Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” — Matias Woloski , co-founder and CTO of Auth0 “The trial is about their work. For more interactive roles, such as Sales or positions where folks will be presenting internally, the trial project may include a final presentation. For positions we didn’t hire for often (e.g.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. Do your own review first so you can be confident and better positioned. Process and Team Review It’s easy for development teams, especially startup teams, to cut process corners in the name of shipping features. Are you ready?

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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. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. both in the short and long term.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

This is an entry-level position, for someone who is brand new to the role. The typical APM is a recent graduate and, as with most apprenticeships, the aim is to develop these candidates into full-time positions through a combination of training and hands-on involvement with real projects. Associate Product Manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

For example, a startup might not need a sales manager or a fully-fledged sales team in its early days, but a UX designer is an absolute necessity. Cash Position and Flow : These metrics help CEOs track how much money is at hand, what’s coming in, and how the cash is spent. What are the different roles in SaaS companies?

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

That is until BASE FOOD , a nutritionally balanced food Japan-based startup, successfully created a product that popularized the industries. Their mission is to positively impact one’s health and lifespan. It’s not very common for startups in Japan to pursue the global market. Make it easier to eat nutrient-rich foods.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suddenly, the team got to know SOC 2 Reports all too well and realized just how burdensome and unscalable it could become, especially for high-growth startups. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Adam: It was, again, just being in a position where we felt comfortable to do it.

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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. Look into holistic positive changes–try to uncover if the design team has contributed to an increase in sales, competitiveness, or brand loyalty in qualitative stories as well.

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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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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. Arcadier , an e-commerce SaaS marketplace builder based in Singapore, originally came to a Brainmates Product Management course in Singapore, before engaging us for further specialised workplace training.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

Photo by Alvaro Reyes / Unsplash T - Technical: The position is unsurprisingly a technical one. P - Program: The position is centered on developing and executing technical business programs. For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. So let's get to it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Many of the world’s most successful startups have outsourced some of their work. Simply put, the CTO must choose between (1) staffing an in-house team, and (2) outsourcing the work to an external team.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. Instead it’s their grit and positive character that stands out.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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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. If you treat your position as a chance to manipulate people into doing things your way, you’re definitely in the wrong job! There’s also a big difference between influence and manipulation.

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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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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. In a vacuum, your resume or LinkedIn profile might leave people with more questions than answers: Why did you leave Microsoft for some startup that failed? A Position with Purpose.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. 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. What is an Engineering Manager?

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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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. Sometimes the simplicity this creates in your product is a positive experience for customers. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Companies like Facebook and Disney use this meter to see how consumers are connecting with and reacting to their shows and other products emotionally, whether positively or negatively.” Disney wanted to find out if promoting the genie on social media would positively or negatively impact their marketing strategy. Greg asks Jared.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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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. This is a talk about positioning, but a little bit more about how you communicate your positioning or share your positioning. And we’re a tiny little startup, some of those things look really expensive.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. dev/color is a charity I’m a board member of, and one of its goals is to promote leadership – particularly getting people of color into leadership positions.

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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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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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 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. In this position, Dustin’s primary responsibilities include product portfolio management, new product introduction and product line strategy deployment.

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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. Associate or Junior Product Manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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