Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I recently spoke at the Y Oslo conference in Oslo, Norway. I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. Teresa Torres: I chuckled a little bit there because I gave a conference talk in 2016 in Lisbon. I think that was in 2004. Does that work together?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2019

This connection to both APAC hubs and major international airports played a key part in our decision to bring the conference to the city. The reputation of our conferences is founded on our ability to secure the world’s most inspirational speakers on product management. A Line-up of Inspirational Speakers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

” Uri is dedicated to creating impactful startups that solve real-world problems and has seen everything from failure to moderate success to big success. This is the biggest driver of startup success. Don’t waste this valuable real estate on showing your company name or “Thank you.”

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Back in March, I spoke at ProductCamp Cascadia (an online conference hosted by ProductCamp Portland , ProductCamp Seattle , and ProductCamp Vancouver ) exploring the topic of design justice. Many tech companies that make voice assistants justify their use of female names and voices by saying that’s what people prefer.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

While we’ve talked to lots of brilliant people, the original idea for the podcast wasn’t to focus on the big names of the product world ( Ken Norton , Melissa Perri , Josh Seiden , Theresa Torres , Dan Olsen , and Rich Mironov to name a few…) but to spotlight people who gave a great talk at their local ProductTank.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

His fourth startup NumberFour is one of the most curiously awaited product launches in 2017. We want to live up to the name of our event and give various opportunities for attendees to engage. Get your MTP Engage Hamburg tickets today! Marco Börries. Making Ideas Work in a Complex World.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We worked with organizations of all descriptions from the earliest startups to multinational foundations and giant corporations. Erika: It all started a decade ago when I gave a talk at the Future of Web Apps conference in London about copy in the interface. The importance of naming. Is this a name that’s easy to remember?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Also, Andrew Tokeley (AKA ‘Tokes’) who drives the Wellington community and is trying to support and impact the NZ startup community. We’re as far as it is possible to be from all three of the main Mind the Product conferences (which we may have mentioned before…).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Answer: By carving out time in your crazy schedule to attend at least one of the following top-notch conferences. We’ve handpicked six conferences that are seriously worth that time in terms of quality content and people. First, this conference is essential for keeping a finger on the pulse of the mobile world.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Photo by cottonbro from Pexels In the last ProductX conference, the giveaway that the participants got at the end of the day was a potted plant. I named at least 3 such attempts, and the CEO then saw and agreed that each such attempt was a step in the right direction. I chose Mint and took a lovely red pot home.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. Why you need a mechanism for free acquisition.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 22, 2017

7 years ago, I started working at my first tech startup. I remember very clearly meeting a Product Manager named Jim Lindstrom on my first day and asked to shadow him. We want to make sure that our training program matches the high quality of our conferences, meetups and workshops to date.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

My name is Jacob. Advocated by people like Alberto Savoia in Pretotyping and Eric Ries in The Lean Startup , these are good methods to test if something is valuable fast, and it is a product management skill you should learn. Many customers will try to answer in a way to make the interview pleasurable. Here is an example: Hi.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Last fall, I gave a talk at the JSDayIE conference in Dublin about how Intercom and Ember have evolved together over the past six years. Here is a model, it’s just a class with three properties that we want to track – first name, last name, and the person’s birth year.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Writing is the most scalable professional networking activity – stay home, don’t go to events/conferences, and just put ideas down. Titles are the text that’ll be featured prominently in every tweet, Facebook share, and link – and people will refer to it by name. Speaking at conferences is the worst time suck.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 23, 2025

Gainsight recently announced that we were named a Leader in the first-ever Gartner Magic Quadrant for Customer Success Management Platforms ; Gainsight was positioned highest on the Ability to Execute axis and furthest on the Completeness of Vision axis. So, in March of that year, the then-scrappy startup decided to run an experiment.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand. Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. organized by 500 Startups about B2B companies.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

Ask any startup founder to recommend you a book on analytics. With in-depth case studies from Bono and Bill Gates, this book reveals how effective OKRs are to ensure explosive growth for a startup. ? Especially popular for their nano degrees , Udacity is a popular name. Conferences. #1 Attend the conference. #2

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They noticed that a big design conference was coming to town, and all the hotels were booked. Their names were Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and they had just started Airbnb. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. Why do most startups fail? They loved that one webinar.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One-on-one meetings and conference calls are Zoom’s bread and butter, but it’s also a damn fine tool for hosting webinars that can drive people to your website. In fact, it feels pretty old school compared to some of the names of this list. Like Marketo, HubSpot is now a household name (if your house is full of marketers).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus. Trust us – you don’t want to miss this event!

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NextBigWhat

MARCH 30, 2021

Clubhouse was also competing with conferences. It almost took inspiration from these high-profile conferences, where people attend to listen to big celebrities, network with people who are just like them, ahev their wine and go back. Just that, unlike these conferences, there is very little post-event networking and friendships.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

E.G. a video conference tool that doesnt require invitees to sign up (but they can see all its unique features and feel compelled to try it). For instance, a project management app might promote team collaboration features to startups while emphasizing security and compliance to enterprise clients. Single sign-on (SSO).

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. OpenView Venture Partners’ blog offers insights into the financial side of running a startup. Interesting Articles: How Continuous Discovery Works (and Doesn’t) in Early-Stage Startups. First Round’s The Review.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Dave Wascha, CPO Photobox. Nate then became the Chief of Research and Innovation at Tanner Labs, where he built O.C.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Most of Barry’s consulting work comes from Fortune 500 companies or from heavily funded scaling startups in San Francisco and around the globe. He’s coached executive teams at Capital One, International Airlines Group, HSBC, Google, and Amazon, to name a few. Typically these coaching engagements run from three to 12 months.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And that’s why he co-wrote Play Bigger: How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets with startup advisors Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, and Christopher Lochhead. The three of them had this firm called Play Bigger and were advising startups. and the Making of IBM , and The Two-Second Advantage.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Details on Code Conference 2016 will be announced later this year.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Details on Code Conference 2016 will be announced later this year.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, product management is a new field with relatively few dedicated conferences and events. While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Details on Code Conference 2016 will be announced later this year.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 2, 2018

OK, this is an infuriating startup experience: You ship an experiment that’s +10% in your conversion funnel. Many of you have directly experienced the “Conservation of Intent” but now you have a name for it! When a +10% isn’t really a +10%. Then your revenue/installs/whatever goes up by +10% right? Why is that?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. The Lean Startup. Here’s why. You know what?

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BrainMates

JUNE 10, 2020

With an extensive background in scaling technology startups, David has helped validate new products and businesses at companies such as GE, Toyota, Adobe, HP, Behr and more. Either they do a lot of work from within the conference room, then generate a giant project plan and build a product without testing it. Testing his own ideas.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several recognitions, including The Economic Times Startup Award as the 2021 Bootstrap Champ. While writing helpful content on his personal blog, Saravana also attended many conferences and speaking engagements regarding the BizTalk server technology. Following the needed deliberations, he adopted the name Kovai.co. 5 products.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2020

This critique of ‘Spotify’s Failed Squad Model’ is interesting for two reasons: It’s a great way of adapting a planned conference talk into something else that may have impact. Of course, others argue different points, I particularly like this thread from Mikael Olenfalk who came up with the name ‘Squads’!

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Amplitude

MAY 8, 2018

Name: Brent Tworetzky Current role: Senior Vice President of Product at InVision Location: New York City. I started as a software engineer, then tried my hand as a management consultant, account manager, venture capitalist, and startup founder before I found the right fit in product management. That’s why you wake up in the morning.

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