Well you know like I lost my bleeping 401K stock to Yahoo’s stock but et cetera et cetera we’re shutting down e-commerce. E-commerce is dead. Department like all of these things make for nice stories now.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So that book, deep work by Cal Newport is one of my favourites, and I sent it to everybody on the team, and it helps you kind of think through what your schedule should look like. So all those people who say the CEOs have to get up at 5am 4am, and do 90 minutes of exercise and read 20 books, I woke up at nine this morning.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

I think, maybe my proudest, so this is Badass – Kathy Sierra’s Book. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And some of the speakers that deserve a voice and are super interesting people. And I think this is a it’s a super valuable read.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. April Dunford UK Book Launch Tour BoS USA 2019 BoS Europe 2020. He’s just written an absolutely wonderful book. I discovered this book when I got invited to talk in Chile.

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