Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

Startups looking to advertise on TikTok should begin by establishing an organic presence, testing content, and then gradually transitioning to targeted ads. You don’t need to present a polished image. It’s important to maintain high hiring standards even when facing intense pressure to scale quickly.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

by Sergey Kizayn, CTO, Intetics. Every startup goes through three basic stages as it strives to become the next Uber or Amazon: idea, launch, and growth. Each individual phase of this life cycle presents unique challenges that can make or break any company. Why Do Most Startups Fail? All startups begin with an idea.

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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. This could be anywhere from two to six people (or more), depending on the role.

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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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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. Time to Market for New Products : Also known as velocity, this metric measures the CTO’s effectiveness and speed in rolling new products /features. Collecting customer feedback to improve.

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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. He discovered that meetings were happening without the right individuals present, which meant that the set process wasn’t being followed. “We are too small a company to waste money.

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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. Influence is built up by a mixture of how you behave with your teammates, your track record of success, and how you present your decisions. The best influence comes from a place of earned respect.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Whether live on stage or presenting remotely, our speakers will bring the energy to keep your road trip stoked and exciting across two days. . Ken Rudin, SVP at ThoughtSpot , will be joining us during a keynote presentation, sharing his insights about product-led product evolution and innovative analytics. Product Leading Speakers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup. I think that's because often, as a founder CEO or founder CTO, you end up having a ton of product responsibility.

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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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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. ” The opportunity presented to Chris was one he refused to waste. .

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Even when I was presented data, I was always given the caveat that, “We’re not sure this is right.” ” When I dove in with Product Managers and Engineering leaders on my team, every presentation seemed to have a different method of measuring adoption. But what does a CEO need? How Gainsight PX made me better at my job.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. A few years later, joined a startup. There’s no one size fits all method to improve diversity, and that presents a serious challenge. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management. However, it is possible for a talented tech lead, for instance, to land an engineering manager role at a smaller startup or company.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup. I think that's because often, as a founder CEO or founder CTO, you end up having a ton of product responsibility.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

The role of a product manager in a startup is more hands-on, whereas a product manager in a longstanding company will have a more defined role with distinct responsibilities. Startup: Product managers in startups may be tasked with pricing, support, marketing, and possibly sales.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

You create meaning out of chaos and present information in a consumable, engaging way to a broad audience. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design. You occupy two worlds. You are a storyteller. It is all of the above plus more.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

When that opportunity presents itself, jump at it and go. If you’re coming into an organization, big or small, and you’re in a leadership position, you need to spend the first couple weeks just listening to the problems people on the team present to you. ” But I work in startups. Make sure you understand what matter.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 26, 2020

While startups need to move fast, getting everyone on board with the decisions that are being made is crucial to actually execute fast. I made a few proposals, talked to a few people and presented to the CEO. That was when I started doing product work more closely with my team, my team lead and the CTO.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

He lays out his advice from years of presenting amazing experiences that keep users coming back. #14 He also was the CEO of his own Android startup, Cover which has now been acquired by Twitter. Jon Lax presented at a Design & Content Conference in Vancouver, B.C., 14 Product people KPIs aren’t about the product.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

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. Similarly, you may find that you don’t need a dedicated technology roadmap.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Herter’s, The Business In 1937, George Herter launched his disruptive startup—a mail-order outdoor-sports business—in the spare rooms over his father’s Waseca, Minnesota dry goods store. So, yes, a disruptive startup it was. Disruptive? In 1937, mail order was as innovative and disruptive as e-commerce in 1999.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. My point of view.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2019

However, I want to present a different perspective, Testimonial Driven Development (TDD). For the sake of the story and easier understanding, imagine that you and I are building a startup. The products they develop will eventually solve some problems and make people’s lives easier, and there is nothing wrong with this approach.

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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. The diversity presents challenges when attempting to: Identify growth opportunities and spot which areas you must improve upon. How come you were once a Director, but now you’re a Senior PM?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Product-based businesses provide tangible and/or interactive products that are similar in their presentation and quality for each user, making for a consistent customer experience. Test Your Assumptions Before Writing Code An important part of growing a startup is understanding the market. Canvs didn’t start out as a product business.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

But usage data is just one factor for decision making, and because in PM meetings it’s something you can point to as evidence to support an argument, it’s often overweight (particularly when the presenter has good persuasion skills). The Lean Startup movement put particular emphasis on throwing out hypothesis to test with data.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Getting that feedback is invaluable in shaping opinions, planning projects, and presenting strategy to management.” I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. in Political Economy and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology.”

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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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svpg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

When you combine this deep knowledge of technology, with a first-hand experience of the customer problems, great products can result. In most startups, the product person is the CEO (or at least one of the co-founders). Q: What if the CEO is the product person? Q: What’s the difference between Product Scorecards and OKRs?

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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 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. So he kind of looked around and said, Well, I don’t really know what to do here. I like to learn. So I go to some conferences and teach myself.

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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

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. This is my favorite conference to present at and my favorite conference to attend so I appreciate you all having me back. Send them an e-mail, say hey that presentation you gave was freaking awesome. They don’t know what you want them to do. And here’s how you use him.

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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. And he’s talking about tech altogether. So a lot of this talk is applicable to your tech hires. It was absolutely brilliant.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

We’re a startup, but entirely funded and owned by the Open University (OU). Joel Chippendale and Lucy Blackwell joined as our CTO and creative director. Soon, every team in the company got up and presented progress from the last two weeks. Now each strategic team presents in its own way, with little hosting required.

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