ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Seeing the big-picture vision and possessing versatility enables product managers to impact, even when the spotlight falls on others instead. 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?

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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. Wodtke says that OKRs are effective because they blend vision (the lofty objective) with metrics (the measurable key results).

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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?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

And you know what they say as well – at some point the CEO has to step back and take a strategic role so they have time to do visioning and look at the market and not be involved in the day to day of the operation. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. You’re all nodding like of course you idiot.

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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.

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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.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. So I dropped in over at ObservableHQ to get up to speed on Observable Notebooks—only to find that Observable had changed course. Typer from Tiangolo looks like a promising solution, by the way).

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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. So I just googled “Leading expert computer vision”. I felt the computer vision was crucial. And this was a great concept. And he said Yeah no problem. And it had its telephone number.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. Sponsorship vs. mentorship.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. In addition to this, our conversation also covers his time at Altassian and contrasts this with his G2 role, his thoughts on Google updates and how they impact his industry and his vision for the future of SEO.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals. So I can actually force people to take the course. You need the Point of View pitch.

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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.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 9, 2025

1] Today, there is an abundance of strategies—think of business, marketing, sales, technology, operations, and, of course, product strategy, for example. If you are looking for a tool to capture the product strategy, try my Product Vision Board , which you can download for free together with a handy checklist from my website.

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