Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Ken Norton needs no introduction. Should you go work at a startup?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Guest Post by: Tiago Resmini (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Erdem Ay ]. A common thing in product management is business leaders (like the head of product or the CTO) not having clear sight of every problem happening with a product or one specific part of a product. More About The Product Mentor.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . Coaching/mentoring/training plan.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. There’s definitely tech leads in our groups.

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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.

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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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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. This could include everything from studying leadership and business books, meeting with mentors or teachers, and enrolling in management classes and bootcamps.

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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

Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Getting groups of stakeholders to “buy” the roadmap includes answering their unspoken questions. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Most people know what mentoring is: you find a leader, someone you respect, you grab coffee with them every so often, you unload your problems on them, and they give you some coaching and advice, which is useful.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

He’s also run a small R&D group at the BBC and developed products for UpMyStreet, Time Out, Jawbone, Nokia and many others. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO. Kate Leto, Product Coach.

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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 Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) R&D is not correlated to innovation. 2) 10x Thinking. (3)

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And you need to understand how the groups differ. My first job out of college was with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as an individual contributor as well. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Silicon Valley Product Group published this intriguing article. Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO. But you can’t disagree with the success he’s achieved as the team builder for Chrome and Android. #18

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And if you don’t know the reference, that would be, the “5 Dysfunctions of a Team” sort of behavior where, rather than protecting my pillar, I really want to, instead, instill a group of common goals around what those silos used to be. We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

Guest Post by: Andraž Zvonar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dimitris Sotiriou ]. That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO. I would then work with the CTO to incorporate their suggestions and improvements.

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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. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution. Design Thinking 101’ by Nielsen Norman Group. Reference: Design Systems 101 by Nielsen Norman Group.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. At your company, they might be called Chief Product Officer, VP Product, Director of Product Management, or Group Product Lead.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

A senior product manager does the same thing as a product manager but has a senior title either in recognition of their contributions, the relative importance of their product, or to reflect the fact that they also spend time mentoring more junior product managers. Product Director / Group Product Manager.

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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. It’s like a better way of sharing materials with a group.

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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. A lot of the companies that we were working with said gala got a Gala Group before they joined to Coral and our big owners were LeisureLink. And this was a great concept. And he said Yeah no problem.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The concept of a Structured Conversations is a useful tool for group collaboration and innovation. She provides coaching, training, and facilitates discovery and planning workshops across diverse industries. He is a West Point graduate, former fighter pilot and cancer researcher, as well as CTO of eleven different software companies.

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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 ). We did focus groups, folks did taxi ridealongs, we did some UX prototype testing, and so forth.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

” Netali Jakubovitz Group Product Manager, Doodle. “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. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Description: A three-day event with rich content in several tracks, brain dates with coolest minds in SaaS, mentoring sessions with entrepreneurs from all around the world and the opportunity to score VC funding from billionaires!

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. Now the Vice President of Product at Business Talent Group , she has honed her expertise into a set of best practices and published them in two books: UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. The narrative describes the evolution of a small startup from a lack of strategy and alignment to a focused and mindful working group. .

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

The reason why it’s so hard for the first group to believe that the second group exists is because they’ve never seen it. 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).

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

So the first one is: “Ready for another group therapy session?”. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. So this was the title of the talk. Loneliness.

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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. And I used to play with friends online in groups.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. This will see him transition CTO responsibilities to a to-be-determined successor at the end of FY22. Sri joined as Atlassian’s first CTO in January 2016, shortly after our initial public offering. A fond farewell.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group. 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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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

of women in each of our groups, like P&T, marketing, business, legal, finance and sales, among others. 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. A group of Stubbers at last year’s Grace Hopper Conference.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. The CTO or VP Engineering and the rest of your tiny development team build stuff, because until we have something to sell we don’t actually need sales people.

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