Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product. Upcoming Events.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When it comes to the product leader (in early-stage startups it is often even the same person as the hands-on product manager), they still see the importance of the role in the orchestration of the product execution. Product Definition Itself Is Not Strategy So why do the CEOs say it is an important, strategic role?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 10, 2021

It is a powerful tool to inform your strategy and monitor your progress. The Strategy Cycle. A Wardley map helps you navigate your way through the strategy cycle learning about your environment and the constantly changing forces that affect it – including your own actions. Purpose Landscape Climate Doctrine Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 3, 2021

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

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

She realized that the strategy for marketing the product changed, as did their field of competition. . When April recounted what transpired, she asked the professor, “If my product can be positioned in multiple different market categories, how do I know which is the best one? .”

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. First, I observe that product titles and roles vary wildly across companies: there’s no consistency even within a segment. What’s your preferred organization model for product folks?”

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

Here’s a few that stand out in different ways but this is by no means a ranked list… Product, marketing, strategy, operations and company growth. Kathy Sierra, Serious Pony: Building a minimum badass user A completely different way of thinking about your product and your users.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She will share some of her experiences in helping to shape and scale a successful commercial strategy that has meant the company has grown incredibly quickly; from the outset, the intention was to establish a reputation in a key market before applying its AI know-how to other challenges, such as risk or compliance.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

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

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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. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time.

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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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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It will be the product adventure of a lifetime. We are gearing up to support you in accelerating your product strategies and provide the tools you’ll need to level up your career in product. There will be unequaled thought-leaders and actionable strategies mixed with child-like joy. Get in, everyone.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2021

April is an expert marketing practitioner turned executive consultant and author who helps technology companies make complicated products easy for customers to understand and love. She is a globally recognized expert in Positioning and Market strategy. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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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. Here are some partial strategies: Recognize this dynamic as fundamental and systematic — at least for enterprise software.  

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the first things I did was organize a strategy offsite for several cross-functional leads on my broader team, which included members from customer success, design, engineering, and marketing. I’ve learned that the best way to build products that people love is by constantly listening to and understanding customers’ needs.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve noticed this over and over in conversations with attendees, Q&A sessions with speakers, and as a user of several products made by the community (I’m looking at you, YouCanBook.Me , Zapier , Doist , and Balsamiq , to name but a few). Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Anyone in product for a few years quickly notices no fixed definition of product management from one company to another. 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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges. He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. Dustin Levy Director of Product Management, Gentex Corporation.

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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. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. It’s a compelling and non-BS answer relevant for PMs at any sized-company.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

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

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are more than 1 billion Macs and PC’s running Office around the world. Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing. ” It’s important to note that she did this as an individual contributor product manager.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

April Dunford // Ambient Strategy. 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. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So what I mean by this is that you have people as I said who have these skills allow them to uncover an unmet need, to innovate to ensure a product market fit, to stop you building the wrong thing which is massively money saving and also to create products that are such a joy to use that people evangelize about them.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Fundraising Strategy and Process. Yeah, there are different measures that I mean, there are different metrics, I think that VCs will use for different types of companies and different markets. But there’s plenty of land grabs, and all sorts of other strategies. But what’s the general strategy?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

Simon Wardley I’m really excited about he has developed this strategy tool called Wardley maps, no idea where you got name from, but it’s an open source tool to help you understand the world that you’re living in, what you’re good at what you’re not, and how you can get to be a long term sustainable business.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Couple of really good examples of that are product management and product marketing because they are a multiplier; they collaborate across a team so if you don’t have a really high bar there you’re going to have really bad product and you’re going to have really bad messaging for your sales and marketing team.

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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 24, 2021

So David and I set the direction, and the strategy and the vision and sort of where we’re headed. But on the product side, it’s David and I who primarily make these decisions. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.

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