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?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. “If you’re not leveraging automation, typically, companies spend hundreds of hours a year on compliance” Adam: Yeah, definitely. If you don’t have a SOC 2 Report, it is definitely time to get started. Definitely leverage automation.

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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? By definition, freelance software engineers are not members of the organizations that employ them. CTOs routinely lead all the technical or engineering departments at a firm. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. 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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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. Laura : “Definitely. Laura : “I haven’t.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

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). Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering.

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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: Definitely. You heard about it from a friend. How was your team working?

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

When seen through the prisms of business, gender and cultural politics, “balance” doesn’t have one definition. Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. It has many. to list a few.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

So what you’re looking for is actually the most narrow definition of those things, the most narrow definition of types of companies, and users, and problems that you want to go solve. And when you start out you always need mentors. But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

So what you’re looking for is actually the most narrow definition of those things, the most narrow definition of types of companies, and users, and problems that you want to go solve. And when you start out you always need mentors. But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right. And Sam was, he became my first mentor right. And indirectly and he kind of like a good mentor made me work super hard.

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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. Don't miss out - sign up now: Transcript. I can say, who cares a lot about that value?

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So I am very interested in in learning from Natalie what they did to adjust, but if people also have some more basic questions about how to go from having an office to being remote we can definitely talk about that too! definitely. So definitely give it make sure that everybody knows that it’s a phase. Natalie Nagele.

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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 these are the things I definitely learned – it was like how to be successful required these two things and you had to be going off real consumer challenge. And this was a great concept.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. And then we take this feedback and it goes to the manager and the manager anonymises it and obfuscates it and then uses it to coach the employee. And then some time passes and you’re like OK definitely this person is not working out and I need to terminate them.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. The Hard Side of a network is, by definition, hard to scale. Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

There’s a 3-5 year lag, but it definitely happens. 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!

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

There’s a 3-5 year lag, but it definitely happens. 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!

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