Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. 5) A/B test product features. (6) A CTO shares how he has increased the innovation muscle of his teams using five perspectives: (1) Classic Change Management. (2) 3) Start with customer needs. (4)

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” They tend to interview more and run more assumption tests. Both are true. said in the past week. For the 26.1%

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Head of Product Coaching Matthew Ensor and CTO Brendan Wovchko partnered up and decided this was the way they wanted their teams to work together. They also began to run small tests to learn how customers would respond in different situations.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 9, 2024

” Use the “30-day test” to maintain a high-performance team. They show onscreen the longest—while you get set up and while you take questions afterward—so they should contain your strongest point. Don’t waste this valuable real estate on showing your company name or “Thank you.”

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). To a Learning goal: “Learn how A/B testing could impact our conversion rate.”.

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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. Be discerning about product management advice.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 4, 2023

In this article, we'll explore the benefits of DevOps for legacy businesses and how a Fractional CTO can help overcome the challenges of DevOps adoption. How can a Fractional CTO help legacy businesses implement DevOps practices? Finally, a Fractional CTO can help legacy businesses develop a roadmap for DevOps adoption.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

TL;DR Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is an author, speaker, coach, and the founder of Product School. Who is Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia is a sought-after speaker and product coach. Build, test, improve. Let’s look at a quick overview of the key ideas from the talk. Want to learn more?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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. CMOs know that marketing is more than redesigning logos or A/B testing email. </rant>

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

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. Which devices will you test on specifically? Is there a need for A/B testing? Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

” It’s a rare executive who doesn’t push her/his VP Engineering or CTO hard on productivity, hiring ramps and fanciful notions about increased commitments leading to better outcomes. Instead, I usually defer to the VPE/CTO on the bigger efficiency question, and focus on prioritization choices captured in the roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. And basically, it’s testing the design and operating effectiveness of your company’s security controls when it comes to protecting your customers’ data. Caught your interest? SOC 2 compliance: A Beginner’s Guide. The LinkedIn Incident.

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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. A/B testing subsequently confirmed that this higher price drove an ~8.3% to $35.99. lift in ARPU.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. What worked well for us Success recipe: Coaching designers top-down and promoting grassroots contribution. “In my 10+ years of career at our company, I have never seen the global enterprise speaking a single language of XYZ design and ABC UI kit.”

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Valerian Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A typical cryptocurrency project will have a team of developers, economists, investors, and advisors who work together to bring the project to fruition. How can CTO’s help ensure the Success of a Cryptocurrency Project? This will help ensure that the project remains competitive and relevant.

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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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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded by CEO Justin Hunt and CTO Ben Hudson, Blaise Transit is headquartered in Montreal and has been supported by some of the world’s top accelerators, including Techstars and Canada’s Next 36! As a smart Mobility start-up, they developed solutions to optimise and revolutionize public transport systems and services.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

It involves strengthening your understanding of business outcomes , fostering collaboration in product trios , and cultivating many other habits like conducting regular story-based interviews , mapping opportunities on the opportunity solution tree , and identifying and testing assumptions. Who was deciding on that output?

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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. Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? We've got your covered.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

These may be gained through experience, education, or mentoring. Learning from user testing. Outside of the organization, these skills also work to encourage loyal customers to enter into beta testing for a feature or convince a target customer to try a stealth product. Conducting customer research. Spearheading design.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

It should be a good test. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. As a coach you hire yourself a coach inside the company to help you through.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

“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. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Take test management, for example. Atlassian partnered with companies like Xray, SmartBear, and Mabl so teams can manage their automated tests without leaving Jira. After six incredible years leading Atlassian’s Engineering team, our CTO Sri Viswanath has decided to move on. A fond farewell.

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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. A six-step survey journey over a two to four-week period that includes platform setup, data prep, survey strategy, setup, test and launch, and results roll out.

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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. So this is why I love personality tests. And the personality tests that we use in our company it has a word for people like me.

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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. But we forgot about some key things – we’ve done loads of testing, we’d put this stuff out. And this was a great concept. And he said Yeah no problem. So getting to the end now.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

And once we’ve done all this we ship and we ship tiny little increments in each one we learn we test we measure and we work out what we should do. We can do this by multivariate testing or once we know we have a direction of travel then we can build up and just continue to iterate on what we’ve released.

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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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Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2025

First, my book of business on the fractional CTO side of things filled up completely, reducing available writing time. 2023-06-08 We Tested Gen-2 and Share the Resulting Videos The Emergence 2023-04-18 Season 1, Episode 4 March Madness, AI Style 2023-03-18 Observations on AI’s March acceleration Alarmed About AI?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

He says you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests (RAT) instead because “there is no need to build more than what’s required to test your largest unknown.” Melissa Perri , CEO of Produx Labs and Product Institute , learned the difference between a strategy and a plan the hard way—bumping heads with her CTO.

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

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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. One of many tests they tried was to move to a subscription service.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So the way I’ve been kind of trying to coach some teams and just think it through is if we if you were used to managing a person face to face, and now all of a sudden you’re behind a screen, right? I think this is such a massive shift that we have to treat it very differently. And I was like, okay, we’re done here.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 16, 2025

Introverts are often misunderstood as unambitious—make your goals known to mentors who can advocate for you. Drawing from her extensive research and personal experience, Cain offers a powerful reframing: success doesn’t require becoming more extroverted—it demands becoming more fully yourself.

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