The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. Mike also refers to his First Round Review article in the interview, which we definitely recommend reading: Why This Engineering Leader Thinks You Shouldn’t Aim for Zero Regrettable Attrition.

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Now it’s time for “special cases”… A “special case” refers to any stakeholders who are likely to have strong positive or negative opinions about your Business Intelligence project. An appropriate stakeholder list for BI projects will likely include…. IT Administrators.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Maybe those references to TFA sound like bragging, or he thinks “passion for numbers” sounds silly. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas The information provided was all pulled from data he’s already entered - just Mark, Houston, Math Teacher, Teach for America.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

A work trial refers to a step in the interview process where candidates are asked to complete a project that’s representative of the work they’ll be doing in the role. ” — Matias Woloski , co-founder and CTO of Auth0 “The trial is about their work.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. In manufacturing, the constraint is often referred to as a bottleneck. This piece was inspired by a friend of mine, a successful entrepreneur.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer The CTO is responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. The company needs a high percentage of this metric to stay competitive.

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 3, 2020

He’s also been a software engineer, a serial CTO, and the Chief Product Officer at Hubspot, giving him a unique lens into company building and leadership at different levels. Today’s episode is with David Cancel. David has been a CEO and founder of multiple different companies throughout his career.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. Because she has mixed feelings, did Nidhi say she’d ever refer to herself as a woman in tech?

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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. So be charismatic and knowledgeable with customers/prospects.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In today’s world, customer support no longer refers to transactional interactions a customer has with your company when they have a temporary issue or question. From the very first interaction and throughout their entire journey with your product, customer support is an ongoing conversation between your customers and your support team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

I have an Engeenering degree and have been in the Israeli tech scene for the past fifteen years, from a research and development leader, to a co-founder and CTO, to product leader. We partner with top law firms to ensure product and customer success, and as Director of Product, I’m responsible for platform and data products.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Our team can refer back to the personas, understand who is submitting the feedback, and have that more holistically shape their interpretation of the feedback. All our engineers, designers, and PMs are in the channel and can interact with this feedback in real time. This automation takes the initial persona-creation process one step further.

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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. In this context, influence refers to a PMs ability to achieve the end result they desire. Check out our breakdown of how to decode Product Management job titles. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

The code referred to a specific detection device, but there was no way the guard could have known how to use this code to locate the fire. It first told him what quadrant of the building might have a fire in it, ‘Attic Nave Sacristy’, and then a code: Like a double rainbow what does it mean? ZDA-110-3-15-1 What do you do?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a recent study by the Association of Product Professionals which interviewed over 50 non-product (CEO, CTO, VP, GM, EGM, COO) and product leaders, they found that senior executives “doubt the commercial skills of product managers [and therefore], define the scope and solution before handing over”.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Technical debt refers to the cost you accumulate by favoring easy and quick solutions over best practices in engineering. They need to understand the implications of the organization’s technology roadmap on the product roadmap. Stripe estimates that the total global impact of technical debt might be over $3 trillion.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many organizations, instead, refer to these individuals as Group Product Managers or Principal Product Managers. Image Credit: Transistor by Alexandra Manokhina Job Responsibilities and Duties Not every company with product management teams will have a Chief Product Officer.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. They reference the power of collaboration and don’t have self promotion on repeat. Subscribe now Looking back over your work life, what leaders stand out to you?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If some of the following observations are common in your organization, you might be experiencing a phenomenon often referred to as “cargo cult.” One of the well-known cargo cult examples with regard to technology was described by Richard Feynman: In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

” Recently, April sat with Ryan Toben, Senior Vice-President and General Manager for Gainsight in EMEA, and Mickey Alon, Gainsight’s Chief Technology Officer, to discuss product positioning, especially during an economic downturn. . What Product Positioning Is and Is Not.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 11, 2024

I use Kagi search , and beyond the core fact that, in stark contrast with Google, Kagi doesn’t suck, I’ve come to value its “Quick Answer” feature, which feeds search results through an LLM and generates an excellent summary with references.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

