The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. 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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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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. 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 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

But because it’s the most common title what’s important to consider is what product they manage – if they’re a product manager for Facebook’s News Feed and impact billions of users they’re probably more senior and experienced than a product manager at a brand new startup. Senior Product Manager. VP Product / Head of Product.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

“So far this week I’ve had eight coaching calls with non-customers, two coaching calls with customers, and one conference in San Francisco for B2B product managers. I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product. Most of my work is external facing,” he says.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

In our conversation, we discuss: Why you should PM your career like you PM your product Strategies for incubating new products within large companies Creating a successful 30-60-90-day plan when starting a new job The pitfalls of perfectionism The challenges introverts face in the workplace and how to overcome them The value of resilience and turning (..)

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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.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. These can be things related to the product or the strategy?—?for

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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. Is your startup idea already taken?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days. Transition to a new company.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things.

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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. This makes products less sticky and retention more difficult. annual subscription price from $29.99

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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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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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?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice On top of that, it offers digital design, development and branding strategy development. Chris Weldon Prospect Hill Advisors, LLC 12. Vice President, Regal Cinemas 2. Citibank, AIG, and more.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. ” Georgina Kirby Co-Founder & CTO, Vinehealth.

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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 think we were also still missing tying that back to the business strategy piece.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

As Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, and our former Head of Engineering, Neil Rahilly brings a blend of strategy, hiring, management, and career advice to those who want to push innovation at their companies forward. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? But strategy is all about focus and finding ways to not compete. I was a self-taught coder.

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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? 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.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. The role of a product manager in a startup is more hands-on, whereas a product manager in a longstanding company will have a more defined role with distinct responsibilities. Here are the skills you need to be considered a great product manager: Core Competencies.

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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. Is your startup idea already taken?

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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. Everybody needs to have a strategy. So that was the first great instance of failure that I experienced in my career.

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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. And I do think that you know if a company loses money and is still paying bonuses you know there is a legitimate strategy for that right.

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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. Or finally if your ad is for a product person but a large part of their role is research or design strategy.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. 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.

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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.

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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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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. 17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy. ” #23 What is Good Product Strategy?

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