The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

He is now the founder of Breakthrough Ventures , providing Fractional Product Management and Product Marketing Services to software companies. He is now teaching Product Management courses to undergraduate students at Providence College, a role he greatly enjoys combining with his fractional CPO responsibilities.

CTO Coach

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. What is a staff engineer?

Technical Review

Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

A senior product manager does the same thing as a product manager but has a senior title either in recognition of their contributions, the relative importance of their product, or to reflect the fact that they also spend time mentoring more junior product managers. One Size Does Not Fit All.

Product Manager

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Of course, it also makes audits go faster and cost less. And, of course, challenging – as it should be. All of that, of course, to say leverage automation to do it. The advice we give is, of course, don’t wait. Am I right?

Reporting Tools

Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Through his time at eBay, Netscape, HP and elsewhere, Cagan has worked with lots of great product teams, and has been influential in his writing and coaching about the role of product over the years, but he acknowledges that there is still a lot of confusion about the role of a product manager.

Analytic Tools

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. This situation is very common and requires the founders to close many gaps in the way they think about product management in general and their product specifically (that’s where my mentoring services come in handy ). And are they even needed?

CTO Coach

Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

If you want help building your outcome mindset, check out our Defining Outcomes course. In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). I was surprised to see that 77.6%

Product Research

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

A sample engineering career trajectory from Kiwi.com Eventually, engineering managers can work their way up the ladder all the way to the CTO position. And, of course, through all of this, EMs must keep their projects on track. But our interview course isn't the only benefit you can get from Exponent.

Software Engineering

Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Keep reading to learn from the inspiring stories* of: Melissa Kwan – CEO and founder of ewebinar Alice de Courcy – Group Chief Marketing Officer at Cognism Maja Voje – Best-selling Author of GTM Strategist , Go-To-Market Advisor & Mentor to +400 tech startups inc. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

Technical Review

ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé? Of course, what they say they want isn’t always what they need (or want), but it is a sneak preview of how they view product management today.

CTO Coach

Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He is now a full-time growth advisor and angel investor who helps consumer subscription companies build their growth models, develop their growth strategies, hire and scale their growth teams, and achieve their full potential. You know who you are! Thank you, Phil! Have a fulfilling and productive week 🙏 👀 Hiring?

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Over the course of the conversation you’ll learn not just about what makes a good leader, but a good ally, a good colleague, and a good friend. Liam Geraghty: An important tool for sharing knowledge is of course, Wikipedia. There we have it.

Reporting Tools

Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. What are the key skills and qualities you believe are essential for a successful CTO in the healthcare tech sector?

Technical Review

Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. The scenarios and characters are realistic and familiar. Hanna is objective and results-oriented while Jack is altruistic and purpose-driven.

Technical Advisors

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Let’s talk about my fav topic, @limebike has folks like my good friend @uber_ed_baker as an advisor, and is slowly collecting ex-Uber alumni (and Lyft! Not everyone is doing startups, of course. Also Kodiak, Kache, and many others.

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. Of course the 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey has been taught to me by mentors and has been as staple throughout my career. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Deckle Edge. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

CTO Coach

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. You’re all nodding like of course you idiot. And so we were like hey it’s going to work. Yeah right.

CTO Coach

Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

A Murder at the End of the World grew on me over the course of the season, and by seasons end it had reached “definitely watch” status. Not the highest possible status, “Can It Be Tuesday Already Please?” ” which is, at the moment, held by Hulu’s new Shōgun series. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

Technical Advisors

Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The most successful teams I've coached have one or more people in each role. But for the long term, let's get marketing to solve this for all sales teams—with an ebook or a video explanation by our CTO for the reasons behind your choices. . Of course, it doesn't hurt to be technical. for the products available today.

CTO Coach

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? As was the case when they were junior engineers, Senior Software Engineers will usually help train or act as mentors for entry-level engineers on their teams. These duties and responsibilities are just scaled up, of course.

Software Engineering

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

And of course, the mechanic of swiping itself is a way to make sure people don’t feel overwhelmed. They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. Tinder also had built-in messaging so that you didn’t have to give out your number.

Research Software

Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

Feedback Software

Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Much like any successful head coach in professional sports, the product manager ultimately is the leader of a team. Instead, present them with the information they need to know: outline the problem, AND the course of action you are recommending. Think for the product leadership team! Finally, don’t make the leadership team think.

Leadership

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 ). We’ve had some changing roles over time as the company grew, of course.

Product Research

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Let’s talk about my fav topic, @limebike has folks like my good friend @uber_ed_baker as an advisor, and is slowly collecting ex-Uber alumni (and Lyft! Not everyone is doing startups, of course. Also Kodiak, Kache, and many others.

User Testing

Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

So I dropped in over at ObservableHQ to get up to speed on Observable Notebooks—only to find that Observable had changed course. Though Observable Notebooks are still alive and well (and will, I suspect, get even better , as of February, the company’s primary focus has shifted to what they are calling Observable Framework.

Data Visualization

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Level 2 is hey I want you to handle this but give me regular updates so I can course correct along the way. So this lets me kind of course correct a little bit if I need to or sometimes the business changes over the course of the quarter right. Super effective.

Weak Development Team

Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. And then everything collapsed and inspired gaming group over the course of next year they were a publicly listed business, their share price went down ninety nine point nine percent.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Strangely this exception of some really good physical product design courses like the one at Loughborough but it’s generally taught at art schools and it’s generally really behind the times so great designers have to learn on the job. Very few people emerge as a fully fledged designer. Crossed our fingers but actually no.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

Engineering

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

Analytic Tools

svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

Reporting Tools

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. So I can actually force people to take the course. That’s an improvement.

Research Software

BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people. ” You wouldn’t hire somebody out with a 2-day scrum master course and say “ we can make them a software architect.”. The product management thing can’t be that hard.

Startups

Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So the way I’ve been kind of trying to coach some teams and just think it through is if we if you were used to managing a person face to face, and now all of a sudden you’re behind a screen, right? So you want to have those course correction chances early on, so that you can adjust. Yeah, I agree. Natalie Nagele.

Weak Development Team

Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point. And of course, they have zero understanding of anything at all.

Artificial Inteligence

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

So this is me when I went to Disney with Greg who was 5 years old (he’s 16 now) and we just walked through the golden gates of Disneyland and of course as you know if you’ve been there as you walk down main street there’s a whole load of candy stores, temptations. That’s the entrepreneur’s mission summarized there.

Customer Experience