Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Leadership Forum.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 3) Start with customer needs. (4)

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Product strategy begins with figuring out exactly what kind of user that you want to serve and what use case that you want to serve for them. And I think that, in a B2B setting, you need to figure out both what kinds of companies that you’re going to serve and then what kind of users within those companies you’re going to serve.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Product strategy begins with figuring out exactly what kind of user that you want to serve and what use case that you want to serve for them. And I think that, in a B2B setting, you need to figure out both what kinds of companies that you’re going to serve and then what kind of users within those companies you’re going to serve.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Meet the mentors….

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

. “Why isn’t my strategic customer’s feature request included?” And we [product managers] are often too shy or subtle to give them really clear feedback about their requests. “Our top two enhancements were requested by dozens of customers, including big players A, B, C and D.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

This insightful article from McKinsey & Company talks about today’s product manager evolving into a mini-CEO. 5 Designing Your Product’s Continuous Feedback Loop. Sachin Rekhi, founder and CEO at Notejoy , a collaborative notes app for teams, writes about capturing user feedback. So do your customers.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” “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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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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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 ). Teresa: Who are your typical customers? Were you engaging with your customers?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. That turned into an agency because everyone wanted their version customized. The feedback I got when I was leaving was “we hired you because as a diversity”. Again…Why?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

They are archetypal BoS talks: honest, full of insight, and give you a peek behind the curtain at the inner workings of a successful SaaS company. Few customers, happy. And then after a while I had to give up the dream because I was hiring too many customers so I had to. You know that’s what I wanted. It was my dream.

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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, it starts with this, like, you have to kind of put yourself in the shoes of a customer.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. DC : Drift basically helps B2B businesses connect with the customers that are interested in buying now that are on their website. David Cancel is a 5x founder and 2x CEO with four successful exits to date.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

But one company that did is IBM – they recently spent over 100 million pounds to hire I mean like literally hundreds of designers across the world and they’re transforming their business from a kind of feature technology business into a design user centered business. And together we did the user research because this is a team sport.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

And far from being a company that was going to deliver a whole bunch of customers who were going to be innovative adopters the likes of people who buy Apple products, actually where 3G had to play in the end was with cheap voice for effectively ‘chavs’ is the way they called it. And that wasn’t even 3G. So the iPhone was a 2G product.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having strong and accomplished female professionals in important leadership roles. What does this balance look like to me?

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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. When taken in the context of his ‘coming of age’ alongside SEO it’s little wonder that his insights on the topic are worth hearing. We were delighted to have him join us for this week’s episode.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

Everybody’s slowing down, including your customers so often, we’re b2b. 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? And then we’ll start again later.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We partnered with Tumblr, WordPress, bit.ly, a whole load of companies that had public data that we can help other companies gain insight from. And we made it low friction because our customers were developers, ones that might want to get their hands on the data, start working with that building analytical products. Developers!

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