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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

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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33 Amazing Articles Every Product Manager Must Read

Hutwork

13 The Quintessential Guide for Building an Unforgettable First-Time User Experience. Hackernoon published Wayne Chang’s seminal article on user experience. You also need to name KPIs for product people. She discusses how and why you must define your non-negotiable before you build prototypes. #13

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Here we asked Will to tell us a little about the four archetypes of staff roles, namely architect, tech lead, solver, and right hand. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

What’s In a Name? 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. Often, I hear blaming/shaming of users for being dumb. So our first struggle is what to call this role.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice In 2017 the company became a part of Rightpoint, an independent customer experience agency.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

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. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.