The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Lean startup practitioners document these sorts of strategic hypotheses in a lean canvas. As product teams consider features or user stories to implement, experiments to run, and other roadmap items, they should always evaluate and prioritize them in terms of the product strategy. . #6

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 2, 2024

Let me guess: You have a high-priority project on your roadmap right now to add (more) AI features to your product. A recent survey by Emergence Capital found that 60% of companies have already integrated generative AI into their products, and another 24% have it on their roadmap. You’re in good company.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I remember when a CTO asked me for a more detailed, solution-oriented roadmap. Why did I resist this ask from the CTO? The “solid roadmap”. The startup that’s “killing it” (but not). Leaders/managers frequently make the mistake of glossing over uncertainty because they are concerned that people will be demotivated.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Todd has been tinkering and doodling since he was four years old.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

Michael Ciano, CTO with 20+ years of experience talks about building trust as a key for leveraging technology in healthcare, building a robust business architecture and building an organization culture that fosters innovation. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It means thinking about roadmapping , team structure, how you plan, all sorts of things in product that have a big impact on how the team interacts with measurement and analytics.” I’ve enjoyed working in UX research , in startups, so I imagine what I’m doing for Amplitude as a product. I enjoy product.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In my prior article I discussed my favorite alternative to conventional product roadmaps. In most startups, the product person is the CEO (or at least one of the co-founders). Q: What about outcome-based roadmaps? In truth, it’s not hard to map 1:1 a set of OKR’s to an outcome-based roadmap.

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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. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. No Market Need.

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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. For me, I’ve been a part of startups using only some variant of scrum. The product backlog I managed grew daily.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

I got there via an acquisition of a startup I founded. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. Some people want to be a product manager because they want to "own the roadmap," but I think it's a lot less glamorous than that. Tell us about how you broke into product management.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. Findings Sessions : A review meeting to decode findings, gauge their business implications, and chalk out a roadmap for the future. Our goal is to build a decent understanding of your business, your product, and your technology.

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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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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. This isn’t to suggest a product development process that’s basically a free-for-all, where there are no deadlines, roadmaps, or plans of what will be built.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” — Matias Woloski , co-founder and CTO of Auth0 “The trial is about their work. ” Throughout the year, the Gumroad team marks certain tasks on their roadmap as “good for trialers” and then they assign these tasks to interview candidates. So we just pay them to do it!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 9, 2020

For example, imagine that a CTO is looking to develop and bring to market a software product. They must develop their program's roadmaps and strategies while also leading all the teams that ultimately execute them. As such, much of their day-to-day workflow is determined by the strategies and roadmaps that are defined by their TPM.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 22, 2024

Start by defining your long-term career goals and envision where you want to be in 5 or 10 years. Break these goals down into smaller, actionable milestones, similar to setting quarterly objectives for a product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

link] As a product manager, you often find yourself switching between contexts as well, often between short-term project management and long term roadmap and product planning. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. At mid to later stage, this is more likely a Senior Engineer.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | HelpBar by Chameleon —the free in-app universal search solution built for SaaS — Tom Conrad is the CEO of Zero and on the board of Sonos.

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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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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your bi-weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Not going to lie, PMs do work alone on many occasions, from figuring out the roadmap to dealing with customers. Their roadmap is fuelled by 3 sources: a.

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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. On the flip side, that’s also just a very crappy user experience.

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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. On the flip side, that’s also just a very crappy user experience.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

When the biggest problem Product Managers face is setting roadmap priorities based on market feedback, it’s symptomatic of the underlying practices and tools. The Lean Startup movement put particular emphasis on throwing out hypothesis to test with data. So more startups are ramping up the sales learning curve.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

I meet with one to two feature teams a week to review their recent progress and the roadmap. In this case, I can see our CTO, Mickey, is actively using our Engagement feature. Being a good CEO is less about telling people what to do and more about giving them what they need. But what does a CEO need? In reviewing a feature.

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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?

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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. Product Manager.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. Rich has been ‘the product guy’ at 6 startups, and now runs his own consulting business. Read on to find out who is returning and to watch their previous knockout talks. 1 // Mikey Trafton.

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Arkenea

MAY 12, 2025

As John Reynolds, CTO of a San Francisco-based fintech startup, noted: “ Arkenea’s team in India is more responsive and communicative than some local vendors we’ve worked with. Their detailed documentation and clear updates actually improved our internal processes.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

We’d all transitioned to working from home instead of being in the office and figuring that out. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right? Ellen: Then we also started introducing outcomes to our priority roadmap. Teresa: Was that the way it was? Where did it go from there?

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritize your roadmap to serve these users: Finally, prioritize new product features and improvements to the existing product experience that directly address the demands of your HXCs and on-the-fence users.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. 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. Social JTBD.

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