Fri.Jul 21, 2017

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The Heartbeat of Product by Nate Walkingshaw

Mind the Product

Nate Walkingshaw is the Chief Experience Officer for Pluralsight, where he is responsible for Product, User Experience, Engineering, and Content, and the co-author of Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams. But he started his career as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) at $7.14 an hour, and in this heartfelt talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 he shares how his emergency medical experience and training set him up for success

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Expanding Your Software Business in China and Emerging Markets

Revulytics

So you’ve been tasked with expanding your software business into new and emerging markets. Your initial excitement for this challenge and opportunity may quickly be quashed by the chorus of “but software piracy is entrenched in emerging markets!”. You quickly reach for the most recent BSA study and see “rates of unlicensed software installation” (what they used to call “piracy rates”) that may make your stomach sink: 70 percent in China. 78 percent in Vietnam. 64 percent in Russia. 58 percent in