The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every relationship where you help people initially has a power differential. Let’s think of products as a differentiated delivery mechanism of some value exchange. Who has the power? Is it me communicating best practices or is it them inviting me in because they’re a prospective customer?”. I enjoy product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 27, 2024

Both roles should be thinking about positioning, competitive space, and differentiation. Some companies take the route to merge the CPO role and CTO role into CPTO. Sometimes, product leaders come from a technical background and tend to lean towards technology. This isn’t ideal. Is this a winning strategy?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Differentiating your product – Lenny shares 7 ways companies can differentiate their products, including focusing on affordability, product quality, niche markets , and more.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies. James Alexander Founder and Head of Product, Vizibility.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

Chief Product Officer vs. Chief Technology Officer. In most companies, the chief product officer and chief technology officer are two separate entities that work together to ensure a company’s goals are achieved. and be able to differentiate those roles from a CTO’s.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises have been prioritizing design and its methods as a competitive differentiator for years. You don’t have to have been a designer earlier in your career to create and sustain an environment that supports effective, high-performing design teams.

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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. How will you differentiate from these? Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? What are your key Startup Metrics ?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

The table has in it all the components of the solution and three columns: “essentials”, “differentiators”, and “not now.” It should be excruciatingly painful to pull things into the “essentials” or the “differentiators,” which then become the thing we go build. Paul Adams: Yeah, the smallest coherent solution.

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Valerian Tech

JUNE 5, 2023

By implementing strong data security measures, transparent privacy policies, and efficient data handling practices, insurance companies can build trust with customers, differentiate themselves from competitors, and foster long-term relationships based on trust and confidence.

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Valerian Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Competing and Differentiating in the Market In a crowded e-commerce market, standing out from competitors is crucial. They can also conduct competitor analysis and discover insights into areas where the business can differentiate itself. Utilizing effective data analytics, e-commerce businesses can gain a competitive edge.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Our CTO, Curtis loves taking Distributed Systems problems into the realm of Mathematics and did a lot of interesting analysis to determine optimal rows per file for query purposes. Files spanning a long time-range and has a small set of rows (still much more than 1 row in some files like we had in our old system).

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

Additionally, the CTO gave us information on the technical limitations. We also did our own competitor analysis , identifying differentiating features and services. In order to get the full picture, we talked to different members of the management board, for example, the CEO, the Head of Marketing, and the Head of Product.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 11, 2024

You’re a company founder and a CTO. In the very early days of Mode, there were three of us: our CEO, who was off talking to investors, our CTO, who was chained to a desk building the product, and me. But I think the silly blog posts actually were more helpful than we probably gave credit for because they were some differentiation.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. Not really an article, but this Quora thread compiles answers from various product leaders about what differentiates the crème de la crème of product management. Making biased decisions based on short-term data. Author: Still unknown, but First Round Review again.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Some of the attributes that differentiate BASE FOOD from its competitors include the versatility of how its noodles can be prepared, the business moving toward becoming a sustainable brand, and the ingredients used to make Base Noodles.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2020

“The last thing we wanted was for patients to go to an urgent care facility, where they might contract COVID-19, only because they couldn’t reach their primary care physician virtually,” said Sherry Slick, CTO and COO of OurHealth. Let’s build what truly differentiates us,” said Sherry. “We

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The stronger and more differentiated the value promise, the more subscribers will pay and the longer they’ll keep paying. Building their businesses on a core value promise that provides enduring value. This core value promise is what attracts users to the app and keeps them coming back over time.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Differentiated SaaS Growth. The differentiated growth approach is creating a product with unique features which can make it stand out from the crowd. Creating a differentiated product increases the chances of a competitive advantage, which may lead to higher returns. Nonetheless, they generate healthy profits.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

Shape Up differentiates between imagined tasks – " tasks we think we need to do at the start of a project " – and discovered tasks – “ tasks we discover we need to do in the course of doing real work.” Let there be tasks Since the dev team wasn’t handed a list of tasks, they need to develop their own.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 9, 2024

That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs. Reactivity was a key differentiating feature of Observable’s first product, Notebooks.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

So in order to basically build a business that could succeed out the UK for me the key was being able to develop a really strong IP base a strong base of exceptionally differentiated technology. Is it going to be your technology? And defensibility. I think the classic UK tech problem for me looks like this.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

We entered a working partnership with a technology provider that had the right economic incentives given this solution, delivered differentiation beyond the current offering, and had the potential to expand their customer base (a win-win, which is critical from a Transaction-Cost-Economics perspective).

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Upcoming talk releases include: Jason Fried (CEO/Founder, Basecamp & Hey) on launching Hey April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome) on why you should stop selling your product Dharmesh Shah (CTO/Founder, Hubspot) on facing fears as an entrepreneur. What they’re doing is they’re teaching for differentiation.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This solution clearly differentiated for the sales team, and also ensured quality search results, whether paid or organic. Lea worked with Adobe’s then CTO, Kevin Lynch, to put together some very compelling prototypes showing the power of this new foundation, and used this to rally both executives and product teams.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology. Just 22% of companies with 10,000+ employees cited AI/RPA as a core focus.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It’s like, we’re We are an ad server, but we’ve layered on the API and the developer tools is what differentiates us from all these other ad servers, right. And what we’re trying to tell them is that no, we’re, we’re an API focused company, on, monetization, right, like in April speak, right?

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

CTO, DevOpsLead) Goals: Rapidly identify scalable solutions, control costs, and avoid vendorlock-in. Product Vision: Enable seamless discovery, customization, and procurement of technical solutions via an intuitive chat interface. User Personas Primary: Technical Decision-Maker (e.g., Competitive Analysis: Finding: Top tools (e.g.,

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