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. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor.

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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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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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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

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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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. So let’s start with the positioning, like what exactly is level jump?

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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. In fact one of the guys that we used to create a remix for the bands he progressed by himself and he’s now in a position where. We were in a position where. And this was a great concept.

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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

This is an entry-level position, for someone who is brand new to the role. The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. Product Director / Group Product Manager.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Describe the path to your current position and the role mentorship has had in your career growth. “What got me in the door is someone believing in me, then I took the burden of proof as a mission in every position I ever got. ” Netali Jakubovitz Group Product Manager, Doodle.

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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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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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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. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way. The scenarios and characters are realistic and familiar.

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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. Tweet This It’s clear from these results that focusing on a single outcome is still a minority position. In my experience coaching teams, this is not an automatic next step. Both are true.

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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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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

of women in each of our groups, like P&T, marketing, business, legal, finance and sales, among others. I think StubHub has a lot more women in leadership positions and emphasizes gender equality in an ongoing basis. We are making efforts to move in the direction of increasing diversity and I’m seeing the positive effects every day.

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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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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

And then I’ve really only started companies as a byproduct of I have an obsessive personality and I channel that in a positive area which is like I’m obsessed with learning and getting better. 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

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. But once we make that decision as a group, I need you to stop dissenting and I need you to get on board and support the decision. 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.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So this was based on a small group of customers but they felt that this was right. So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). We worked out exactly how the floor would work. Here’s one example at MOO.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Jen gave critical insight on how to provide training, coaching, assets, and tools through Gainsight’s CS Enablement. Effective strategies begin with three thoughts: will this have a net negative, a net neutral, or a net positive impact on your customers. Enablement: The Key to CS Success starring Jen Bruno, Gainsight’s Senior.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then you want to go and really focus on those users and make sure that you’re in a position where you think you can out-serve them compared to any other company that’s out there. They’re split into four groups: analysis, data, admin and growth. What we ended up with though in those groups is kind of a blend.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

And then you want to go and really focus on those users and make sure that you’re in a position where you think you can out-serve them compared to any other company that’s out there. They’re split into four groups: analysis, data, admin and growth. What we ended up with though in those groups is kind of a blend.

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