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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. We felt fortunate to even be in a position to start the company when we did, and that appreciation has just fueled this really unprecedented year. Adam: It was, again, just being in a position where we felt comfortable to do it. Caught your interest?

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes. When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

And the men got more replies too, so that it didn’t feel like it was devolving into a copy-paste messaging exercise. They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones.

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Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs

Product Talk

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 ). Who was deciding on that output? Were they just like, “Yes, let’s do this”?

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Remember when social media was going to be all things about positive change for the world and people had big banners that said “thank you Facebook”? It was a really useful exercise to get a really tight plan. Information sharing is all positive. The first one is market relevance. Making sloppy decisions.