Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers. Should you go work at a startup?

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your bi-weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Since the company was still growing, most of the product decisions were handled by the company’s CTO and co-founder. Things that the product leadership believes in.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The disruptive growth approach focuses on gaining market leadership with a lower-cost product, which will help capture new customers. The main goal of a disruptive SaaS growth strategy is to give your company fast market leadership and the competitive edge. The Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) approach is one of the core lean startup principles.

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

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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. Companies with top-quartile McKinsey Design Index scores outperformed industry-benchmark growth by as much as two to one. Embrace Iteration. Invite Them to More … Everything.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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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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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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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 Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. As you start to build your reputation within your team, company, or even industry, people will be more open to hearing what you have to say.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented. In terms of demonstrating leadership, look to your extracurricular activities. It ended up being a great way to practice debate and leadership in many ways. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Product Mentor is a program designed to pair Product Mentors and Mentees from around the World, across all industries, from start-up to enterprise, guided by the fundamental goals… Better Decisions. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. Better Products.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I fully believe in the concept of servant leadership. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. Being a good CEO is less about telling people what to do and more about giving them what they need. But what does a CEO need? How Gainsight PX made me better at my job.

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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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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. crowd, or then there’s tonnes of these, and they probably already dominate the keywords for your industry.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The next generation of workforce will want and expect the next generation of technology. Outdated and misapplied technologies are ill-suited to the tasks at hand, which creates trouble for the humans using it. By retiring technologies proactively , you can remain focused on consistently moving the needle.

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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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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So there was a company who make all of the music that happens in between basketball games, that Dum Dum Dum Dum diddle diddle… And they were still quite big in the music industry. So that’s how we basically think about the industry. It was all too late.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Though it may not grab as many headlines or turn us into “influencers” in our respective industries, it builds the proper habits and work ethic to succeed in our current roles… and our next ones. 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.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. in Political Economy and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.” I caught the bug.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right? Ellen: It was me as part of the executive team, so head of marketing and sales, and customer success, and whoever else was part of our executive team, so CTO, CEO, etc. Teresa: Was that the way it was? Who was deciding on that output?

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. ideation, prototyping), Launch (e.g.,

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. ideation, prototyping), Launch (e.g.,

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DISQO

AUGUST 10, 2015

While there’s no doubt a number of industry-specific conferences for product teams, we’ve focused primarily on industry-agnostic ones for this list. Speakers include Dave Coplin, Chief Envisioning Officer of Microsoft. Industry: The Product Conference. ideation, prototyping), Launch (e.g.,

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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. In addition to this, our conversation also covers his time at Altassian and contrasts this with his G2 role, his thoughts on Google updates and how they impact his industry and his vision for the future of SEO.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

We’ve wrote a lot of books and put a lot of ideas out there, i a lot of people would say where we kind of go against the grain in our industry. Again, most companies in our industry are focused on growth, endless growth, chasing growth at all costs growing unprofitably, hiring as many people as they can. And we’re small.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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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. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. I like to learn. So I go to some conferences and teach myself.

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