Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer. Get your tickets.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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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. Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. user group events.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Cultural fit: The one compromise you should never make at a startup is cultural fit. and during?—?the

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

For instance, what objective metric is there to measure the weight of your leadership or communication skills? 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. are not necessary to get a job in tech.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Product-led growth isn’t just for startups. Ilan will join members of our product leadership, including Gainsight’s CTO Mickey Alon and our Group VP for Platform and PX, Denise Stokowski , live on stage to break down which highway will take you from product-market-fit to growth for the Enterprise.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. From there, Chris became involved in startups. ”I was their first paying customer.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. 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.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. 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.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

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. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. Again…Why? Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. 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.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup. Head of Product or Product Director. Product Manager.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

This does not imply, however, that only the leadership team determines this strategy. The technology strategy and roadmap, finally, are owned by the CTO together with senior architects. If you work for a startup, for example, and you currently offer a single product, then you won’t need a product portfolio strategy at present.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. The Silicon Valley Product Group published this intriguing article. It discusses how with technology products, your customers don’t know what’s possible and they don’t know what they want until they see it.

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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. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive. Now I’m a startup. I tried it.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

They operate independently with a product development team, maybe on a smaller product or area, and under the leadership and mentorship of a more senior product manager. In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more. Senior Product Manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. The next generation of workforce will want and expect the next generation of technology. the next morning. If he didn’t fix it, he’d be fired.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 15, 2021

We are always particularly keen to support entrepreneurs are the beginning of their journey, underrepresented groups in the software ecosystem. Whilst not meaning to simply repeat your own marketing spiel, BoS really did feel like a large group of friends who welcomed new members and openly shared their knowledge. Do what counts.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. Chasing free customer acquisition.

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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. They hire a CTO and deal with a variety of team problems along the way.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

An admin might create a user on the web console and then that user logs in on the mobile app and then they send a message through to other members of their group. ” I already knew you, Teresa, through other social groups so I was like, “Oh, right, that’s cool.” Teresa: Who are your typical customers?

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

With leadership and PM direct reports. The Lean Startup movement put particular emphasis on throwing out hypothesis to test with data. So more startups are ramping up the sales learning curve. In today’s product companies, the team is more connected and engaged through Slack and other group messaging apps. With customers.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. A lot of the companies that we were working with said gala got a Gala Group before they joined to Coral and our big owners were LeisureLink. So a company I was at Inspired Gaming Group, they were about to sell the business at the end of 2007 to Icelandic banks.

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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.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

” Netali Jakubovitz Group Product Manager, Doodle. I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. Prior to LevelUp, I worked in business development, marketing, and product roles at blockchain/cryptocurrency startups. I caught the bug.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Since then, the Wistia senior leadership team and I have been building out and revising what we’re calling the Wistia Operating System — a new methodology for how Wistia gets work done. As time went on and both our team and product grew, the project management philosophy that once propelled us ahead had begun to slow us down.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

It showcases the best from inside and outside of the market research realm with a focus on technology innovation, thought leadership, collaboration and networking. Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference, a gathering for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and thought leaders from across sectors and structures.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

It showcases the best from inside and outside of the market research realm with a focus on technology innovation, thought leadership, collaboration and networking. Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference, a gathering for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and thought leaders from across sectors and structures.

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

It showcases the best from inside and outside of the market research realm with a focus on technology innovation, thought leadership, collaboration and networking. Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference, a gathering for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and thought leaders from across sectors and structures.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. Microsoft has got this group of people that have been there since the very, very early days. So he kind of looked around and said, Well, I don’t really know what to do here.

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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. Previously, he was at HubSpot as Chief Product Officer after they acquired his company Performable. ML : So Drift aside which of your four startup are you most proud of. ML : Fantastic.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

But we’re now going to have two concurrent groups of teams working on two concurrent products. We’ve got some things after lunch where we’ve got some some smaller groups and people can dig into something. Is there anything that you’d really like, like to dig into in that kind of smaller, smaller group?

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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. So this was based on a small group of customers but they felt that this was right. And he’s talking about tech altogether.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

They’re split into four groups: analysis, data, admin and growth. The analysis group is focused on the core, Mixpanel product analytics experience for the end users that come in and are trying to answer questions about their product. For the bigger groups in particular, they’re then subdivided into smaller teams.

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Mixpanel

MAY 12, 2020

They’re split into four groups: analysis, data, admin and growth. The analysis group is focused on the core, Mixpanel product analytics experience for the end users that come in and are trying to answer questions about their product. For the bigger groups in particular, they’re then subdivided into smaller teams.

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