Consulting Fractional CTO Messaging Startups 
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Stewart Butterfield, the company’s CEO, saw the commercial potential in a new messaging application that would utilize bots and integrations with other tools frequently used in software development.
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. A few years later, joined a startup. I could do my work very well.
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Product Talk
MAY 10, 2023
To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?
Business of Software Conference
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business. Read on to find out who is returning and to watch their previous knockout talks. 1 // Mikey Trafton.
BrainMates
APRIL 30, 2018
The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. 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. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos. So what are your next steps?
Mironov Consulting
JANUARY 17, 2019
Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.
Business of Software Conference
JUNE 27, 2019
Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. We’re a software consulting company we build custom software for Fortune 500 companies. So the tool I like to use is called RACI and it stands for Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed. They don’t know what you want them to do. I’m counting on you OK.
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