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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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle. They are easy to remember and guide engineers to make good decisions.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. 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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. 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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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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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. Leadership Forum. Kate Leto, Product Coach.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. ”) They look at roadmaps from an account-level point of view more than a market-wide perspective. Just sign here.”)

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. 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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. 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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I wanted to share what I’ve learned after doubling both product and engineering teams. This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. It helped me structure the product team and how our team interacted with the engineering team.

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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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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

12 Six Steps to Superior Prototyping: Lessons from an Apple and Oculus Engineer. When Caitlin Kalinowski became head of product design engineering at Oculus , she and her team faced a stiff challenge. Are you worried about that one metric for your product or maybe velocities for your engineering team? Author: Chris Butler.

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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. I said, “Mother, you’re right” – and I went to the economics faculty and studied marketing. Again…Why? Maybe because it’s harder for them. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Predicting results is extremely difficult in any environment, and Adam and Dave sought to acknowledge this difficulty while providing real advice around how to pivot and respond to market changes using improved efficiency and allocation of resources. That’s why we need familiarity with that level and we need to coach that level.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Sales execs want more sales-y Heads of Product; development execs want more engineering-ish Heads of Product; marketing teams want a marketer in product clothing… no candidate passes muster with all groups.

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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 ). Full Transcript Teresa Torres: Welcome, everybody. I’m Teresa Torres. ” conversation.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Then I went on with the marketing director as boom went to bust at Sportal and joined Hutchison 3G UK. That was their target market. Tom Adeyoola, Founder/CEO, Metail.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I asked who was involved in choosing outcomes and was surprised to see that such a large percentage of teams said both their team and leadership were involved. In an ideal world, outcomes should be set by both the product team and executive leadership. In my experience coaching teams, this is not an automatic next step.

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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. We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. We were delighted to have him join us for this week’s episode. Kevin: Absolutely.

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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. At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. So the team got to work.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“I started out in financial services which took me to data and CRM in marketing. ” Charlotte Morris VP Marketing and CX, Trint. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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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. Why did you bounce around between product marketing and product management? Are you a great mentor or a devoted protégé?

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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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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

On realizing he’s still too integral to the business, Peldi started the ‘Winter 2018 Injected Turbulence Project’ – delegated product design and engineering management, deleted Slack and witter from his phone, and stopped watching their internal wiki. The market has given us permission to exist for 10 years.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

By anticipating the trends in our three addressable markets, investing heavily in R&D, playing the long game with our uniquely efficient GTM model, and staying true to our values, Atlassian is delivering a metric tonne of value. Shaping the future of work across three global markets. We recently added Percept.ai

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. DC : Yeah an engineer, software engineer and then yes. ML : Describe David Cancel. DC : In 30 seconds? ML : Fantastic. What was the first company?

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

How do we move things around, if you need to alternate your schedule, like our head of director of engineering, she posted her schedule, she’s like, here it is, like, I’m only gonna be here for two hours, and I’m gone for four hours with the kid, then I’m coming back. How do we cut your schedule down?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

All of their data would run through our technology because at the other end of that there are brands and businesses that really wanted to understand what was happening on social media; what was happening around their brand, their industry, their market. The first one is market relevance. We didn’t start with this proposition.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So I’m here to tell you some things that companies do that really irritate designers so you can learn from their mistakes and you can succeed in hiring and retaining talent in this really competitive market. This shows to me that you don’t really understand design leadership and you’re not ready for it.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. Right now, we have about 100 people in engineering, product and design at Mixpanel.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil Rahilly is our VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel and formerly our VP of Engineering. And that’s the moment when those users are going to feel like, in your marketing and your product, wow, this company, this is something that’s for me. And you can really delight those users. And they’re not all the same size.

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