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. Unless you figure out how to inegrate work and life in a harmonious way you will never be happy.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. How does that feel? Less than a year later, Drata was launched. Caught your interest?

Reporting Tools

Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

Start by defining your long-term career goals and envision where you want to be in 5 or 10 years.

CTO Coach

Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Marty labels this inefficiency the “theater” of product management, where “fake” product managers engage in non-essential activities, often under titles like Agile coaches, product owners, product operations, or business analysts.

CTO Coach

Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. Cindy is the author of Lean Customer Development: How to Build Products Your Customers Will Buy.

Technical Cofounder

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

How to Transitioning to EM from SWE Photo by Shahadat Rahman on Unsplash The vast majority of engineering managers begin their careers as individual contributors (IC), usually as software engineers. They have to know how to competently manage people and projects, as well. Sit down with a coach from Google, Amazon, or even Facebook!

Software Engineering

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. How long should a founder be without salary?

User Testing

Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. A competent product manager may understand the basics of customer feedback, but successful product managers know how to empathize with customers during the interview process and read emotions and body language to assess pain points and inform product development.

User Testing

Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs.

Technical Advisors

The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan. It helped me structure the product team and how our team interacted with the engineering team. Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust.

CTO Coach

Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Collecting customer feedback to improve.

Research Software

Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He is now a full-time growth advisor and angel investor who helps consumer subscription companies build their growth models, develop their growth strategies, hire and scale their growth teams, and achieve their full potential. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. But the intention is, how do you close gaps? Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

Reporting Tools

Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. The other problem was how to wade through all the replies. They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. It’s a form of entertainment.[^1].

Research Software

Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “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.

Feedback Software

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? As was the case when they were junior engineers, Senior Software Engineers will usually help train or act as mentors for entry-level engineers on their teams. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons.

Software Engineering

Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

While you might be eager to dive in, it can be a little overwhelming to know how to get started. How do you make the most impact without confusing your team or disrupting the projects they’re already working on? I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?

Product Research

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. How long should a founder be without salary?

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them. How many is too many? First tip: quantity.

Weak Development Team

Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

For Mixpanel, we’re going after digital native companies and the EPDs in them to help them make decisions about how to build their products, and that’s where we ended up. But I learned how to code and then I actually discovered Mixpanel building that app and used it, and was like “this thing is so cool.”

User Testing

Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

For Mixpanel, we’re going after digital native companies and the EPDs in them to help them make decisions about how to build their products, and that’s where we ended up. But I learned how to code and then I actually discovered Mixpanel building that app and used it, and was like “this thing is so cool.”

User Testing

Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. 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. And in fact how the concept came about was a bit of fortune if you like. And this was a great concept. SAP $121bn company.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. 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).

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. They couldn’t figure out how to use the product, and it looked really dated.

Engineering

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. Now, more than a decade later, I’d like to revisit this topic.

Reporting Tools

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. Google updates can put the SEO world into disarray, we hear from Kevin how he’s been impacted previously and how to mitigate against this in the future ( Spoiler: get ready to prune ). Kevin: Absolutely.

Analytic Tools

BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. The org chart for a very early startup usually looks like this: the CEO does everything except tech. What kills startups are massive numbers of opportunities and no hard choices about which things are important.

Startups

Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. He also was the CEO of his own Android startup, Cover which has now been acquired by Twitter. The article lays out how to brainstorm more effectively. #26

Article

Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. In this (fireless) Fireside chat, we delve into what inspires and motivates David, how he came to start five different companies, and how he leads a high-growth company. ML : Fantastic.

CTO Coach

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup. So I’m a little startup in the sales enablement space. April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. I tried it.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

Customer Experience