Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

But because it’s the most common title what’s important to consider is what product they manage – if they’re a product manager for Facebook’s News Feed and impact billions of users they’re probably more senior and experienced than a product manager at a brand new startup. Senior Product Manager. One Size Does Not Fit All.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Of course, it also makes audits go faster and cost less. Caught your interest?

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. The org chart for a very early startup usually looks like this: the CEO does everything except tech. What kills startups are massive numbers of opportunities and no hard choices about which things are important.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training. We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

I was hanging out with an ex-Airbnb colleague ( Ali Rauh ), who suggested her friend Elizabeth for the podcast (before she was promoted to CTO of Netflix). Marily Nika : Marily taught a popular course on Maven , and the Maven team reached out to pitch Marily for the podcast. based startups. AI + product management?

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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. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. A few years later, joined a startup.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Let’s say we found that three projects went off course. Chasing free customer acquisition.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. Of course, articulate your expectations ahead of time so the designers know what they’re getting into to avoid unnecessary or uncomfortable surprises. Support Unplanned Ideas.

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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). So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

For the sake of the story and easier understanding, imagine that you and I are building a startup. Of course, the complexity will be required in order to provide these results and meet expectations, but nobody has to know about it. I’ve organized my explanation into three parts: Introducing an example. Testimonial anatomy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. Photo by Austin Distel / Unsplash Now, we've mentioned a few times that TPMs must collaborate with several teams in the course of their duties. Whereas projects are usually more temporary and focused on a single, specific deliverable.

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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.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Our regular subscribers can, of course, drop us an email any time with a question too and we will try to help. Read on… “Hi Mark, I am expecting to move into the role of CTO of a small start-up. How do I make the jump from big company to small, entrepreneurial, startup? There are really two questions here.

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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. In a vacuum, your resume or LinkedIn profile might leave people with more questions than answers: Why did you leave Microsoft for some startup that failed? Are they mentioning customers and data?

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. And of course, the mechanic of swiping itself is a way to make sure people don’t feel overwhelmed. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The next generation of workforce will want and expect the next generation of technology. Outdated and misapplied technologies are ill-suited to the tasks at hand, which creates trouble for the humans using it. By retiring technologies proactively , you can remain focused on consistently moving the needle.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We began by offering short courses, growing out of the Massive Open Online Course movement coming out of the US, dubbed by Clay Shirky as education’s MP3. We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU).

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup. Head of Product or Product Director.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup. I think that's because often, as a founder CEO or founder CTO, you end up having a ton of product responsibility. They end up joining a health tech startup and bring that domain expertise to bear in that role of product management.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. 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. Mark Cohen (CTO): I’m gonna start crossing over into product land. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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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. 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. Kevin: Absolutely.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

The challenge with this, of course, is we already have a ton of existing Redditors, so we have to make sure their old experiences translate well into this new experience. ” But I work in startups. 30 days is a long time at a startup, so I would dispute that you should wait and do nothing for 30 days. Nick: Totally.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. Because, of course, they’re more qualified users, so the conversions are higher.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. Because, of course, they’re more qualified users, so the conversions are higher.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “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.

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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. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup. So I’m a little startup in the sales enablement space. April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. I tried it.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Of course, most of the Mac user base was not on new PowerMacs, they were on 'regular' Macs -- hardware upgrade cycles were much slower then. Camille went on to join the YouTube team, and then lead product at London-based Hailo, and now I’m very happy to say that she’s the new CEO of NYC-based startup, Kit.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right? Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. We’ve had some changing roles over time as the company grew, of course.

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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.

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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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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. We have to basically succeed by delivering disruptive differentiated technology because there’s no way we’ll win on cash – the US always wins on cash. In the course of a year working with them they just kept shrinking the team. SAP $121bn company.

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