Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

It was developed by Simon Wardley. Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership. Leadership. You need to be able to explain why you go in one direction and not another, you need to consider how you want to act in the market (context specific) as well as the more universal doctrines. A Wardley map is… a map.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

Joining the mailing list is super easy; just fill out the form below: Our first Deep Dive for 2021 was Jobs-To-Be-Done – a topic we have seen develop and grow and even had a couple of Masterclasses on the process too! Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2021

A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories. A very VC centric view of best practice in developing new territories. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. . // 3 min read The End of Indie.vc

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Many founders tell me they are looking for someone to lead the product, but this could be very tricky.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve learned almost as much about Motörhead as I have about SaaS over the past few years – and trust me, that says more about Mark’s devotion to Lemmy than my personal development. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Adios, BoS.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

.” It was then that April realized nobody knew how to answer the question or create a formal marketing positioning statement. . What Product Positioning Is and Is Not. These motions align with Product that needs to be ready for trials and freemium demos working remotely. .

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. Here are my 4 key takeaways: 1.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. They ensure the seamless delivery of products to customers. . of a Chief Product Officer.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

12 things about product-market fit. I really love this post because most PMs struggle to conceptualize product-market fit, since it varies from product to product. Knowing when to pull the trigger on a product release is a necessary, albeit tricky, skill for PMs to develop.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. 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.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

In the product-led organization of 2023, product teams are gaining authority over previously independent teams and even some historically in a leadership role over product. In the Empowered Product Team model, product leadership sets the overall direction and prioritizes the problems to be solved.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Failure modes that often come up: Exec teams don’t know what Heads of Product do, or want someone who will “make development more efficient”. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Each department wants to hire in its own image.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Balancing human-computer interaction has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. I wish it were that good.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. I always think there’s a couple different products, right?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 3, 2021

Simplicity vs Value in Software Development. Joel argues, going against the wisdom at the time, that features are good if you can add them without making a product too complex. To The Simplicity vs Value in Software Development Talk Page. To The Being Number One Talk Page. My VC Year. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines.  Regardless of intentions, I see sales-led organizations quickly turn into development-for-hire shops.  We

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This code convergence effort was supposed to save Microsoft substantial development time, and also - they tried to convince themselves - improve the offering since Word would have the same features on every platform. There are more than 1 billion Macs and PC’s running Office around the world. Especially while assuring quality.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But as Allison Pickens writes, if your CSM team is just filling in product gaps , it’s probably not driving growth. Over the past few years, we’ve started to see thought leadership on the unique relationship between Product Management and Customer Success.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

So it was certainly quite a pivotal, pivotal point in the growth and development of the conference. And we had a number of talks that were I mean, quite groundbreaking at the time, one that I come back to and a lot of people come back to was by a guy called Greg Baugues, who talked about developers and entrepreneurship and depression.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

Right, that, you know, that comes first or issues that in development that affected that can help the support team. Or can they do mission critical work, product development, you know, sort of work on product when there is that, that that sort of thing going on? or anything like their best work?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. This is a B2B product. And we made it low friction because our customers were developers, ones that might want to get their hands on the data, start working with that building analytical products. Developers! Developers might be doing anything.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

Basecamp was able to fund the development of hey. I know it’s very much antithetical to the way for example, for example, like lean development or lean startup, or you know, the adult or agile runs, but we just have a very different point of view on it that like, if you want to get real feedback, you got to give people the real thing.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

So you have field, inside, BDRs (business development representatives), ADRs (account development reps), CSMs (customer service Managers), etc all these acronyms that we all know. And by the fifth time you’re certifiable at this point. Like starting businesses cause when you go through it is. But at least you can see something.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

We were iterating and at this point we got the developers to come and sit with us and look at what the how people was responding to this design. Another problem is you’re hiring for a design leadership position and you expect the person to design leadership to be hands on too. This is very very difficult to do.

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