Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Robin Salimans, CTO at Luna “I say this about every new Intercom feature, but this time, I’m telling the truth – this could be my favorite! A number of our customers love this feature and have had great success with it so far: “Intercom’s new Expand feature is a game changer for me and my team at Kala Burdo Consulting. Great stuff!”

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

Intercom has responded by hiring a diversity and inclusion consultant, updating our recruitment strategy and hiring practices to reduce bias, scheduling allyship training for all employees, and amplifying Black voices in our podcast and blog. In other cases, we made our best guess based on the product area.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. Do your own review first so you can be confident and better positioned. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Responsibilities of Product Management.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This article summarizes companies that offer product design services and the most frequent questions to help you pick the best web design company in Sacramento, California. Our independent research ranks design companies based on their portfolio, skills, capabilities, and pricing. How to choose the best Sacramento web design company?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Before it became a world sensation, the company was called Tiny Specs, and their initial product had nothing to do with collaboration in the workplace. What not many know is that Slack hired a design firm to refine its product in the early stages. It just works best when you know exactly what your end-product should be.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

From major players in the field such as Delphix and ADP to Okta, Lumen, and Glint, get ready to hear about Customer Success Operations, CS at Scale, CS Strategy, Human First Customer Success, and Product Experience. Focus on the people behind your product. Product Adoption and Experience. How clean is your data?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The product backlog I managed grew daily. And I diligently added the stories to the backlog. Feature request?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. Product Vision. Band vs Orchestra.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. First, some context.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Current reading: I’m currently in the middle of reading a whole slew of books on JTBD, for the research I’m doing on the topic. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

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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. Mind the Product. Industry: The Product Conference.

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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. Mind the Product. Industry: The Product Conference.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

MosaicML’s Revenue Model Isn’t Models Counterintuitively, although MPT-30B and 7B come from MosaicML, models aren’t the product, but rather enablers of Mosaic’s actual products—training and inference services. But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In Japan, the food tech and nutritionally balanced food product industries didn’t exist and consumers weren’t familiar with the concept of the industry. That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. Make it easier to eat nutrient-rich foods.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Customers look to Atlassian for innovative products that take the “work” out of teamwork, and we’re committed to coming through for them. We’re building a cloud platform that lets us ship new capabilities and products quickly, as we’re beginning to see with Point A. Solving them takes cross-functional collaboration.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

We know that trying to take in over a dozen talks all at once isn’t easy, so we’ve broken them down into easy to digest groups: Product. 1 // Product. Watch Positioning for Growth. Watch What to do about your audience's Product Roadmap questions. Watch the Product Roadmapping Q&A. Leadership.

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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. Mind the Product. Industry: The Product Conference.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. So the iPhone was a 2G product. In fact one of the guys that we used to create a remix for the bands he progressed by himself and he’s now in a position where. And then I think I was in a position where again wondering what to do next. So more fail.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

The launch of Hey, Basecamp’s new email service, has become one of the most talked about product launches of 2020- not least because of the very public fight with the Apple store. This session includes many questions from the audience as Jason discusses some of the learning from Basecamp’s first product launch in a decade.

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