TPG Live Recap: Bridging Enterprise Customer Gaps & Leading Hybrid Product Teams
The Product Guy
APRIL 15, 2025
How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?
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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists
The Product Guy
MAY 15, 2017
In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Krishna Madhuvarsu Director of Product Strategy, Oracle Inc.
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Conducting User Research in Product Management
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
Applying Product Management to Web Design in a Multiscreen Era
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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The Strategy Stack: Connecting Business, Product, and Technology Strategy
Roman Pichler
MARCH 12, 2024
But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. 1] While I hope that this makes sense to you, I find that in practice, the different strategies are sometimes confused.
Product Management at Startups vs. Enterprises
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”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!
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The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Product Management
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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Business Development vs. Product Management
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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Finding Blue Oceans #prodmgmt
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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10 Experts On The Right Steps To Product Iteration
Arkenea
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
2 Unique value proposition should be the major criterion for making decisions Roger Cauvin, founder at Dadnab Product strategy should drive all product decisions. Lean startup practitioners document these sorts of strategic hypotheses in a lean canvas. Because a great product vision isn’t a blueprint or a plan.
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Product Management Job Titles and Hierarchy
Mind the Product
JULY 9, 2018
But because it’s the most common title what’s important to consider is what product they manage – if they’re a product manager for Facebook’s News Feed and impact billions of users they’re probably more senior and experienced than a product manager at a brand new startup. Senior Product Manager.
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Inside TikTok: Culture, strategy, monetization, and more | Ray Cao (Global Head of Monetization Product Strategy and Operations)
Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 7, 2024
Brought to you by: • WorkOS —The modern API for auth & user identity • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • OneSchema —Import CSV data 10x faster — Ray (Jiayi) Cao is the global head of product strategy and operations for monetization product at TikTok.
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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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?
The Product Coalition
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Most of the CEOs I work with, understand that the role of the product leader is very important. Whenever I talk to startup CEOs, especially first-timers, the discussion on product goes immediately to UX and wireframes. It is much closer to the company strategy in how broad it is.
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Senior Product Manager and Your Next Career Steps
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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User Experience Design Tactics for Product Managers
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. Ladislav focuses on user centric product development, especially on brand, usability and revenue product challenges.
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Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott's advice for scaling
The Review by First Round
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Today’s episode is with Adrian McDermott, CTO of Zendesk. Since then, he’s led product management and engineering teams as the company has gone public and scaled to over 5000 employees. Our discussion digs into the challenges that come from scaling startups.
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Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Lenny Rachitsky
MARCH 10, 2024
Build empowered product teams by filling four key roles: a genuine product manager, a real product designer, a legitimate tech lead, and an authentic product leader. Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy.
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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 21, 2022
What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson.
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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More
Userpilot
MAY 1, 2024
How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management? Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”
The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival
Bain Public
MAY 29, 2020
It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%
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Succeeding as an introvert, building zero-to-one, and why you should PM your career like you PM your product | Deb Liu (CEO of Ancestry, ex-Facebook, PayPal, eBay)
Lenny Rachitsky
AUGUST 22, 2024
She’s also held leadership roles at PayPal and eBay, serves on the board of Intuit, and is the author of Take Back Your Power.
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25 must-read product management articles
Roadmunk
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.
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How To Manage People Who Are More Experienced Than You Are
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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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies.
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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023
Userpilot
JULY 27, 2023
Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products. Come up with product and new feature ideas.
Q&A with Neil Rahilly, VP Product and Design, on product strategy, team composition, and customer feedback
Mixpanel
MAY 12, 2020
Neil recently sat down for an AMA session and spoke on a wide range of topics, from product strategy and process pipelines to team composition and building a great career, among many other things. How do you define your product strategy? And that’s proprietary information. ” And that’s a skill.
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Finding Your True Career IMPACT Within the Product Field
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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Q&A with Neil Rahilly, VP Product and Design, on product strategy, team composition, and customer feedback
Mixpanel
MAY 12, 2020
Distilling knowledge from multiple disciplines, this AMA session from Rahilly helps turn amorphous concepts in product management into a tangible guide. How do you define your product strategy? ” Because that’s what we could go and build and have a better product than them. ” And that’s a skill.
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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019
The Product Coalition
JULY 17, 2018
Dave Weiss, CTO BabyCenter LLC, Johnson & Johnson “The biggest success for us was having WillowTree take over the app.”? —?Vice Motto: We’re a product agency that helps Fortune 500 companies and next generation startups build the future of digital. Vice President, Regal Cinemas 2. Citibank, AIG, and more.
What is Product Management, exactly?
BrainMates
JULY 3, 2018
The Chief Product Officer (CPO) or Vice President of Product Management (VP of Product) roles are more common in larger organisations, and usually report directly to the CEO. Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design.
Pulse for Product 2021: Meet the Drivers on the Road to Product Led Growth
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. Previously at Google and Facebook , he fully comprehends how products impact billions of users globally. Get in, everyone.
Leading the Change: How Ellen Juhlin Introduced Discovery Habits at Orion Labs
Product Talk
MAY 10, 2023
” It was very output focused for sure, like, “Let’s build this thing” or “Let’s build this thing to be able to tell a story or market a thing,” but it wasn’t driven necessarily by that strategy upfront. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?
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Gainsight
NOVEMBER 11, 2018
But when it comes to Product Management, the Aptrinsic team are the experts. They will lead our strategy and message to the Product world. Encourage startup mentality. We’re not disrupting product development. Mickey, formerly the CEO at Aptrinsic, is now the CTO of Aptrinsic at Gainsight.
International Women’s Day: Reflections from female leaders in product & tech
Mixpanel
MARCH 7, 2021
I quickly came to realize how lucky I’d been when I joined a startup as a co-founder and came to raising capital. “I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals.
Metrics that matter to Primephonic: the KPI that drives product roadmap prioritization
Mixpanel
JUNE 17, 2020
To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. Looking at the personas helped us define our product strategy as well as the content strategy.
Metrics that matter to Primephonic: the KPI that drives product roadmap prioritization
Mixpanel
JUNE 17, 2020
To build a business model that can help your startup make waves in a crowded marketplace, consider Henrique Boregio’s approach: stop chasing “feature parity” and focus on creating something truly unique. We’re still a startup. Looking at the personas helped us define our product strategy as well as the content strategy.
Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups
The Product Coalition
MARCH 23, 2022
Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical
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Hiring Your First Product Manager
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 Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. and during?—?the
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Why CEOs Should Not Be Our Primary Source of Customer Input
Mironov Consulting
JANUARY 17, 2019
I think this is fundamentally wrong for companies with more than a half-dozen customers or a dozen employees – and is a primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. 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.
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Truth needs to be told?—?startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
startups fail because CEOs have lousy bosses Why do startup fail? you’ll find hundreds of articles, most pointing to the same reasons: No market need Ran out of cash Team problems Pricing/product/business models issues Competition One small problem I have with these reasons. Truth needs to be told?—?startups Google it?—?you’ll
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33 Amazing Articles Every Product Manager Must Read
Hutwork
MARCH 9, 2018
17 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy. Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP of Products at Google, gave a lecture to graduating students at Claremont McKenna College, from which FirstRound distilled his comments in this interesting article. ” #23 What is Good Product Strategy?
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