People-First Product Leadership

MAY 14, 2025

I remember my first big product presentation. As I waited to speak with the exec team, my mind buzzed with voices: You got this. Think back to a time when you were about to present. In product, we constantly navigate user needs, tech constraints, and business goals. They work diligently to prevent pain or failure.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. When most people think of product development, they imagine an in-person experience. But remote work is here to stay, which means that teams must now focus on building those muscles.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. We presented to the Benchmark partnership on April 12. That’s when we presented the deck below. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team. for our community.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. ” Zach Berger, Technology Investor at Bain Capital. Creuzet went one step further and said that presenting investors with metrics that don’t mean much can be counterproductive to your pitch.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

(PRWEB) JUNE 01, 2020 – Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Security, a packaged product that helps organizations identify and address threats to their intellectual property and private information. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. Thanks to many, including Marco Innocenti and the team at Zoom, as well as Jay Nathan. We presented via audio and slides on a web meeting. Watch the recording here!

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

One of the few times a product manager really gets to take center stage and show the fruits of their labor is when they’re presenting the product roadmap. Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. That should shape what our presentations focus on and how we describe things.”

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? The steps include the following: Building your cross-functional team. Other methods?

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Roy Madden

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

With more than 1,000 organizations relying on Feedly Teams for connecting to the content they need to accelerate research, marketing, and sales, we are growing our customer success team to continue to deliver a 7-star onboarding and support experience. We take care of our team. WHY FEEDLY? Massive opportunity. INTERESTED?

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago. Illustrator.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company. So when you see a spike in demand, you can meet it, no matter what size your team is. “We We’re here for you.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 10, 2020

As Peter Thiel, founder of the data analytics company Palantir Technologies, once said, "'big data' really means 'dumb data.'" That is, until it's analyzed, organized, and presented by a data scientist. An effective data storyteller must have great communication, public speaking, presentation, and pedagogic (teaching) skills.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 25, 2025

Arkenea is a trusted, exclusively healthcare-focused software development firm with 13+ years of experience. During the 1900s, healthcare organizations started adopting tech to streamline workflow and improve productivity. But these companies opted for several developers for innovating applications for different applications.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. Some UX agencies in San Francisco have real industry legends running them and can present hilariously prestigious clients. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Humility versus awards.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

There are also some other simpler and more technical guidelines to follow: Include your contact information—your name, address, and phone number. You can ensure that every body paragraph hits home by: Reading up on what the employer is looking for, both in the job role and in a team member, so that you can display what they want.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. I felt this incredible intense pressure from the team and also from within myself to launch what we had built.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. So I went from running product to running product and development.”

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Fust prevailed.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered why, despite listening intently to your customers and diligently building the features they ask for, your product still struggles to gain traction? In product development, the type of evidence we rely on to build our products can make or break our strategy. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle?

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