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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% Are you a product manager? Startup founder?

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap. Rather than complaining to my manager, I decided I would step up and take responsibility for figuring out the product roadmap. That project led to my first cross-functional team.