In reference to any team (work, school, sports, etc.), This is particularly important since dog sledding depends on all the sled dogs following the lead dog; this is the CEO of a company. Swing dogs (sometimes called point dogs) are right behind the lead dog. They swing the sled when the trail curves or turns.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 22, 2023

You learn to use stable references in callback functions, to be careful using Context, and so on. You can write some perfectly valid, but naive React code and it's going to have some footguns. We're so used to write idiomatic React code we don't even notice that anymore. But the list is not short, and it only grows.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2020

Additionally, the CTO gave us information on the technical limitations. Therefore they prefer to see the distance from a reference point (e.g. In order to get the full picture, we talked to different members of the management board, for example, the CEO, the Head of Marketing, and the Head of Product.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And if you don’t know the reference, that would be, the “5 Dysfunctions of a Team” sort of behavior where, rather than protecting my pillar, I really want to, instead, instill a group of common goals around what those silos used to be. We’re talking about the CTO, the CIO, someone in technology needs to be behind it, the CFO.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

How many times I refer this post to new PMs still surprises me. Highlighting common pitfalls for PMs embarking on data testing , this is a post I constantly reference when dealing with data. The best advice we heard at First Round’s CTO unconference. Author: First Round Review. Answer: The cost of maintaining new code.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

These are the business strategy , which is also referred to as corporate strategy , the product portfolio strategy , the technology strategy, and the product strategy , as well as the product roadmap , the technology roadmap, and the product backlog. Click on the picture to download the stack.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

In computing, the terms “master” and “slave” refer to the primary and secondary nodes in a database replication scheme. Master” and “slave” also refer to the gruesome practice of slavery. The letter got resounding support, including a rousing endorsement from our co-founder and CTO, Ciaran Lee. but, “how fast can we do this?”

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

We’re currently experiencing a wave of AI news stories, including: Uproar over artists’ work being used without permission by art AIs like Midjourney and DALL-E 2 A flood of ChatGPT stories, including the phenomenon of ChatGPT confidently presenting information that proves to be completely erroneous, and even hallucinating non-existent (..)

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Dharmesh Shah , CTO of HubSpot, encourages startup SaaS businesses to pay attention to what their customers are doing and cater to what can make them successful. The metric helps identify the number of loyal customers likely to refer and recommend your brand to others.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 14, 2019

” This refers to the bloated size UIViewControllers can grow to if you are not disciplined in factoring away functionality. It’s a lifecycle-aware observable, so when the observing object (like a Fragment or Activity) goes away, a reference to the observable is removed automatically.

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eG Innovations

APRIL 22, 2021

This is really a collection of links to other people’s real-world methods and experiences that I can reference if folks ask me for external independent data. In practice, most reference architecture seem to be looking to a few specific Azure families of instances, notably the D and F series, and the NV series when GPUs are required.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 18, 2019

These shortcuts have provided a helpful way to keep my notes organized and easy to understand when I reference them again. For convenience, I use aText to house all of these shortcuts. Here’s what my dashboard looks like. What’s great about these tools is that you can use them however they benefit you most.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

As a case in point, the team should prioritize creating enabling specifications that are most useful for regulatory compliance, reference information for product support, and for team members who don’t have domain knowledge. References. Conclusion. Jakobsen, C.R. and Jeff Sutherland, J. Jeff is the inventor and co-creator of Scrum.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO. Reference: Design Systems 101 by Nielsen Norman Group. “In my 10+ years of career at our company, I have never seen the global enterprise speaking a single language of XYZ design and ABC UI kit.”

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 30, 2019

The considerations outlined in this series are not comprehensive, and I recommend that, once you narrow it down to one or two partners, you do things like: Visit your potential partner’s office and meet some of their teams Call client references Collaboratively develop an engagement budget model and proposal.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 20, 2019

Sentence 1: Open with a personal reference that shows you’re tuned into your reader. I’ve laid out my four-sentence formula below: The winning four-sentence thank-you formula. Introduction: Greeting (Hi/Dear/Hello [Name]). Sentence 2: Explain why you’re writing the thank-you note.

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