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Podcast: Too Many Product Managers with Ken Norton

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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! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Ken Norton needs no introduction. Should you go work at a startup?

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

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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. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

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It’s been quite entertaining over the years, actually, there been a lot of people. Did you say oh, well, my consulting company was called info zerk. And that that as opposed to starting a business where the principal driver is raising money, because then you kind of work out what you’re what you’re doing.

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Here’s what our Business of Software Conference USA 2018 Speakers are Reading

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In honor of the recent passing of Gerald Weinberg, I’ll choose my favorite of his: The Secrets of Consulting. Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting. Entertaining and thought provoking! Most influential book: There are many to choose from. (I I guess I’m easily influenced.)

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

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So there is discussion and other people involved in that discussion, we consult with other people and other people bring their ideas to us. Like it wouldn’t be fun, wouldn’t be entertaining ,wouldn’t be interesting to us. Like it’s sometimes it can be months. Other times it can be days. Attendee Thank you.