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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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Lean startup practitioners document these sorts of strategic hypotheses in a lean canvas. I’ve been in this position multiple times as a founder but also as a UX expert and it can be a tricky beast to handle. How you handle this predicament depends on the stage and size of your outfit.

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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. Associate Product Manager.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. 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

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. 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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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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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. Adam: It was, again, just being in a position where we felt comfortable to do it.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Their leadership abilities can either make or break the efforts of their engineers, and their success is compounded by their manager's competence in an often ambiguous position. What is an Engineering Manager?

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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. Cash Position and Flow : These metrics help CEOs track how much money is at hand, what’s coming in, and how the cash is spent. What are the different roles in SaaS companies?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Some view Product as an equal peer to Marketing, Sales, and Engineering, while others tuck it away under a VP of Product Marketing or a CTO. In a vacuum, your resume or LinkedIn profile might leave people with more questions than answers: Why did you leave Microsoft for some startup that failed? A Position with Purpose.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

Look to India, where an elite ecosystem of developers delivers world-class results at a fraction of domestic costs. As John Reynolds, CTO of a San Francisco-based fintech startup, noted: “ Arkenea’s team in India is more responsive and communicative than some local vendors we’ve worked with. The solution?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to) Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post. By front-loading +Psych screens (e.g.

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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.

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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? On the contrary, as you will soon see, it is possible to advance into very lucrative and high-level engineering positions as an individual contributor (Principal Software Engineer). Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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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. “As a student during my Master in Fine Arts, I worked as a graphic designer.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. They use digital marketplaces as a side hustle, selling collectibles or coaching sessions, or otherwise. Marketplace startups often provide these opportunities to this group.

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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 ). I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?

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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. Because then that team can just go operate like a five- or six-person startup, the most productive organizations around.

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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. Because then that team can just go operate like a five- or six-person startup, the most productive organizations around.

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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 then I think I was in a position where again wondering what to do next. We were in a position where.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. 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. I want you to evaluate your positions and think about hey Fred was really successful in that role and Bob was not.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

It’s not just about designers even though I’m talking about designers because I’m a designer – this is a quote from Lever, you know the startup that deals with like recruitment. Another problem is you’re hiring for a design leadership position and you expect the person to design leadership to be hands on too.

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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. 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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. 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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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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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.

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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. But I joined a startup – which I didn’t know what a startup was either – in 1996 and then started to build something and that got me really interested in what I do now. ML : Fantastic.

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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.

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