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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

Mind the Product

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Ken has also been a keynote speaker, giving inspiring talks at Mind the Product conferences in both London ( 10x not 10% , 2015) and San Francisco ( Please Make Yourself Uncomfortable , 2016).

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Beats, Bootstrapping and Life – Mat Clayton on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. and at conferences across the US and Europe. Quote of the Episode.

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

But as an executive leader in your organization, whether you’re a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, or the primary sponsor of a product development team, there are several things you can–no, should –do to greatly increase the chances that design can make a difference to your organization’s bottom line.

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The Chocolate Cake Problem

Mironov Consulting

  Engineering-grade testing and code re-use are often discussed but almost never put in place.  And This post comes out of a March talk at the Business of Software conference.  My  Then, as quickly as possible, the team shifts to the next post-sale implementation.  

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

We chose these particular standard technologies, or boring technologies, because over time these are the technologies that are the safest and fastest for us to use. They’re really battle tested, well trained, well understood and well supported. Ciaran, our CTO , came up with this magical line.

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

I’ll speak at three conferences. Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). To a Learning goal: “Learn how A/B testing could impact our conversion rate.”. I’ll be on five podcasts by July.

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Hypotheticals in Product Management Meetup: Abridged Transcript

BrainMates

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Mark Cohen (CTO): The first thing is to understand who else is actively doing something in the space, and try and get your head around how they’re doing it. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.